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Rajan Khatiwoda
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Rajan Khatiwoda
D.o.B: 26.10.1984 Nationality: Nepalese
Research Interests:
Sanskrit Language and Literature; Indian Philosophy; Åšaivism; Buddhist Sanskrit; Pali Language, Literature and History; Buddhist Culture; Buddhist Logic; Manuscriptology; Epigraphy; Documents; Ancient and Modern History; Ancient and modern Law; Text Editing.
Previous Position:
Research Assistance/Cataloguer (August 2003 to March 2013)
Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project (NGMCP), Nepal Research
Centre (NRC), Kathmandu Branch
University education:
MA (Honours) in Classical Indology (2008)
Nepal Sanskrit University, Balmeeki Vidyapeeth, Kathmandu.
BA (Honours) in Classical Indology and English Literature (2005)
Nepal Sanskrit University, Balmeeki Vidyapeeth, Kathmandu.
IA (Honours) in Classical Indology and English Literature (2002)
Nepal Sanskrit University, Balmeeki Vidyapeeth, Kathmandu.
School Leaving Certificate Level (2000) Kathmandu.
Teaching experience:
Series of tutorials on Indology, KÄvya, Sanskrit Language and Paleography for visiting graduate students in relation to the NGMCP, Nepal Research Centre. (E.g. Tutorials on Paleography and the DohakoÅ›a; Tutorials on Paleography, Manuscriptology, Ancient Nepalese History and ÅšÄkta literature; Readings on the DÅ«rgasaptaÅ›ati and ÅšÄktapramoda.
Workshops attended:
Workshop on the MaṇicÅ«dajÄtaka, University of Pune, India, 1-5 September 2009. Coordinator: Dr. Albrecht Hanisch, Nepal Research Centre, Kathmandu.
Early Tantra Workshop, École Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Pondicherry, India, 23 – 24 September 2010. Coordinator: Prof. Harunaga Isaacson, Universty of Hamburg, Germany and Prof. Dominic Goodall, École Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), France
Workshop on Indian Buddhist Tantric Literature, Rangjung Yesche Institute, Bauddha, Kathmandu, 7 February-2 March, 2011. Coordinator: Prof. Harunaga Isaacson, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Spoken Languages: Nepali, English, Hindi, Tibetan (basic)
Scripts: Old Newari, Varieties of Newari, Maithili, Licchavi, Devanagari, Tibetan
Selected publications
“AcyutÄá¹£á¹akavyÄkhyÄ by VÄcaspati Panta: A testimony to Nepalese Scholarship,†in Abhilekha, National Archives (Kathmandu, 2012).
“A Newly Discovered Manuscript of the PrakÄ«rṇakacaityalaká¹£aṇa, an Old Sanskrit Treatise dealing with the Architectural Characteristic Features and Symbolic Representation of StÅ«pas, â€, in Journal of the Nepal Research Centre, (forthcoming).
