15. Robert Zydenbos | The Life of Sanskrit Traditions

My guest this month is Robert Zydenbos, who is Professor of Modern Indology at the LMU Munich. (Full disclosure: we thus are colleagues!) His first point of contact with Indian languages and philosophies was through Collier's Encyclopaedia. It introduced him to such ideas as rebirth, a concept found in various traditions (see e.g. here, here or here) His first degree was in Indian Studies at the University of Utrecht, at an institute that developed into a centre of Tantric Studies and that h...