The autocrats in Moscow and Beijing believe that the west is divided, decadent and in decline. They have to be proved wrong. Otherwise, all the rhetoric about freedom is merely noise before defeat. (Andrew Rawnsley in The Guardian)

Home page of Prof. Robert Zydenbos

(professor of Modern Indology, Institute of Indology and Tibetology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)

at the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, München

[Update: May 10th, 2022]

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The opinions that are expressed on these pages do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the LMU Munich.

“If you don’t say what you think, then you kill your unborn self.” (Jordan Peterson)

The institute page of Prof. Zydenbos at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institute for Indology and Tibetology) can be found here.

Further information can be found on Prof. Zydenbos' personal pages here.

Please expect that also in the summer term 2022, due to the persisting virus crisis, many of the courses offered in the Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie will be offered online.

For the courses currently offered by Prof. Zydenbos, please visit his personal web pages at http://lmu.zydenbos.net.

Overview:

Reading list (German): Basics of Indian worldviews (27.02.2022)

How to write Kannada on a Computer

A Manual of Modern Kannada

The use of Unicode fonts for Indological purposes on Apple computers with the Mac OSX operating system

Advice on computer use (in German, mainly for the students of the LMU)

Publications

New publication (November 2020):

The new A Manual of Modern Kannada, which is used in the course at the LMU, is available in book form as well as in PDF format as an Open Access publication: https://crossasia-books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/xasia/catalog/book/736 – A book review has appeared in the Kannada-language newspaper Vijaya Karnataka of 28 January 2021.

Please also see the list of corrigenda.

A note about electronic communications:

A few slight updates, 14-I-2019:

An Overview of the classes currently offered by Prof. Zydenbos can be found here: http://lmu.zydenbos.net/lehrveranstaltungen.html

For detailed information about the course “Kannada-I” (Kannada for beginners) please click here.

Concise information about the course Kannada-I is found here, about the course Kannada-Lektüre is found here.

I advise all students to read the information about the use of computers. Instead of in one large file (as previously), the information is now divided in three (in German):

Students are advised to use Facebook, Twitter and other such so-called ‘social media’ with great caution.

How to write Kannada on a Computer (information in German)

Die Verwendung von Kannada-Schriftzeichen auf verschiedenen Computersystemen

Die Verwendung von Kannada-Schriftzeichen unter macOS (Stand: 15.8.2019)

Die Verwendung von Kannada-Schriftzeichen unter Windows™ (Stand: 6.10.2020)

Installieren einer Kannada-Tastaturbelegung unter Linux (Beispiel anhand von Linux Mint)

Prof. Zydenbos' list of publications (not entirely complete, updated 4-XII-2020) can be read here as a PDF file.

2010

Information about the use of Unicode fonts for Indological purposes on Apple computers with the Mac OSX operating system can be found here. This is not quite up to date, but it may be useful nonetheless.

2006

On Febr. 7th, 2006 a short article appeared in the newspaper Münchner Merkur about Jainism, the Mahāmastakābhiṣeka of Shravanabelagola and R. Zydenbos’ research trip. A digital scan of the article in JPG format (size: approx. 1.1 MB) is downloadable here.

Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos