Publications of Prof. Dr. Robert Zydenbos

Incompletely updated: May 13, 2018

Subjects:

philosophy: 1, 3, 5, 8, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27, 30, 31, 34, 43, 45, 51, 52, 60, 61, 62, 63, 66

religion: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 43, 44, 52, 58, 59, 61, 62, 63, 66

history: 7, 9, 10, 37, 39, 41, 42, 44, 46, 57, 58

Jainism: 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35, 39, 43, 48, 50, 51, 52, 58, 59

Hinduism: 2, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 36, 37, 40, 44, 45, 53, 54, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66

Buddhism: 51

Kannada: 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 31, 32, 38, 46, 47, 48, 49, 56

Sanskrit: 1, 26, 27, 29, 30, 36, 37, 41, 42, 44

Prakrit: 8, 15, 18, 26

Tamil: 12, 55

Telugu: 67

translations: 2, 6, 16, 25, 39

reviews: 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67

Monographs

1. – (1983): Mokṣa in Jainism, according to Umāsvāti. Wiesbaden: Fr. Steiner Verlag. (Beiträge zur Südasien-Forschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg. Band 83.)

2. – (1986): G. Chemparathy. God en het lijden. Translation of God and Suffering, by Robert J. Zydenbos. Leiden: E.J. Brill (in Dutch).

3. – (1993): The Concept of Divinity in Jainism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

4. – (1996): The Calf Became An Orphan. A study in contemporary Kannada fiction. Pondicherry: Institut français de Pondichéry / École française d’Extrême-Orient.

5. – (2006): Jainism Today and Its Future. München: Manya Verlag.

6. – (2009): [English translation of a Kannada novel:] Shantinatha Desai, Vikṣēpa. München: Manya Verlag.

Articles

7. – (1981): “Bhadrabāhu and the Śravaṇabeḷagoḷa kṣetra.” In: Gommateshvara Commemoration Volume, ed. T.G. Kalghatgi (Sravanabelagola: S.D.J.M.I. Managing Committee), pp. 19-24.

8. – (1984): “A Note on the Role of Morality in Jaina Yoga.” Tulasī-Prajñā (Ladnun, Rajasthan, India) 9 (10-12), pp. 33-37.

9. – (1985): “Jainism Endangered: the view of the medieval Kannada poet Brahmasiva.” The South Asian Digest of Regional Writing (Heidelberg) 11, pp. 174-86.

10. – (1985): “Maisūru mattu sāṃskṛtika jīvana – nānu kaṃḍante.” In Eḍatore, souvenir volume of the 1985 Mysore District Literary Conference. (K.R. Nagara. Kannada Sahitya Parishattu). pp. 16-21 (in Kannada).

11. – (1986): “Prāmāṇika lēkhaka.” In Nirañjana abhinandana, ed. B.I. Bhatta. (Puttur: Karnataka Sangha), pp. 186-88 (in Kannada).

12. – (1987): “The Jaina Nun Kavunti.” Bulletin d’études indiennes (Paris) 5, pp. 387-417.

13. – (1987): “Samānate mattu dharma” (Equality and Religion). Samanvaya (Mysore, India) 9, pp. 2-4 and 47-49 (in Kannada).

14. – (1988): “Some Introductory Notes on the Study of Kannada Folktales.” The South Asian Digest of Regional Writing (Heidelberg, Germany) 9, pp. 1-11.

15. – (1988): “Kundakundāchārya: Some Remarks.” Gommaṭavāṇi (Sravanabelagola, India) 3, pp. 7-9.

16. – (1988): “Udagamaṃḍala”, “Dūrada nereyavanu”, “Bērobba” and “Lōḍiya udyānavanagaḷalli”, four Mexican Spanish poems by Octavio Paz, translated into Kannada by Robert J. Zydenbos and Vijaya Dabbe. Aniketana (Bangalore) 1, pp. 102-4 (in Kannada).

17. – (1989): (with Vijaya Dabbe): “Akka Mahadevi.” Manushi (Delhi) 50-51-52, pp. 39-44.

18. – (1990): “Kundakundācāryara bagge kelavu anisikegaḷu.” In: Śrī Kundakunda praśasti, ed. M. Jayachandra. (Bangalore: Prakrit Bharathi Education Trust), pp. 1-8 (in Kannada).

19. – (1990): “Jaina Influences in the Formation of Dvaita Vedānta.” In: Contacts Between Cultures: South Asia, volume 2, ed. K.I. Koppedrayer. (Lewiston / Queenston / Lampeter, Canada: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990), pp. 293-298.

20. – (1991): [Reprint of the preceding. In: Jain Journal (Calcutta) 25, pp. 103-9.]

21. – (1991): [Reprint of the preceding. In: Jainthology, ed. G.C. Lalwani (Calcutta: Jain Bhavan), pp.178-184.]

22. – (1990): “The Jaina Goddess Padmāvatī.” In: Contacts Between Cultures: South Asia, volume 2, ed. K.I. Koppedrayer. (Lewiston / Queenston / Lampeter, Canada: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990), pp. 257-262.

23. – (1992): [Reprint of the above. In: Jinamanjari (Toronto) 4.1 (April 1992), pp. 50-58.]

24. – (1991): editorial assistance in the Kannada section of Women Writing in India – 600 B.C. to the Present. 2 vols., ed. S. Tharu and K. Lalitha. (New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York.)

25. – (1993): “Gefangen.” A short story, translated from the Kannada into German by Robert J. Zydenbos. In: Südasien-Anthologie, ed. G.D. Sontheimer and H. Werny. (Stuttgart: Steiner), pp. 133-42. (Beiträge zur Südasien-Forschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg. Band 140.)

26. – (1991): (with B.N. Sumitra Bai): “The Jaina Mahābhārata.” In: Essays on the Mahābhārata, ed. A. Sharma. (Leiden: E.J. Brill), pp. 251-271.

27. – (1991): “On the Jaina Background of Dvaitavedānta.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 19, pp. 249-271.

28. – (1994): “Jaina Goddesses in Kannada Literature.” In: Studies in South Asian Devotional Literature: Research Papers 1988-1991, ed. A.W. Entwistle and F. Mallison (Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient / New Delhi: Manohar), pp. 135-145.

29. – (1994): “Some Examples from Mādhva Hagiography.” In: According to Tradition. Hagiographical Writing in India, ed. W.M. Callewaert and R. Snell. (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz), pp. 169-189.

30. – (1997): “Is Krishna Seen Or Not? Madhvācārya on Bhagavadgītā 12:1.” Journal of Vaisnava Studies 5 (3), pp. 55-63.

31. – (1997): “Virasaivism, Caste, Revolution et cetera.” Review article of J.P. Schouten, Revolution of the Mystics. The social aspects of Virasaivism. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society 117.3 (1997), pp. 525-535.

32. – (1998): contribution to the column ‘The Involved Outsider’. In: Aniketana – a journal of Kannada language & literature X, 2 (Oct.-Dec. 1998), pp. 149-157.

33. – (1999): “The Ritual Giving of Food to a Digambara Renunciant.” In: Approaches to Jaina Studies: Philosophy, Logic, Rituals and Symbols, ed. N. Wagle and O. Qvarnström (Toronto: University of Toronto, Centre for South Asian Studies), pp. 291-303.

34. – (1999): “Jainism as the Religion of Non-Violence.” In: Violence Denied. Violence, Non-violence and the Rationalization of Violence in South Asian Cultural History, ed. K.R. van Kooij and J.E.M. Houben (Leiden: Brill, 1999), pp. 185-210.

35. – (2000): “Göttinnenverehrung im Jainismus.” In: Aspekte des Weiblichen in der indischen Kultur, ed. U. Roesler (Swisttal-Odendorf: Verlag Indica und Tibetica), pp. 145-189.

36. – (2001): “Vādirāja (1480-1600) – saint de la tradition mādhva au Karnataka.” In: Constructions hagiographiques dans le monde indien – entre mythe et histoire, ed. F. Mallison (Paris: Honoré Champion).

37. – (2001): “Madhva and the Reform of Vaiṣṇavism in Karnataka.” In: Charisma and Canon. Essays on the Religious History of the Indian Subcontinent, ed. V. Dalmia, A. Malinar and M. Christof (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), pp. 113-128.

38. – (2001): [two encyclopedia articles about the Kannada writers Anupama Niranjana and Vaidehi in:] Who’s Who in Contemporary Women’s Writing, ed. J.E. Miller (London: Routledge), pp. 235-236 and 331.

39. – (2001): R.N. Dandekar. “Ādinātha Nēminātha Upādhye.” In: Upādhye smṛti saṃcaya, ed. H.M. Nayak a.o. (Bangalore: Panditaratna A. Shanthiraja Shastry Trust), pp. 83-87. Translation of the biographical article of the same title, from English to Kannada.

40. – (2002): [encyclopedia article about ‘Virasaivism’ in:] Religions of the World, ed. J. Gordon Melton and M. Baumann. (Santa Barbara: ABC Clio), pp. 1399-1400.

41. – (2004): “Sanskrit: Ewige Sprache der Götter, wiedergeboren und noch immer da.” In: Sprachtod und Sprachgeburt, ed. P. Schrijver and P. Mumm. (Bremen: Hempen Verlag), pp. 278-300.

42. – (2004): “Prācīnabhāratādhyayaneṣu yūropīyānāṃ samasyāḥ.” The Mysore Orientalist, 2004 (Mysore) (in Sanskrit), pp. 189-196.

43. – (2006): “Yoga im Jainismus.” In: Yoga Journal. Organ des Schweizer Yogaverbandes Nr. 23 (2006), pp. 6-13.

44. – (2007): “Madhva and the Reform of Vaiṣṇavism in Karnataka.” In: The Oxford India Hinduism Reader, ed. V. Dalmia, and H. von Stietencron (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), pp. 151-168. [repr. of 2001]

45. – (2009): “Delving Further Into Dvaitavedanta.” Review article of Roque Mesquita, The Concept of Liberation While Still Alive in the Philosophy of Madhva. Münchener Indologische Zeitschrift I (2009), pp. 260-272.

46. – (2009): “The Beginnings of Biographical Writing in Southern India in the Tenth Century: The Ādipurāṇa of Paṃpa,” in: Biographie als Weltliteratur. Eine Bestandsaufnahme der biographischen Literatur im 10. Jahrhundert, ed. Susanne Enderwitz and Wolfgang Schamoni (Heidelberg: Mattes Verlag), pp. 121-134.

47. – (2009): [50 articles on Kannada literature, in the third edition of Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (in German)] (Stutgart / Weimar: J.B. Metzler).

48. – (2010): “Hampanā and Karnatakan Jainism.” In: Nalini Balbir (ed.), Svasti. Essays in Honour of Prof. Hampa Nāgarājaiah for his 75th Birthday (Krishnapuradoddi: K.S. Muddappa Smaraka Trust), pp. 33-34.

49. – (2012): “Kannada Poetry.” In: Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman (eds.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th edition (Princeton: Princeton University Press), p. 767.

50. – (2015): “The Significance of Karnataka for the Study of Jainism.” In: Luitgard Soni and Jayandra Soni (eds.), Sanmati. Essays felicitating Professor Hampa Nagaraiah on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday (Bengaluru: Sapna Book House), pp. 449-451.

51. – (2018): “A Ghost in the Background: Buddhism in South India in the Thirteenth Century.” In: Saddharmāmṛtam. Festschrift für Jens-Uwe Hartmann zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. Olivier von Criegern, Gudrun Melzer and Johannes Schneider, pp. 561-572 (Wien: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien Universität Wien).

52. – (forthcoming): “Jainism as the Religion of Non-Violence.” In: Ethics of War and Violence, ed. Asa Kasher (London: Routledge). [repr. of 1999]

53. – (forthcoming): Online article for Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism on ‘Mahādēviyakka’.

54. – (forthcoming): Three online articles for the Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Hinduism and Tribal Religions (Springer Science+Business Media), ed. by Arvind Sharma, on ‘Vīraśaivism”, ‘Basava’ and ‘Liṅgāyata’.

Reviews

55. – (1983): review of H. Tieken, Sangam over helden en minnaars. International Journal of Tamil Studies (Madras) 23, pp. 102-8.

56. – (1996): review of the German translation of U.R. Anantha Murthy’s Kannada novel Samskara by G. Schneider. in: Asiatische Studien / Études asiatiques 3, pp. 684-7.

57. – (1997): review of Rajeshwari Ghose (ed.), In Quest of a Secular Symbol: Ayodhya and After. In: International Journal of Hindu Studies I (3), pp. 611-2.

58. – (2000): review of John Cort (ed.), Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History. In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68/2 (2000), pp. 403-406.

59. – (2001): review of James Laidlaw, Riches and Renunciation: Religion, Economy and Society among the Jains. In: Journal of Asian Studies 60:4 (November 2001), pp. 1226-1227.

60. – (2006): review of D. Sharma, An Introduction to Madhva Vedanta. In: Philosophy East and West vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 665-670.

61. – (2007): review of G. Oberhammer, Materialien zur Geschichte der Rāmānuja-Schule VIII: Zur Eschatologie der Rāmānuja-Schule vor Veṅkaṭanātha. In: Nagoya Studies in Indian Culture and Buddhism 26 (2007), pp. 188-191.

62. – (2010): review of Roque Mesquita, Madhva: Viṣṇutattvanirṇaya. Annotierte Übersetzung mit Studie and Madhvas Zitate aus den Purāṇas und dem Mahābhārata. Eine analytische Zusammenstellung nicht identifizierbarer Quellenzitate in Madhvas Werken nebst Übersetzung und Anmerkungen. In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens LII-LIII (2009-2010), pp. 329-332.

63. – (2012): review of Arvind Sharma, Hinduism as a Missionary Religion. In: Journal of Hindu Studies (2012) 5 (3), pp. 309-311.

64. – (2014): review of Antonio Rigopoulos, The Mahānubhāvs. In: Religious Studies Review vol. 40 no.3 (September 2014), p. 171.

65. – (2015): review of Jessica Frazer, The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies. In: Religious Studies Review vol. 41 no.1 (March 2015), p. 34.

66. – (forthcoming): review of Andreas Bigger, Rita Krajnc, Annemarie Mertens, Markus Schüpbach and Heinz Werner Wessler (eds.), Release from Life – Release in Life. Indian Perspectives of Individual Liberation. To appear in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung.

67. – (forthcoming): review of V. Narayana Rao and D. Shulman, Śrīnātha – The Poet Who Made Gods and Kings. To appear in: International Journal of Hindu Studies.

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