HASP - Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing

📢Neue #openaccess Publikation! „Kleines Gatha-Lesebuch“ von dem Avesta-Forscher Karl Hoffmann, aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben von Bernhard Forssman.
Das Buch enthält Stücke aus den "Gathas", Übersetzungen, Anmerkungen, ein vollständiges Vokabular, u.a.
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Book cover showing pots with paint in various colours.

It highlights novel ways that Tibetan & Himalayan worlds can be made relevant beyond their local contexts. Edited by @tibetcurator.bsky.social @trineb.bsky.social and @wiselange.bsky.social
Available in #openaccess at doi.org/10.11588/has...

📣Out now - AMONG TIBETAN MATERIALITIES has just been published. The book opens up new sources, methodologies and frameworks for studying, thinking and writing about material culture, materials and materiality in Tibet & the Himalayas. (...)

Looking forward to this collaboration with #EASAS

Visit us today at the #ecsas2025 conference at #neueuniversität in Heidelberg! We look forward to engaging with South Asian scholars from all over the world! ➡️Also take a look at a selection of our HASP publications📚!
➡️Check out the conference program: ecsas2025.com

📢New #openaccess Publication! “Routes, Patterns, Ideologies” (eds. Dębicka-Borek/ Peres) explores Hindu sacred spaces, focusing on the relationships between sites as a crucial dimension of their theological and social significance.
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We're at the DOT (Deutscher Orientalistentag) in Erlangen all week presenting our latest #openaccess publications and services! Together with @fid4sa.bsky.social & @menalib.bsky.social. Visit us daily in the university library!📚

📢Vacancy
Project-based editorial contractor, freelance
We are looking for a German-speaking Editorial contractor to support our partnership with the new German Diamond Service Centre
Applications due: 26th September 2025
#DOAJVacancy #OpenAccess #DOAJTeam
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📢New & #openaccess! „Sūryās Hochzeit: Kohärenz von Text und Ritual im Ṛgveda (10.85)”. Anne Keßler-Persaud questions the fundamental assumption about the Sūryāsūkta’s degree of textuality with the help of text-linguistic and hermeneutic methods.
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DOT 2025 - Konferenzprogramm und Konferenz-App Vorläufiges Programm des 35. DOT Über den Konferenz-Planer können alle Programminformationen abgerufen werden – WICHTIG: Wenn Sie an der Tagung teilnehmen möchten, müssen Sie vorher online über die…

📢FID4SA & @hasp-hd.bsky.social auf dem DOT 2025! Vom 8. bis 12.9. findet in Erlangen der 35. Deutsche Orientalistentag(DOT) statt. Gemeinsam mit dem FID Nahost @menalib.bsky.social sind wir vor Ort und freuen uns auf regen Austausch mit unserer Fachcommunity!
➡️ www.dot2025.fau.de/konferenzpro...

Out now - the latest volume of the JPTS in #openaccess. Volume 36(2025) is available here:
hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/jpt...

We have just published the latest volume of the JPTS. Volume 36 (2025) is available in #openaccess here: hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/jpt...

📢We are delighted to announce that volumes 20-35 (1994-2024) of the "Journal of the Pali Text Society" are now available #openaccess on HASP! 📚This project was made possible in close collaboration with the Pali Text Society (founded 1881) ➡️Enjoy reading! hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/jpts

Book cover of "Here and Elsewhere". The cover shows a detail from a pilgrimage map depicting various sacred sites and deities.

📣We are pleased to announce the #openaccess publication of Here and Elsewhere: Transposed deities ... by V. Lazzaretti. The book offers a grounded study of crucial modes of sanctification and imagination of Hindu geographies: spatial transposition and substitute pilgrimage. doi.org/10.11588/has...

Six book covers for titles that will be published in the first half of 2025 by Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing

What a line-up! 📚Are you interested in sacred sites in #India or early modern literatures in North India or in Sowa Rigpa artisanship across the #Himalayas? Take a look at some of our forthcoming titles. hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/prev... And best of all - they'll be #openaccess

Dark-blue cover of the current issue of the journal Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies.

📢 We are pleased to announce the publication of Nidan 9.2 (2024). The thematic focus of the issue is "Material Religion, Assemblage and the Agency of Things in South Asia". All articles are available in #openaccess and can be read and downloaded here: hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/nid...

Authors and Rights in Publishing: Perspectives on Contracts, Licenses, Rights Retention, AI, and TDM Registration open for the symposium on Authors and Rights in Publishing On February 18, 2025, Utrecht University and Leiden University will organize a free symposium on publishing...

Authors and Rights in Publishing: Perspectives on Contracts, Licenses, Rights Retention, AI, and TDM - Bookings.uu.nl - Utrecht University https://bookings.uu.nl/event/4299145?

DFG fördert nationale Servicestelle für Diamond Open Access

Die #DFG fördert eine nationale Servicestelle für Diamond #OpenAccess zur Erhöhung der Leistungsfähigkeit deutscher Infrastrukturen. Ziele sind gleichberechtigter Zugang zum wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesen und dessen Weiterentwicklung. Weitere Infos: ⬇️ www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Orange book cover with white band of Harmonie und Konflikt in China. Volume 9 of the Jahrbuch der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien.

📣 In co-operation with the Deutsche Vereinigung für #Chinastudien, we were able to publish volumes 9 and 10 of the yearbook. "Raum und Grenze in den Chinastudien" doi.org/10.11588/has... and "Harmonie und Konflikt in China" doi.org/10.11588/has... are now available in #openaccess

Thema and world needs: exploring bibliodiversity through open access book subjects | Insights Insights: the UKSG journal (2048-7754) aims to support UKSG's mission to connect the information community and encourage the exchange of ideas on scholarly communication, specifically to:Provide a forum for the communication and exchange of ideas between the many stakeholders in the global knowledge community.Disseminate news, information and publications, and raise awareness of services that support the scholarly information sector.From 1988 to 2011, Insights was published as Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community. Serials has been fully digitised and is openly accessible at serials.uksg.org.

Thema and world needs: exploring bibliodiversity through open access book subjects | Insights https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.679

Producing Buddhist Sutras in Ninth-Century Tibet The result of the authors’ painstaking documentation of over 1,500 Tibetan copies of the Sutra of Limitless Life from Dunhuang, now kept in the British Library’s Stein Collection, this book provides a...

Dotson and Doney's "Producing Buddhist Sutras in Ninth-Century Tibet" is out and open access. This will undoubtedly be the best work on copying Buddhist texts in Dunhuang and will be a foundational work for any comparative study of scriptoria. #medievalsky #manuscript doi.org/10.1515/9783...

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