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Vaishnavism course

Two New Courses: Vaishnavism and Colonial Hinduism

September 20 2022
Over the Summer our Course Development Board has worked hard to give us two new courses for the upcoming term: Vaishnavism (by Dr Måns Broo) and Colonial Hinduism by (Dr Amiya Sen). Vaishnavism Vaishnavism is one of the major denominations of Hinduism and has had an enormous...
Guru in Hindu traditions

Guru Online Weekend School

August 18 2022
Enrolments are now open for our newest Online Weekend School – The Guru in Hindu Traditions. The word "guru" is thrown around a lot, often ironically, sometimes for comic effect. This makes it the type of misunderstood topic that our tutors aim to make sense of –...
Prof. Gavin Flood

Welcoming Prof. Gavin Flood to the Team

July 4 2022
In 2008, the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies started teaching online with a single course: Understanding Hindu Identity. By 2016 we'd grown this to seven. We'd discovered that there's a real need for solid, accessible, and unbiased teaching on Hinduism backed up with specially written notes by...

Kathmandu Summer School

June 1 2022
The team at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies have produced a Two Week Study programme in Kathmandu. The programme allows students to engage deeply with the traditions, practices, foods, architecture, philosophies, and people of Nepal. All are welcome to apply to the programme. ECTS accreditation can...

Free Talk: Importance of Hindu Studies

November 16 2021
A vital part of our onlinne course program is our regular Zoom sessions. These are available to all students enrolled in a term, but sometimes we get one that's so interesting we have to share it more widely. This term we invited OCHS Director/Founder, Shaunaka Rishi Das,...
New Mahabharata course

Our Newest Course: Mahabharata – India’s Epic

September 5 2021
As many of our longstanding students will know, the Mahabharata is a topic dear to Dr Sutton's heart. For years now he has wanted to bring his nearly five decades of reading, studying, and teaching of this epic text to bear on creating an all new course....

Pipelines and Pathways

February 1 2021
For the past year or so, our freshly minted Course Development Board has been working hard to guide new courses through the pipeline to completion. They've given us Women in Hinduism and our new Yoga Sutras course. But you may ask: what have they done for us...

Lockdown Stories: A Talk by the Director of the OCHS

January 18 2021
As we begin a new year, a new strain of virus, and a new lockdown, some of us may think 2020 was not so bad after all. What is clear is the fact that isolation and social distancing are a new reality we can't avoid. We know...
Yoga Sutras

Sneak Preview: Exploring the Yoga Sutras

December 14 2020
To celebrate the launch of Exploring the Yoga Sutras, the newest course on our Yoga Studies Pathway, we're sharing a chapter from the course-book and a video lecture looking at some of the sutras from the Samadhi Pada. Enjoy! Download chapter two of the notes. https://player.vimeo.com/video/477686834 Click...
The Truth Of Yoga

Interview Between Dr Raj Balkaran and Daniel Simpson

December 3 2020
As part of his wide-ranging and informative podcast series, New Books in Hindu Studies, Dr Raj Balkaran interview Daniel Simpson on his new book, The Truth of Yoga. Raj and Daniel are two of our best (and best-liked) tutors so this is of special interest to the...

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