Sanskrit Launch Pad Webinar
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Launch Pad Webinar on Sanskrit Learning
Chinmaya International Foundation welcomes you to a 4-day launch pad webinar on Sanskrit Learning.
Why this Webinar?
Sanskrit is regarded as the sacred language of Bharata and a link language to connect with the South East Asian countries. For thousands of years, this language has ruled the religious, philosophical, social and scientific culture of Bharatiya/Indian Knowledge Systems (BKS/IKS). This sonorous language, no wonder, was the favourite of poets and authors for millennia.
Sanskrit learning can happen in multiple ways – the most common being the spoken version and the written version. Various institutes and organisations aim at educating beginners in either conversational Sanskrit or talking about the literature (sahitya) in Sanskrit. There are other ways too such as appreciating performing arts, paintings, musical concerts, and sculptures with the aid of foundational Sanskrit.
This launch pad webinar aims to:
- Create an awareness in every Indian about the antiquity and authority of Sanskrit in every sphere of learning
- Refute the narrative that Sanskrit is a ‘dead’ language
- Initiate the participant into the fun in learning Sanskrit
It takes a systemic approach to make everyone feel proud to have inherited this language the mother of many regional Indian languages.
In this workshop you will learn:
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- The significance and uniqueness of the Sanskrit language
- To exemplify blend of wisdom, and practical spoken aspect of Sanskrit language
- How to begin learning Sanskrit language
- Debunk the myth about the language being a dead one
- The need for systematic Learning of Sanskrit
Webinar Timings
Dates:
LIVE May 23 to 26 May 2024
7:30 to 8:30 PM IST
RELAY (REPEAT) May 24 to 27 May 2024
7:00 to 8:00 AM IST
Facilitator: Prof. Gauri Mahulikar
Suggested Webinar Fees: ₹1000, US $25
About the Facilitator
Prof. Gauri Mahulikar is the Academic Director at CIF. Dr. Mahulikar was the Gurudev Tagore Chair of Comparative Literature Professor, former Head of Department of Sanskrit at the Mumbai University and the former Dean of Faculty at Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth. She holds a Doctorate in Sanskrit on ‘Vedic Elements in Puranic Mantras and Rituals’. An author, who has published 8 books and over 100 research articles in English, Marathi, Hindi and Sanskrit, Dr. Mahulikar has mentored several doctoral students; eighteen of whom have successfully earned their doctorates. She was instrumental in launching courses in Manuscriptology, Bhakti Literature and Mysticism in the Sanskrit Department and has coordinated a UGC funded project on ‘Digital Preservation of Palm Leaf Manuscripts’ (2010-2015).
Dr. Mahulikar was awarded the Maneckji Limji Gold Medal for her dissertation on ‘Ancient Greek Dramas and Bharata’s Natyasastra’ from Mumbai University. Some of the many awards that Dr. Mahulikar has been awarded are the ‘Ramakrishna Award’ by the Canadian Education Foundation, Ontario, for the propagation of Sanskrit (2003); Guru Gaurav Puraskar by Kalasadan, Mumbai (2011); Kavikulaguru Kalidas Sanskrit Sadhana Puraskar by Maharashtra State Government (2013); Adi Sankaracarya Puraskar awarded by H.H. Sri Jayendra Saraswati Mahaswamigal, the Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham (2014); Savitribal Phule Puraskar by Mumbai University (2015); and the Indira Behere Puraskar by Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune (2015). Dr. Mahulikar was recently awarded the Adi Shankara Fellowship by the Government of Madhya Pradesh to work on the biography and mathamnaya tradition of Adi Shankaracharya.
Contact Details
For further information or clarification:
Contact: +91 92077 11517
Email: onlinewebinars@chinfo.org
