"Classical Tamil Winter School becomes Summer Seminar" (Pondicherry, 31st July - 25th August 2006)

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Dear Y-Indology list members,

 

I have just received the following information

which may be of interest to some of you (see below)

 

Best wishes

 

-- Jean-Luc Chevillard

 

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"Classical Tamil Winter School becomes Summer Seminar"

 

Yes, the CTWS will take place in 2006 for the 4th time - but it will be a

Classical Tamil Summer Seminar (CTSS) for a change. (This is due to reasons

of organisation, and hopefully we will go back to normal in winter 2007.)

The plan for 2006 is, as was promised, an intensive reading of PuRam

poetry, since in 2005 we concentrated on Akam texts. For the first two

weeks we will read PuRanANURu with pandit T.V. Gopal Iyer. His selection of

poems will include not only martial poems and praise of kings, but will

emphasize also the more philosophical and didactic elements to be found in

that anthology. We will make use also of the extensive manuscript material

collected in the last year. The second half of the course will be devoted

to sections from the TiruviLaiyATaRpurANam, a collection of narratives

dealing with the pastimes of Shiva in Maturai, perhaps of the 17th century.

One of the stories we will read is a retelling of the Cankam legend, an

account of Shiva composing a Cankam poem at the king's request - and being

criticised by a scholar of the court.

 

All the details on:

 

<http://www.efeo.fr/ctws/index.htm>