Nina Mirnig , BA MST DPHIL (OXON)
Member of the Young Academy since 2020
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Orcid-ID:
0000-0002-4944-6535
Research Areas:
- Linguistics and Literature
- Indology
- Epigraphy
- Codicology
- History of religion
- Südasienkunde/South Asian Studies
Profile:
Publications:
Selected Memberships:
- Editorial Board Medieval Worlds
- De Nobili Research Library – Association for Indology and the Study of Religion
- European Association of South Asian Studies
Selected Prizes:
- Elise Richter Fellowship, FWF
- Jan Gonda Fellowship, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Full Doctoral Award, Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)
- Professional Master’s Award, Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)
Selected Publications:
- Liberating the Liberated: Tantric Death Rites in Early Śaivism. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. (2018) (Open Access: https://verlag.oeaw.ac.at/liberating-the-liberated)
- “Adapting Śaiva Tantric Initiation for Exoteric Circles: The Case of the Lokadharmiṇī Dīkṣā and its History in Early Medieval Sources“, in Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions: Essays in Honour of Alexis Sanderson, (eds) Dominic Goodall, Shaman Hatley, Harunaga Isaacson, Srilata Raman. Leiden: Brill (2020), pp. 249–282. (2020) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004432802_013)
- “Rudras on Earth on the Eve of the Tantric Age: The Śivadharmaśāstra on creating Śaiva lay and initiatory communities“, in Tantric Communities in Context, (eds) Nina Mirnig, Marion Rastelli, Vincent Eltschinger. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, pp. 471–510. (2019).
- “Early Strata of Śaivism in the Kathmandu Valley: Śivaliṅga Pedestal Inscriptions from 466–645 CE”, in Indo-Iranian Journal, Volume 59 4/4, Brill. (2016) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-05904001)
- “Favoured by the Venerable Lord Paśupati. Tracing the Rise of a new Tutelary Deity in Epigraphic Expressions of Power in Early Medieval Nepal”, in Indo-Iranian Journal, Volume 53, 3/4, Brill, pp. 325–347. (2013) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-13560311)