Immerse yourself in the secret tantric kingdom of Nepal
Date: The last course took place in 2024. We expect to rerun this course in the future but do not have anything scheduled at the moment.
Goddess Traditions & Tantra in the Kathmandu Valley
What You Will Get
★ Daily lectures and workshops by leading international and Nepali scholars
★ Expert-led tutorials and engagement with rituals, religious spaces, and traditional practices: understanding through participation
★ Unique fieldwork experiences and opportunities for ethnographic observation of Nepali culture
★ Exclusive insight into some of the current cultural preservation and academic research projects being undertaken in the Kathmandu Valley
★ Expert-led excursions to World Heritage sites, influential places of worship, cultural hotspots, and unknown tantric locations, connecting theory to practice
★ Festive traditional Newar and Himalayan dinners
★ Leadership and advisement from academic experts throughout the experiences
Lead Scholar
Dr Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen
Sakta expert and Lecturer in the History of Religions and Indic Languages, University of Oxford
