Bettina Sharada Baumer

Bettina Sharada B?umer is an eminent scholar of Indology and Religious Studies in general and of non-dual Trika ?aivism of Kashmir in particular. She is a direct disciple of Swami Lakshman Joo (1907-1991). Visiting Professor in several universities including Vienna, Salzburg and Berne (Switzerland), she has been teaching the philosophy of non-dual Kashmir ?aivism in seminars and retreat seminars in India and Europe for the last 20 years. In 2015 she was awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India. Dr. Sadananda Das has been teaching Sanskrit language, literature, Kashmir ?aivism and spoken Sanskrit at the Institute of Indology and Central Asian Studies at Leipzig University, Germany since 2005.