The "Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens" was founded in 1957 by Erich Frauwallner. The journal was then published jointly by the Department of Indology (Institut für Indologie) of the University of Vienna and the Committee for the Languages and Cultures of South and East Asia (Kommission für Sprachen und Kulturen Süd- und Ostasiens) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which was the forerunner of the present-day Institute for the Intellectual and Cultural History of Asia (Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens, founded in 1991) of the Academy and had been established at Frauwallner's initiative in 1956. From the year 2000 onwards, the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde) at the University functions as the primarily responsible institutional publisher.
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ISSN Print: 0084-0084 | ISSN Online: 1728-3124