Friday 28th January

« Vishnuism in all its States »

Proposed and presided by Gerdi GERSCHHEIMER

10 h - 12 h 30 (1st floor)
Leslie C. Orr [Concordia University, Quebec]: "Viṣṇu in the Tamil country: maps and mūrtis".
Pierre-Yves Manguin [École française d'Extrême-Orient]: "Early Vishnuism in South-East Asia: An Archaeological overview" .
Emmanuel Francis [Associate member of the Centre d'Étude de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud]: "Shaiva models in Vishnuism : from the Kailāsanātha to the Vaikuṇṭhaperumāḷ of Kāñcīpuram".
Valérie Gillet [École française d'Extrême-Orient]: "Presence of Viṣṇu in the Pāṇḍya caves".

2: 30 pm (downstairs)
The afternoon will be devoted to an informal discussion, where the Śaivasiddhāntin Dominic Goodall [École française d'Extrême-Orient, Pondicherry] will oppose the magic of this school to the Blessed one (bhāgavata) André Couture [Université Laval, Québec] and to the Anchorite (vaikhānasa) Gérard Colas [Centre d'Étude de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud], on the theme "Corpus and social body". READ MORE