The call for applications for the Winter School in Buddhist Textual Scholarship to be held in Chiang Mai from February 24 to March 1st, 2025 is open until 25 November 2024.

Poster

Details of the program

The Winter School in Buddhist Textual Scholarship is a new intensive teaching program  organized jointly by academics of the EPHE-PSL (Paris), the EFEO and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It is offered to international postgraduate students carrying out research in the domain of Buddhist Studies, and will provide a solid grounding into philology, codicology, and epigraphy. Its focus will be on primary sources transmitted across the Buddhist world, with close consideration of their material dimension, their contexts of production, and their socio-religious functions. The course will introduce students to fieldwork and will allow them to hone their broader methodological approach as well as the skills specific to their area of research. The Winter School has a transregional dimension, with lecturers specializing in South Asia, Southeast Asia, China and Tibet.

It will be held from February 24 to March 1st, 2025 at the EFEO centre in Chiang Mai (Thailand). Tuition, lodging and lunch are free of charge.

The Winter School is addressed to students in their second year of a Master’s degree or at the start of their doctorate, training in the field of Buddhist studies. Participants will be selected on the basis of applications, within the limit of 16 places available.

Students interested in participating in the winter school are invited to complete the online application form.

The deadline for applications is 25 November 2024. Admissions will be announced on 5 December 2024.