Iéna Lectures
The French School of Asian Studies EFEO and the Guimet Museum of Asian Art, two leading research institutions specialized in Asia,, thanks to the support of LVMH Group, have jointly organized from 2007 to 2010 three annual lecture series that present the results of the latest research based on primary sources and field work.
The videos of the lectures are on line displayed on the pages presenting each lecture.
The videos are hosted on the CanalU web site (Adobe Flash Player 9 format).
- Lectures series 2009-2010: "Imagery of Eastern Asia (China, Japan, Vietnam)"
- Lectures series 2008-2009: "Temple, city and territory in Southeast Asia"
- Lectures series 2007-2008: "Images and imagination: Buddhism across Asia"
EFEO News
Happy New Year 2023
01 January 2023
The French School of Asian Studies wishes you a Happy New year 2023.Follow this link to watch the EFEO New Year card. READ MORE

Photographic exhibition ''Louis Finot et le Yunnan''
Paris, France,
The photographic exhibition "Louis Finot et le Yunnan" is installed on the first floor of the EFEO until the end of December 2022.
Some fifty photographs present the trip that Louis Finot probably undertook in the 1920s to Yunnan fou (now Kunming). These photographs are a selection of those presented by Alain Arrault in the photographic album Mémoires de Chine (EFEO/Magellan, 2022).
The writing of Mémoires de Chine also allowed to provide information on the 850 stereoscopic glass plates of the Louis Finot collection taken in China. These pictures have just been put online on the photo library website.
The photographic exhibition "Louis Finot et le Yunnan" is installed on the first floor of the EFEO until the end of December 2022.
Some fifty photographs present the trip that Louis Finot probably undertook in the 1920s to Yunnan fou (now Kunming). These photographs are a selection of those presented by Alain Arrault in the photographic album Mémoires de Chine (EFEO/Magellan, 2022).
The writing of Mémoires de Chine also allowed to provide information on the 850 stereoscopic glass plates of the Louis Finot collection taken in China. These pictures have just been put online on the photo library website.

New Publication
The Sumatipañjikā. A Commentary on Cāndravyākaraṇavṛtti 1.1 and 1.4, Ramhari Timalsina, Collection Indologie 153, Pondichéry : EFEO / IFP, 446 pages.
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New Publication
The East Mebon Stele Inscription from Angkor (K. 528). A Sanskrit Eulogy of the tenth-century Khmer Sovereign Rājendravarman, Dominic Goodall, Collection Indologie 154, Pondichéry : EFEO / IFP, 334 pages.
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Closures
Paris, France, 31 October 2022
Closures:- The Maison de l'Asie library will be closed to the public on Monday 31 October 2022
- The Maison de l'Asie, and therefore the library, will be closed on Tuesday 1 and Friday 11 November 2022