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Prof. Saerji @ Bangkok

22 DECEMBER 13

Assoc. Prof. Saerji (Research Institute of Sanskrit Manuscripts and Buddhist Literature, Department of South Asian Studies, School of Foreign Languages, Peking ...

Thai Architecture and Architecture of Neighboring Countries in Southeast Asia

21 DECEMBER 13

P. Pichard and C. Pottier will attend the "Seminar on Thai Architecture and Architecture of Neighboring Countries in Southeast Asia"Venue: Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn ...

Two new papers of P. Skilling

11 DECEMBER 13

Peter Skilling “Prakrit Prajñāpāramitās: Northwest, South, and Center: Gleanings from Avalokitavrata and Haribhadra.” Bulletin of the Asia ...

Aséanie 30

07 DECEMBER 13

The latest issue of the journal Aséanie, edited, designed and published in Bangkok by the Bangkok EFEO center, is just off the press. It is available on request in Bangkok ...

Mémoires de Thaïlande by F. Lagirarde

07 DECEMBER 13

Mémoires de Thaïlande Textes et légendes de François Lagirarde Coédition EFEO – Magellan & Cie17 x ...

CANCELLATION OF THE CONFERENCE @ Alliance Française

28 NOVEMBER 13

CANCELLATION OF THE CONFERENCE: NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN ANGKORDue to technical improvements of the auditorium, we are forced to cancel the conference "New ...

C. Pottier @ Guimet

22 NOVEMBER 13

As part of the exhibition "Angkor : Naissance d'un mythe - Louis Delaporte et le Cambodge" (October 16, 2013 to January 13, 2014), the Guimet Museum organise on November 22, a ...

Stephen F. Teiser: Healing Rituals in Chinese Buddhism

19 NOVEMBER 13

Stephen F. Teiser will give a presentation on "Healing Rituals in Chinese Buddhism" as EFEO-Chulalongkorn lecture on 19 of November. Stephen F. Teiser is D.T. ...

C. Pottier @ Société Asiatique

15 NOVEMBER 13

C. Pottier will give a comunication at the Société Asiatique on 15th of November, entitled "A Buddha can hide another. New considerations on ...

C. Pottier @ Leiden

11 NOVEMBER 13

C. Pottier will participate at the Conference on Early Asian Urbanism, 11-13 November 2013, Leiden. He will speak about "Early Angkorian ...

C. Pottier @ Ho Chi Minh City

06 NOVEMBER 13

C. Pottier has been invited to participate to the final Greater Mekong Basin meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on November 6-7. He will give a presentation on Water ...

P. Pichard @ Pondicherry

30 OCTOBER 13

Pierre Pichard will visit Pondicherry from October 30 to November 5 to bring the last negatives of Pagan, retrieve digitized photos for treatment in Bangkok and to decide ...

P. Skilling nominated as Directeur d'études

30 OCTOBER 13

P. Skilling has ben nominated Directeur d'études by decree of the 6 august 2013.

P. Skilling in India and Nepal

19 OCTOBER 13

Peter Skilling will be on study trip in India and Nepal from October 19 to November 14 2013. He will visit various historical sites. In Bodh Gaya, 22-24 ...

C. Pottier in mission @ Kaesông for MAK

18 OCTOBER 13

Christophe Pottier will return with Elizabeth Chabanol to Kaesong (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) from 18 to 26 October to carry ...

P. Pichard & C. Pottier @ Si Thep

03 OCTOBER 13

P. Pichard and C. Pottier will visit Si Thep on October 3, with a team from the office of Architecture and Archaeology at the Fine Arts Department in Bangkok. The visit ...

New SAC English website

23 SEPTEMBER 13

Please visit the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre new english website: http://www.sac.or.th/en/

From left to right: Prapassorn Posrithong, C. Pottier, Y. Goudineau, Somsuda Leyavanija, P. Skilling, P. Pichard and Rampa Salikarin

Meeting with Yves Goudineau @ SAC

19 SEPTEMBER 13

Yves Goudineau, head of the EFEO center in Chiang Mai, participated to a meeting on September 19 with the direction of SAC, to present to Ms. Somsuda Leyavanija the various ...

From left to right: Vasu Poshyanandana, Christophe Pottier, Phurnthum Thumwimol, Pierre Pichard et Kitcha Yupho during a meeting at the FAD 11/09/2013.

C. Pottier @ Fine Arts Department

16 SEPTEMBER 13

C. Pottier will give a presentation of recents archaeological works and researches in Angkor at the Fine Arts Department in Bangkok on Monday 16 at 10 am.

European Heritage Day

15 SEPTEMBER 13

On the occasion of the third edition of the European Heritage Day in Bangkok, Sunday, Sept. 15, the Residence de France will be open to the public from 10am to 17:00pm. C. Pottier ...

New publication: Essays on the Emergence of Mahayana

14 SEPTEMBER 13

New pulication: 'The Bodhisattva Ideal. Essays on the Emergence of Mahayana' with an article by P. Skilling.This book brings together six essays on the origin and history of ...

P. Skilling: "Women in the vanguard? Reflections on early Indian Buddhism"

10 SEPTEMBER 13

Peter Skilling will give a lecture entitled "Women in the vanguard? Reflections on early Indian Buddhism" at the "2013 Chulalongkorn Asian Heritage Forum: The Emergence and ...

The Buddhist Monastery

04 SEPTEMBER 13

New (re)publication of "The Buddhist Monastery, A Cross-Cultural Survey", Edited by Pierre Pichard and François Lagirarde, by EFEO and Silkworm ...

P. Skilling @ Hong Kong

02 SEPTEMBER 13

Peter Skilling will visit Hong Kong from September 2 to 7, to give a lecture entitled "Early Indian Mahayana: Thoughts and Questions", 4 Sept 2013 (Wed, 7-9 ...

"Vaidalya, Mahayana, and the Bodhisatva in India" by P. Skilling

02 SEPTEMBER 13

New publication by Peter Skilling, "Vaidalya, Mahayana, and the Bodhisatva in India," in Bhikkhu Nyanatusita (ed.), The Bodhisattva Ideal: Essays on the Emergence of ...

P. Pichard talk to AFP

02 SEPTEMBER 13

Pierre Pichard gave an interview on Pagan to AFP correspondent William Davies on September 2.

C. Pottier @ Sophia University

01 SEPTEMBER 13

Christophe Pottier will give a lecture on the history of Angkor to a group of students in archeology and architecture from the Royal University of Fine Arts at the Research Center ...

P. Skilling in Sri Lanka

05 AUGUST 13

From August 5 to 19, Peter Skilling will visit Sri Lanka to attend the colloquium "Maritime Trade and Cultural Exchanges in the Indian Ocean" convened at Sigiriya, August 9-11, by ...

Assoc. Prof. Saerji in Bangkok

27 JULY 13

Assoc. Prof. Saerji (Department of South Asian Studies, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University) will visit Bangkok to work with Peter Skilling on a collaborative study ...

New co-publication of C. Pottier on the Lidar

12 JULY 13

The first results of the lidar survey of Angkor performed in April 2012 by the International Consortium KALC have just been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

C. Pottier @ Angkor

24 JUNE 13

Christophe Pottier will join the excavation campaign of the Greater Angkor Project in Angkor from June 24 to 30 with his colleague Roland Fletcher (USYD).

The Geography of Pali

18 JUNE 13

Peter Skilling will give a presentation "The Geography of Pali" at the seminar of Philologie moyen-indienne of Nalini Balbir (EPHE Section des sciences historiques et ...

C. Pottier @ National Museum Bangkok: From Greater Angkor to Angkor

14 JUNE 13

On June 14th, C. Pottier will give a public presentation entitled "From Greater Angkor to Angkor" at the National Museum Bangkok for the National Museum Volunteers ...

Alexandre Barthel, new EFEO scholarship holder

13 JUNE 13

A new EFEO scholarship holder, Alexander Barthel visited the EFEO centre in Bangkok on June 13. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Caen, studying "The ...

SAC @ Chansen Museum

12 JUNE 13

On 12 June 2012, the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre organized a visit to the Chansen Museum for the Board members of the Centre and a delegation ...

P. Skilling in Dordogne

02 JUNE 13

Peter Skilling will stay in Dordogne, 2-15 June, to work with colleagues from the Padmakara Translation Group on the translation into English from Tibetan of Mahayana sutras ...

C. Pottier @ Kaesông

02 JUNE 13

C. Pottier participates from June 3 to 10 to the launching of the excavation campaign of the Mission Archéologique à Kaesông directed by É. ...

The history of the consecration of images and the eye-opening ceremony

01 JUNE 13

Peter Skilling and Santi Pakdeekham contributed a chapter on 'The history of the consecration of images and the eye-opening ceremony' (Tamnan phithi-phutthaphisek lae phithi ...

Ancient Water Management System of Southeast Asia

27 MAY 13

Monday 27th May 2013, SAC Bangkok: “Ancient Water Management System of Southeast Asia: case studies from Angkor in Cambodia to ancient states in ...

B. Porte @ the Siam Society: Conservation at the workshop of the National Museum of Phnom Penh (Cambodia)

23 MAY 13

23 May 2013 (Thursday) 7.30 p.m.Conservation at the workshop of the National Museum of Phnom Penh (Cambodia). A talk by Bertrand Porte. Mr. Bertrand Porte, Sculpture ...

Opening of the Phra phut siri man wichai Hall, Sukhothai Historical Park

16 MAY 13

Peter Skilling attended the opening of the Phra phut siri man wichai Hall, Sukhothai Historical Park, Sukhothai, on 16 May, 2013. With Santi Pakdeekham, he contributed a chapter ...

SEAMEO SPAFA International Conference on Southeast Asian Archaeology

09 MAY 13

C. Pottier will attend to the SEAMEO SPAFA International Conference on Southeast Asian Archaeology to be held on 7-10 May 2013 in Chonburi. http://www.seameo ...

P. Pichard receiving a bouquet from HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn

P. Pichard hospitalized in Bangkok

25 APRIL 13

Pierre Pichard has been hospitalized in Bangkok after a fall in Sukhothai on the 24th. We wish him a smooth and speedy recovery.

P. Pichard & C. Pottier @ Sukhothai

24 APRIL 13

P. Pichard & C. Pottier will visit various monuments in Sukhothai & Si Satchanalai between 24 and 26 of April.

C. Pottier @ SAA’s 78th Annual Meeting in Hawaii

04 APRIL 13

Christophe Pottier will participate in the 78th annual conference of the Society of American Archaeologists (SAA) in Hawaii from 3 to 7 April 2013. He will give a ...

Pierre Pichard @ My-Son

25 MARCH 13

Pierre Pichard will stay from 25 to 30 of March at My Son (Vietnam) to participate to the Steering Committee meeting for the conservation of the G group by UNESCO and ...

C. Pottier @ Angkor

25 MARCH 13

Christophe Pottier will stay in Angkor from March 25 to 30 to continue with his colleague Roland Fletcher (USYD) the completion of their forthcoming book at ...

Buddhist Narrative in Asia and beyond, 2 volumes edited by Peter Skilling & Justin McDaniel

08 MARCH 13

New publication: Proceedings of the International Congress 'Buddhist Narrative in Asia and Beyond", Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 8 to 11 August 2010, ...

Pagan Revisited: Pierre Pichard at the Siam Society

07 MARCH 13

A SIAM SOCIETY LECTURE Pagan Revisited A talk by Dr. Pierre Pichard Date: Thursday, 7 March 2013Time: 7:30 p.m. Place: The Siam ...

Aséanie 29

06 MARCH 13

The latest issue of the journal Aséanie (No 28 December 2011), edited, designed and published between in Bangkok by the Bangkok EFEO center, is just off the press. It is ...

Seventh century temple unearthed at West Baray

01 MARCH 13

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030161673/Siem-Reap-Insider/seventh-century-temple-unearthed-at-west-baray.html

C. Pottier @ Angkor for MAFKATA

02 FEBRUARY 13

C. Pottier will be in Angkor during the month of February to direct the 2013 excavations campaign of the french cambodian archaeological mission on the ...

P. Pichard & C. Pottier @ Thammasat

01 FEBRUARY 13

P. Pichard & C. Pottier give a presentation at Thammasat University on "Archaeology and Heritage Conservation: French contributions to Indo-China and Siam" on 1 February ...

P. Skilling in Singapore: Aesthetics of Devotion: The Buddha in Thai Art

21 JANUARY 13

Peter Skilling will give a talk entitled "Aesthetics of Devotion: The Buddha in Thai Art" on Monday 21 Jan 2013 (7 to 8.30pm) @ Ngee Ann Auditorium, ACM ...

C. Pottier @ Angkor

20 JANUARY 13

Christophe Pottier will be in Siem Reap from 20 to 27 January to prepare the 2013 campaign of the French-Khmer archaeological mission on the territory ...

P. Skilling "The Wat Maheyong Inscription: What can it tell us?"

13 JANUARY 13

Peter Skilling is talking on "The Wat Maheyong Inscription: What can it tell us?" on January 13 (at 9:00 a.m.) at the international Conference on The Origin of ...

Ms. Somsuda Leyavanija new director of the SAC

07 JANUARY 13

. Somsuda Leyavanija, archaeologist and former director of the Fine Arts Department is the new director of Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre since the 1st do January, ...