Comparative anthropology of Buddhism workshop 3

Organized as a collaboration between the Centre of Himalayan Studies and the Southeast Asia Centre units of the French CNRS, a series of day-long thematic workshops in the comparative anthropology of Buddhism are held in Paris this year (2012-2013).

The third workshop (Spring 2013) will be held on Friday, April 12.
Its theme is:

Relations between Buddhism and the State:

Examples from China, Sikkim and Tuva.

Please find the short program below, and the complete program, with abstracts, here.

All interested scholars are most welcome to join us.
Please contact: Nicolas Sihlé (nsihle [at] vjf.cnrs.fr).

For previous sessions of these workshops, click here and here.

Nicolas Sihlé

Nicolas Sihlé, a sociocultural anthropologist, is researcher at the Center for Himalayan Studies, a research unit of the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) based in Villejuif (France). He was previously assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia (USA) from 2002 to 2010. He specializes on Tibetan religion and society. His current work focuses on post-Mao socioreligious transitions in communities of householder religious specialists of tantric Buddhism in northeast Tibet (Amdo), and on the comparative anthropology of Buddhism.

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