Gesar Conference, Paris
International conference: The Many Faces of Ling Gesar / Destins divers de l’épopée de Gesar de Ling. Homage to Rolf A. Stein. Collège de France, Paris, 27-28 Oct. 2014
Category: religion
New book: Buddhist Rituals of Power and Violence
Sihlé, Nicolas. 2013. Rituels bouddhiques de pouvoir et de violence : La figure du tantriste tibétain (Buddhist Rituals of Power and Violence: The Figure of the Tibetan Tantrist). Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études – Sciences religieuses 152. Turnhout: Brepols. (405 pp.)
Available from Brepols Publishers, Turnhout (Belgium):
http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503544700-1
Comparative anthropology of Buddhism workshop: Possession specialists
Organized as a collaboration between the Centre for 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 is held...
Archaeology and arts of Ladakh
A one-day conference (Paris, 3 June 2014), open to all, hosted by the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie orientale, a research unit of the CNRS / EPHE / Université Paris Diderot:...
Comparative anthropology of Buddhism workshop: Non-monastic specialists
Organized as a collaboration between the Centre for 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 is held...
Workshop: Territories, communities, and exchanges in Kham
The ERC-funded project “Territories, communities, and exchanges in Kham Sino-Tibetan Borderlands” announces a public workshop in Villejuif, convened by Stéphane Gros, at the Center for Himalayan Studies (CNRS), on 16 December 2013: Nicolas SihléNicolas...
Conference: When the Taxman Cometh
When the Taxman Cometh: Tax, Corvée and Community Obligations in Tibetan Societies 6 and 7 December 2013 Fontainebleau The French-German (ANR/DFG) research programme “Social History of Tibetan Societies, 17th to 20th Centuries” announces...
Comparative anthropology of Buddhism workshop: Monasticism
Organized as a collaboration between the Centre for 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 will be...
Jean Rouch International Film Festival: Tibet
Since its beginnings, one of the recurring components of the annual Jean Rouch International Film Festival in Paris is a series of screenings entitled “Regards comparés” (something that we could perhaps translate as “Our...
“Himalayan Connections” workshop report
The interdisciplinary workshop “Himalayan Connections: Disciplines, Geographies, Trajectories”, convened by Andrew Quintman (Religious Studies) and Sara Shneiderman (Anthropology), both Yale faculty members as well as core members of the Yale Himalaya Initiative, was held...
CFP: Towards an Anthropology of Buddhism
Panel: “Towards an Anthropology of Buddhism” Panel convenors: Nicolas Sihlé (Center for Himalayan Studies, CNRS) & Patrice Ladwig (Max Planck Institute / U. of Zurich) Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS)...
Appel à communications: Trichologie tibétaine
Appel à communications : Trichologie tibétaine. Les cheveux et leur traitement dans l’aire tibétaine Colloque de la Société Française d’Études du Monde Tibétain (SFEMT) (SFEMT) 28 mars 2014, Paris Les cheveux (et...
Pouvoir, musique et chamanisme. La Chine des marges vue par deux ethnologues
Le Comptoir des Presses, 86 rue Claude Bernard, 75005 Paris, organise le jeudi 27 juin à 19H, une rencontre à l’occasion de la parution de : Versets chamaniques de Aurélie Névot Le pouvoir en...
New book : Versets chamaniques. Le Livre du sacrifice à la terre (textes rituels de Chine)
Certaines minorités chinoises disposent d’écritures particulières. Celle des Yi du Yunnan, rituelle et secrète, est l’apanage des Maîtres de la psalmodie, bimo. Ces chamanes disent voyager dans le cosmos et communiquer avec les esprits...
New book: “Le renoncement au féminin. Couvents et nonnes dans le bouddhisme tibétain”
Nicolas Schneider, Le renoncement au féminin. Couvents et nonnes dans le bouddhisme tibétain Philippe RamirezMore Posts
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