10 April 2017, 05:30 am
Buddhism in Mainland SE Asia
Programme Type
Talks
 
 
 
 
Facts and Fiction: The Myth of Suvannabh?mi and the Advent of Buddhism in Mainland Southeast Asia 
Speaker: Mr. Nicolas Revire, lecturer in French at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University (Bangkok, Thailand) since 2003. He has completed a doctoral degree at the Université Paris 3-Sorbonne nouvelle in France. He specializes in the Buddhist art and archaeology of South and Southeast Asia with a research focus on pre-modern Thailand. He is general editor of a collective volume titled Before Siam: Essays in Art and Archaeology (Bangkok, 2014)
 
Chair: Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray