About the four Buddhas after Angkor

Conference

Ghosts of the past: About the four Buddhas after Angkor

With Ashley Thompson, Professor Hiram W. Woodward, Chair in Southeast Asian Art, Centre for Southest Asian Studies (SOAS, London).

Tuesday 21st November 2017 at 6:30pm
Institut français du Cambodge
Conference in French, translated in Khmer and English
Free entrance

What became of Angkor after Angkor? How do people remember the empire after its fall? What about its future? This conference will try to answer those questions based on new researchs about the four Buddhas in the theravadin mythos.

This conference is part of the IRASEC conference series «Time, Space, Memory» organized by Anne Yvonne Guillou, Anthropologist at CNRS / IRASEC