Skilling, Peter (1949-....)
Canada
Thaïlande
Date de naissance
1949
Langues d'expression
anglais
français
thaï
Directeur d'études à l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, affecté au centre de Bangkok, spécialiste de l'histoire du bouddhisme et des textes bouddhiques, titulaire d’un doctorat (2004) et d’une habilitation à diriger des recherches (2008), a reçu le prix Ikuo Hirayama de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres pour son ouvrage Wat Si Chum, Sukhothai (Bangkok, 2008)
Peter Skilling is a member of the École française d’Extrême-Orient (Bangkok and Paris). He has lived in Thailand for over thirty years. His research interests include the art and archaeology of India and Southeast Asia, in particular as related to the history of Buddhism. He has edited “ Mahasutras: Great Discourses of the Buddha” (2 vols., The Pali Text Society, Oxford, 1994, 1997) and is editor and co-author of “ Wat Si Chum” (River Books, Bangkok, 2007). At present he is preparing a corpus of the Pali inscriptions of Thailand.
Disciplines liées à ses interventions
Vidéos
New discoveries in the Buddhist art of South India
Skilling
Peter
New discoveries in the Buddhist art of South India, The life of the Buddha from Phanigiri, Andhra Pradesh Recent discoveries and excavations have significantly transformed the map of ancient Buddhist