The catalog of EFEO Publications includes works on a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, etc.), centered on Asia, from India to Japan.
These publications address both specialists, and a wider public interested in Asian civilizations and societies.
Peter Bisschop is Professor of Sanskrit and Ancient Cultures of South Asia at Leiden University. His main publications bear on the history of Śaivism and include Early Śaivism and the Skandapurāṇa (2006), volumes IIB (with Hans Bakker & Yuko Yokochi, 2014) and IV and V (with Yuko Yokochi, 2018 and 2021) of the critical edition of the Skandapurāṇa, Universal Śaivism (2018), and the edited volume Primary Sources and Asian Pasts (with Elizabeth Cecil, 2021).