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.
Didier Davin is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Japanese Literature. His research focuses on the developments of Rinzai school thought between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, and on the diffusion of the school’s doctrines within Japanese society. His recent publications include “Datsu Kamakura zen? Junsui zen to Daitōha ni tsuite no ichi kōsatsu” 脱鎌倉禅？ 純粋禅 と大燈派についての一考察 [Out of Kamakura Zen? A Reflection on the “Pure Zen” and the Daitō Branch], in Chūseizen e no shinshikaku: “Chūsei zenseki sōkan” ga hiraku sekai 中世禅への新視角：『中世禅籍叢刊』が開く世界 (Rinsen Shoten, 2019); and “Mumonkan” no shusse sugoroku: Kika shita zen no seiten『 無門関』の出世双六：帰化した 禅の聖典 [The Twists and Turns of the Wumenguan: The Chan Text That Became Japanese] (Heibonsha, 2020).