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.
Markus Rüsch is a full-time lecturer in the Faculty of Letters at Kyoto Women’s University. His research interests include Japanese Buddhism (especially Pure Land and Tendai), religious space, hagiography, and Buddhist ethics. His dissertation has been published as Argumente des Heiligen: Rhetorische Mittel und narrative Strukturen in Hagiographien am Beispiel des japanischen Mönchs Shinran (Iudicium, 2019). His recent articles include “Connection and Moment: En 縁 in Genshin’s Works Ichijō yōketsu 一乗要決 and Ōjō yōshū 往生要集” (Hōrin: Vergleichende Studien zur japanischen Kultur 22, 2023); “Der buddhistische Anteil am ‘Tennō’: Wechselseitige Beziehungen zwischen Hof und Buddhismus mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Tendai” (in Daniel Schley, ed., Japans moderne Monarchie: Beiträge japanologischer Forschung zur Wahrnehmung und Geschichte der Tenno, LIT Verlag, 2022); and “Multiple Divinities in Shin Buddhist Temples” (in Michael Pye, ed., Exploring Shinto, Equinox, 2020).