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Organized as a collaboration between the Centre for Himalayan Studies and the Southeast Asia Centre units of the French CNRS, a series of day-long thematic workshops in the comparative anthropology of Buddhism will be held in Paris this year (2012-2013).The first workshop (Fall 2012) will be held on Friday, November 23.Its theme is:The place of teachingsin processes of transmission of and conversion to Buddhism.Please find the short program below, and the complete program, with abstracts and bibliography, here.All interested scholars are most welcome to join us.Please contact: Nicolas Sihlé (nsihle [at] vjf.cnrs.fr).&#160;