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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 is held in Paris over a period of two years (2013-14 and 2014-15), on the general theme of “Buddhist religious fields”.&#160;This year's first workshop will be held on Friday, 5 December 2014.Its theme is:Buddhism and the Spirit Cults Revisited.&#160;Please find the short program below, and the complete program, with abstracts and bibliographical suggestions, here.All interested scholars and students are most welcome to join us.Please contact: Nicolas Sihlé (nsihle [at] vjf.cnrs.fr).&#160;Past and future sessions of these workshops:2012-13:The place of teachings in processes of transmission and conversion.Variations on the Buddhist gift.Buddhism and the State.2013-14 (1st year of the "Buddhist religious fields" cycle):Monasticism.Non-monastic Buddhist specialists.Possession specialists.2014-15 (2nd year of the "Buddhist religious fields" cycle):Buddhism and the spirit cults revisited.Gender and Buddhist religious fields: Jan. 30, 2015 (program forthcoming).The laity as actors of Buddhist religious fields: May 22, 2015 (program forthcoming).&#160;