In May 2019, AngkorDatabase and Archimages Cambodia started a fruitful collaboration aimed at making an impressive iconographic fund easily accessible to researchers and all Angkor lovers. Since the 1990s, librarian-editor Jean-Jacques Donard and photographer Philippe Bataillard have been… Read more

Panggah Ardiyansyah is an educator at the Borobodur Conservation Office, Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia. Specializing in art history and conservation, While curating roving exhibitions on Borobodur Temple across Indonesia, he is an editorial board member of… Read more

Walter Aschmoneit (b. 1941) is a global historian and development expert who worked in Cambodia during the crucial phase of reconstruction, from 1994 to 1998.He studied political science, history, agricultural economics of the Third World and Chinese language at Heidelberg University, Hanover… Read more

Jeannine Auboyer (6 Aug 1912, Paris - 6 Feb 1990, Sèvres (92), France) was a French Indologist and art historian specializing in the classical arts of South and Southeast Asia. From 1965 to 1980 she was the chief-curator of the Musée Guimet in Paris.A daughter of commissaire-priseur [auctioneer]… Read more

Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin (1946, Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar)  – 14 Aug. 2021, Hawai'i, USA) was a Burmese American historian and emeritus professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a specialist in early Southeast Asian and Burmese history.His parents - with brother John and sister… Read more

Léonard Eugène Aurousseau (12 Jul. 1888, Cannes, France - 24 Jan. 1929, Yerres, France) was a French sinologist, historian and archaeologist who was the Director of École française d'extrême-orient (EFEO) from 1926 to 1929. After studying Chinese language in Paris, he served in Indochina as soldier… Read more

Étienne François Aymonier (26 Feb 1844, Le Chatelard, France – 21 Jan 1929, Paris), French naval officer, colonial administrator, linguist and explorer, was the first scientist to extensively survey the ruins and inscriptions of the Khmer empire in today's Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and southern… Read more

Prabodh Chandra (P.C.) Bagchi প্রবোধচন্দ্র-বাগচী (Bengali) (18 Nov 1898, Jessore, Bengal, British India (now Magura, Bangladesh) – 19 Jan 1956, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India) was a notable Sino-Indologist of the 20th century, and the third Upacharya (Vice-Chancellor) of Visva-Bharati University,… Read more

BAKU Saito BAKU 斎藤 (b. 1948, Niigata Prefecture, Japan) is a photographer who has extensively covered Angkor temples in the 1990s. After entering Osaka Art School in 1966, he started working at New Photo Studio in 1970, and studied under photographer Miyashita Akiyoshi. He Established STUDIO BAKU… Read more

A platform for performing arts, a meeting point for local artists and curious travelers, Bambu Stage thrives to change perceptions about the history, culture, and issues that impact Cambodia. Bambu Street, Siem Reap, Cambodia Read more

Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat is a researcher at the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University (Australia). He specializes in Mythology and Folklore, Indian Religions and History of Religion.Dr. Bapat has completed a translation from Marathi into English of an… Read more

Head Curator of Musée national des Arts Asiatiques Guimet (MNAAG, Paris), Pierre Baptiste is in charge of Southeast Asian arts at the museum since 1996. An art historian, Pirerre Baptiste has taught at École du Louvre (Paris) and at the RUFA Faculty of Archaeology (Phnom Penh). He also supervised… Read more

Marie-Etienne-Auguste Barth (22 March 1834, Strasbourg - 15 Apr 1916, Audierne, France) was a secondary school teacher in his native Alsace (in Bouxwiller) when he started to study ancient Indian literature and Sanskrit by himself. Within less than two decades, the self-taught Indianist became one… Read more

Francois Pierre Sauvaire Comte [Earl] de Barthélémy (10 May 1870, Paris, France - 28 Oct. 1940) was a French explorer and writer who headed the Mission Barthélemy to Laos in 1894-6.After overtaking a trip around the world in 1892-3, he joined the French Army in then Indochina, assigned by the… Read more

Prof. Kishor K. Basa is the Vice Chancellor of Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Baripada, Odisha. He was the Tagore National Fellow, Ministry of Culture, Govt of India in 2019-20. He is also the Chairman of Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA), the… Read more

Dr. Adolf Philipp Wilhelm Bastian (26 June 1826, Bremen, Germany – 2 Feb. 1905, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago), an avid traveler and ethnographer, considered as one of the founders of modern anthropology and ethnology as scientific disciplines (as well as 'the father of German ethnology'),… Read more

Kamaleswar Bhattacharya (29 Aug 1928, near Dhaka [now Bangladesh] - 16 March 2014, Dhaka) was a French Indianist and Sanskritist of Indian origin, a specialist in Ancient Cambodia epigraphy and history.Educated in Calcutta [Kolkata] and at the Sanskrit University of Varanasi, he came to Paris in… Read more

Capitaine (Captain) Marie Joseph Auguste Baudesson (15 March 1867, Paris - ?) was a volunteer in the French army deployed in Tonkin, where he studied and photographed the Moi, the Cham and other ethnic minorities.An exhibition of his work, 'Two years among the Moi', was held in Hanoi in 1902.… Read more

Art historian Joachim K. Bautze has taught at the universities of Heidelberg, Tokyo and Berlin. He has guest-curated exhibitions of Indian art in Europe and the USA, and contributed several studies on Indian miniature paintings. Dr. Bautze has written, contributed to, or edited, a number of books,… Read more

Indian Art historian Claudine Bautze-Picron has studied artworks in Bihar, West Bengal, Bangladesh, and Southeast Asia, focusing on Buddhist iconography.A researcher with CNRS (France), she has authored books book on mural carvings and paintings at Pagan (Burma/Myanmar), and The Bejewelled Buddha,… Read more