Bruno Dagens is emeritus Professor of the Universite Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris 3. He is an eminent historian of art and religions, Sanskritist and archaeologist covering a wide area of research, including Afghanistan, South-India and East-Asia, especially Cambodia and Thailand. For his archaeological research he visited Surkh-Kotal in Afghanistan, was posted in Cambodia in the Centre of the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orient and spent many years in the French Institute of Pondicherry, India. He also held academic posts in the Universite Catholique de Louvain.
