- Françoise Pommaret
Françoise Pommaret is a French ethnologist and Tibetologist, a and researcher at the CNRS., her work focuses on Bhutan. [ [http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/forinterieur/fiche.php?diffusion_id=43954 Françoise Pommaret, spécialiste du Bouthan] ]
Pommaret grew up in the Congo. She received her diploma in the history of art and archeology from the
université de la Sorbonne and continued her studies in Tibetan atINALCO . Her doctoral thesis on revenants in the Tibetan cultural realm received theprix Delalande-Guérineau from theAcadémie des inscriptions et belles-lettres . She has worked inBhutan since 1981 and worked with the "Bhutan Tourism Corporation" between 1981 and 1986, after which she participated in educational and cultural projects in Bhutan.Françoise Pommaret is currently consul honoraire of Bhutan in France. She is also president of the association of friends of Bhutan.
Françoise Pommaret is director of the laboratory "Langues et cultures de l'aire tibétaine" at the
École pratique des hautes études since February 2003 [ [http://www.dsi.cnrs.fr/pre_bo/2003/fevrier/tpg/DEC020005DRES.htm Décision du CNRS] .] .Publications
*"Bhoutan : forteresse bouddhique de l'Himalaya", Olizane, 1991
*"Lhasa : Lieu du divin, Olizane", Genève, 1997
*"Les revenants de l'au-delà dans le monde tibétain : sources littéraires et tradition vivante", CNRS, Paris, 1998
*"Ambassade de Samuel Turner au Bhoutan et au Tibet", Fleuve Jaune, Findakly, Paris, 2002
*"Le Tibet, une civilisation blessée", Découvertes Gallimard, Paris, 2002
*"Le Bhoutan au plus secret de l'Himalaya", Gallimard, Paris, 2005References
External links
* [http://amisdubhoutan.free.fr/ Official cite of Amis du Bhoutan]
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