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About MAFIL

MAFIL (Mission Archéologique Franco-Indienne au Ladakh or Franco-Indian Archaeological Mission in Ladakh) is an international network of researchers concerned with the exploration, documentation and preservation of Ladakhi material culture.

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Location of Ladakh in Inner Asia

  • Project 2017-2020

    The second phase of the MAFIL project (2017-2020), in cooperation with HNB Garhwal University (Srinagar, Uttarakhand) is dedicated to the study of early Buddhism in Ladakh with extensive excavations at the site of Leh Choskor and exploration in the Leh valley.

  • Project 2013-2016

    The first phase of the MAFIL project (2013-2016), in cooperation with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), aimed at examining the links between the north-west of the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia over time by establishing a chrono-cultural sequence for the Nubra valley from the Neolithic to the Buddhist period.

  • MAFIL’s permanent institutional and financial support

    For its second phase (2017-2020) the MAFIL is supported institutionally and/or financially by:

    • French Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs (through the Advisory Commission for Archaeological Research Abroad), Paris, France;
    • Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar (Uttarakhand);
    • the French Institute in India, Delhi;
    • the East Asian Civilisations Research Centre, Paris, France;
    • EPHE, PSL Research University, Paris;
    • Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).
  • MAFIL institutionnal and/or financial temporary support

    Since its creation in 2012 the MAFIL was punctually supported at an institutional and/or financial level by:

    • the Special Programme Central Asia of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany;
    • the Swiss Confederation’s Research, Education and Innovation Service, Swiss Embassy, Delhi;
    • the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres (through the Foundation Paule Dumesnil’s award);
    • the Project for Indian Cultural Studies, Mumbaï.

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Excavations

MAFIL sites

Rock Art

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Other fields of research

In addition to the four-year project in Nubra, the members of the MAFIL pursue other research on the archaeology, the arts and the history of Ladakh

Rock Art

The existence of petroglyphs in Ladakh has been known since the 1880s….

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Buddhist stone sculpture

Ladakh differs from other Tibetan cultural areas by a long lasting tradition of stone carving…

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Other remains

According to written sources, the earliest dated Buddhist monument in Ladakh is the temple…

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CONTACT

MAFIL / CRCAO
Collège de France
49 bis Avenue de la Belle Gabrielle
75012 Paris
France

mafil.project@gmail.com

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