François Bizot
François Bizot was born in 1944. His memoir The Gate, published in English in 2003, chronicles his long experience as an ethnologist in Cambodia, where he was taken captive by the Khmer Rouge in 1971. Bizot has spent the greater part of his career studying Buddhism, and now holds the chair in Southeast Asian Buddhism at the Sorbonne.
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