Klemens Karlsson, PhD, Researcher in the culture, religion, and history of South- and Southeast Asia
I am Klemens Karlsson from Sweden. I am affiliated researcher at
Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Chiang
Mai University, Thailand. I received my PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden
in 2000 in the History of Religions. My research is focused
on culture, religion, and social sciences in South and Southeast Asia, with a special
interest in Buddhist visual culture, history, and ethnicity in the
borderlands of northern Southeast Asia, especially concerning Chiang Tung/Keng
Tung, in the Eastern Shan State of Myanmar. My research during my doctoral studies was the so-called aniconic Buddhist art in early India.