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Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines

The Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines is a twice-yearly (October and April) journal published by the UMR 8155 (CRCAO) of the CNRS, Paris. The Director of the RET is Dr Jean-Luc Achard, and the editorial board includes Drs. Anne Chayet and Pierre Arènes. All contributions are peer-reviewed and may be submitted to the editors in digital format at the following email address: jeanluc.achard@sfr.fr. The first eighteen volumes are available as a free PDF downloads. You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to view and print the files. Please send us a short email to say whether this service is of interest and utility to you. Click here to read an introduction to the journal in French.

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Number 18, Avril 2010

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Cover, contents (147 kb, pp. 1-4)
Zhangzhung dictionary: Introduction (287 kb, pp. 5-32)
author: Dan Martin
Zhangzhung dictionary (1.6 MB, pp. 33-253)
author: Dan Martin
Sommaire des anciens numéros (176 kb, pp. 254-260)

Number 17, Octobre 2009

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Liu Manqing: A Sino-Tibetan Adventurer and the Origin of a New Sino-Tibetan Dialogue in the 1930s (372 kb, pp. 5-20)
author: Fabienne Jagou
A Preliminary Report on Investigations into (Bon nyid) 'Od gsal and Zhi khro bar do in Earlier Zhang zhung sNyan rgyud and sNyan rgyud Literature (618 kb, pp. 21-50)
author: Henk Blezer
On the history and identification of two of the Thirteen Later Translations of the Dzogchen Mind Series (286 kb, pp. 51-62)
author: Karen Liljenberg
A Handlist of the Bonpo Kangyur and Tengyur (590 kb, pp. 63-128)
author: Kurt Keutzer & Kevin 0'Neill
Sommaire des anciens numéros (198 kb, pp. 129-135)

Cumulative Index, Table des Matières récapitulative, 1 - 15, Août 2009

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Number 16, Avril 2009

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Prayer to Ta pi hri tsa: A short exposition of the Base, the Path and the Fruit in Bon Dzogchen teachings (828 kb, pp. 5-41)
author: Ratka Jurkovic
The First Four Themes of Klong chen pa’s Tshig don bcu gcig pa (508 kb, pp. 43-73)
author: Daniel Scheidegger
Deux remarques à propos du développement du ra-btags en Tibétain parlé (124 kb, pp. 75-82)
author: Hiroyuki Suzuki
Book review of Gray Tuttle, Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China New York, Columbia University Press (288 kb, pp. 83-94)
author: Fabienne Jagou
Annonces de parution (92 kb, pp. 95-96)
author: Editors
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines - Déjà parus (196 kb, pp. 97-102)
author: Editors

Number 15, Novembre 2008 - Tibetan Studies in Honour of Samten Karmay, Part II

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Préambule (72 kb, p. 198)
author: Anne-Marie Blondeau
Le Réseau des mille dieux-démons: mythes et classifications (708 kb, pp. 199-250)
author: Anne-Marie Blondeau
Les bKa' brgyad - Sources canoniques et tradition de Nyang ral Myi ma 'od zer (444 kb, pp. 251-274)
author: Tenzin Samphel
The Sun of the Heart and the Bai-ro-rgyud-'bum (284 kb, pp. 275-288)
author: Matthew T. Kapstein
Enduring myths: smrang, rabs and ritual in the Dunhuang texts on Padmasambhava (428 kb, pp. 289-312)
author: Cathy Cantwell and Rob Mayer
The Malevolent Spirits of sTang Valley (Bumthang) — A Bhutanese account (304 kb, pp. 313-330)
author: Kunzang Choden
Tuvinian images of demons from Tibet (380 kb, pp. 331-336)
author: Peter Schwieger
The Buddhist princess and the woolly turban: non-Buddhist others in a 15th century biography (328 kb, pp. 337-356)
author: Hildegard Diemberger
The Cult of Radrap (Ra dgra), 'nep' of Wangdue Phodrang (Bhutan) (252 kb, pp. 357-370)
author: Tandin Dorji
mKha' 'gro dbang mo'i rnam thar, The Biography of the gTer ston ma bDe chen chos kyi dbang mo (1868-1927?) (188 kb, pp. 371-378)
author: Donatella Rossi
A tentative classification of the bya ru can kings of Zhang zhung (624 kb, pp. 379-420)
author: Roberto Vitali
sTon pa gShen rab: six Marriages and many more funerals (824 kb, pp. 421-480)
author: Henk Blezer
A nineteenth-century Bonpo pilgrim in Western Tibet and Nepal: Episodes from the life of dKar ru grub dbang bsTan 'dzin rin chen (392 kb, pp. 481-502)
author: Charles Ramble
Le Corps d'Arc-en-Ciel ('ja' lus) de Shardza Rinpoche illustrant la perfection de la Voie rDzogs chen (560 kb, pp. 503-532)
author: Jean-Luc Achard
Bonpo Tantrics in Kokonor Area (328 kb, pp. 533-552)
author: Tsering Thar

Number 14, Octobre 2008 - Tibetan Studies in Honour of Samten Karmay, Part I

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Cover, contents (172 kb, pp. 1-3)
Préface (130 kb, pp. iii)
author: Françoise Pommaret
How Samten came to Europe (130 kb, pp. 1-6)
author: David Snellgrove
"The Messed Up Books"(Pecha trok wa la). A personal recollection of Samten G. Karmay and the O rgyan chos gling catalogue (Bhutan) (131 kb, pp. 7-12)
author: Françoise Pommaret
Veil of Kashmir -- Poetry of Travel and Travail in Zhangzhungpa's 15th-Century Kavya Reworking of the Biography of the Great Translator Rinchen Zangpo (958-1055 CE) (648 kb, pp. 13-56)
author: Dan Martin
From Red Tally to Yellow Paper -- The official introduction of paper in Tibetan administration in 744/745 (288 kb, pp. 57-70)
author: Helga Uebach
A propos de l'usage des termes "nyin" et "srib" dans le mDo smad chos 'byung (205 kb, pp. 71-80)
author: Anne Chayet
Spelling Mistakes, Philology, and feminist Criticism: Women and Boys in Tibetan Medicine (329 kb, pp. 81-98)
author: Janet Gyatso
A preliminary note to the Gyarong color terms (315 kb, pp. 99-106)
author: Yasuhiko Nagano
Observations on an 11th century Tibetan inscription on a statue of Avalokitésvara (444 kb, pp. 107-116)
author: Amy Heller
Au-delà du débat linguistique : comment définir la littérature tibétaine d'expression chinoise? "Spécificités nationales" et "spécificités regionales" (687 kb, pp. 117-156)
author: Lara Maconi
sMar khams 'bom rnam snang ngam/ lha'dus rnam snang gi skor la cung zad gleng ba (171 kb, pp. 157-195)
author: Tashi Tsering

Number 13, Février 2008

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Deux noms tangoutes dans une légende tibétaine (251 kb, pp. 4-10)
author: Guillaume Jacques
Coiffe de pandit (6.9 MB, pp. 11-44)
author: Etienne Bock
Transgressing the Law: Karma, Theft and Its Punishment (940 kb, pp. 45-74)
author: Richard W. Whitecross
L'irruption de la nescience -- la notion d'errance samsarique dans le rDzogs chen (1.1 MB, pp. 75-108)
author: Jean-Luc Achard
Journal Table of Contents (164 kb, pp. )

Number 12, Mars 2007

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Le nom des naksatrani en tibétain (164 kb, pp. 4-10)
author: Guillaume Jacques
La Roca Blanca de Lhang lhang -- Un santuario en Nyag rong (416 kb, 11-23)
author: Oriol Aguillar
Different Sets of Channels in the Instructions Series of Rdzogs chen (452 kb, pp. 24-38)
author: Daniel Scheiddeger
De la cosmologie tibétaine au mythe de l'Etat -- Historiographie rnyingmapa tamang (Népal) (1.1 MB, 39-70)
author: Brigitte Steinmann
Tamang jatibare sangkshipta sabda citra << Traité sur l'origine de la caste tamang >> (trad. Brigitte Steinmann) (1.0 MB, pp. 71-102)
author: Thubten Gyalcen Lama
Book List of Tibetan History for Tamang Study (62 kb, pp. 103-105)
author: Thubten Gyalcen Lama
The Tibetan Image of Confucius (988 kb, pp. 105-129)
author: Shen-yu Lin
Journal Table of Contents (151 kb, pp. )

Number 11, Juin 2006 - The sGang steng-b rNying ma'i rGyud 'bum manuscript from Bhutan

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Introduction (206 kb, pp. 4-15)
author: Cathy Cantwell & Rob Mayer
The Catalogue section (1.3 MB, pp. 16-141)
author: Cathy Cantwell, Rob Mayer, Michael Kowalewky & Jean-Luc Achard
Journal Table of Contents (87 kb, pp. )