Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines
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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. Alice Travers (CNRS) and Charles Ramble (EPHE).
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Number 81, Février 2026 Northern Treasures Histories - Third Special Issue
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- A Final Review of the ANR-funded project “For a Critical History of the Northern Treasures” (559 kB, pp. 5-12)
author: Stéphane Arguillère - Introduction to the Third Special Issue “For a Critical History of the Northern Treasures” (251 kB, pp. 13-26)
author: Cécile Ducher - The Prayer of the Eighteen Great Omens: An Autobiographical Sketch of the Life of Rig ’dzin rGod ldem through Signs, Omens, and Symbols (293 kB, pp. 27-41)
author: Jay Valentine - Rig ’dzin rGod ldem, La stod Byang and the Historical Context of his Deeds (304 kB, pp. 42-72)
author: Roberto Vitali - Reconnaissance of Ri bo bkra bzang, the Seat of Rig ’dzin rGod kyi ldem ’phru can (784 kB, pp. 73-85)
author: John Vincent Bellezza - Here the key, Elsewhere the door: Notes on The General Introduction to the Hidden Lands (543 kB, pp. 86-127)
author: Zsóka Gelle - The General Introduction to the Hidden Lands: Diplomatic Edition and Translation (450 kB, pp. 128-165)
author: Martin Boord, with a foreword by Stéphane Arguillère - Prophecies, Legends, and Histories Concerning the Life of the Great Treasure Master: sNgags ’chang Shākya bzang po (857 kB, pp. 166-206)
author: Zsóka Gelle - A First Analytical Study on A Play of Kun tu bzang po’s Compassion, a Biography of the Northern Lord bKra shis stobs rgyas, བྱང་བདག་བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རྟོགས་བརྗོད་ཀུན་བཟང་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་ཟློས་གར་ལ་ཐོག་མའི་དབྱེ་ཞིབ། ད་ཀབཟང་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་ཟློས་གར་ལ་ཐོག་མའི་དབྱེ་ཞིབ། (359 kB, pp. 207-223)
author: gTsang phrug sTobs lags - The Role of Zur chen Chos dbyings rang grol in the Transmission of the Northern Treasures (1,1 Mo, pp. 224-266)
author: Alexandra Sukhanova - The Records of Teachings Received of the Fifth Yol mo sPrul sku Karma ’phrin las bdud ’joms as a Source for the Content and Transmission History of the Northern Treasures (Byang gter) (915 kb, pp. 267-326)
author: Alexander Schiller - Twice-Buried Treasures: Translation Project of Mongolian Treasure Literature by Prince Yunli (1697–1738) (353 kb, pp. 327-338)
author: Giigch Borjigin and Huseul Onggud - A Sketch of the Life of the Bāḥ gnas sPrul sku Thub bstan mdo sngags bShad sgrub rgyal mtshan (1888–1964) (211 kb, pp. 339-351)
author: Dylan Esler - The present and future of ’Khor gdong Monastery in Brag ’go (Khams, Eastern Tibet) and Siliguri (West Bengal, India) (438 kb, pp. 352-369)
author: Varvara Chatzisavva - bDe chen gling pa (1833–1893) and the cycle of the dGongs pa zang thal — A case of transmission of a Byang gter teaching in the New Bon tradition (327 kb, pp. 370-389)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - Philosophical Contemplations in Rig ’dzin rGod ldem’s Great Perfection Anthology (286 kb, pp. 390-413)
author: Katarina Turpeinen - From Ordinary Mortals to Lofty Parinirvāṇa: A Study of the bKa’ brgyad tshe sgrub (589 kb, pp. 414-447)
author: Kanako Shinga - Re-reading Eva Neumaier Dargyay’s “bKa’-brgyad rang-byung rang-shar, ein rDzogs chen Tantra:” A Reflection on Mahāyoga and Visionary rDzogs chen in Rig ’dzin rGod ldem’s Eight Pronouncements System (489 kb, pp. 448-489)
author: Stéphane Arguillère - The Ultimate Repelling Yamāntaka Practice: A Shared Ritual Repertoire Among the rNying ma Byang gter and the ʼBri gung bKaʼ brgyud Traditions Examined through the Texts of Chos kyi grags pa (618 kb, pp. 490-535)
author: Amanda N. Brown - The Multiple Identities of gNyan chen Thang lha in Byang gter (365 kb, pp. 536-568)
author: Wang Yuewei
Number 80, Janvier 2026 — Northern Treasures Histories – volume I — Before Rigdzin Gödem
Number 78, Juin 2025, Sprouts of Early Twentieth Century Tibetan National Consciousness
Number 77, Mai 2025, Responding to Epidemic Outbreaks in Tibetan Contexts
Number 75, Mars 2025, New Directions and Emergent Conversations in Tibetan Studies
Number 72, Juillet 2024, Proceedings of the IATS 2022 Panel
Number 71, Juin 2024, Tibet and the Oirats — The Oirat Legacy and the Origins of Tibetology
Number 69, Mars 2024, New Research on the Mi la ras pa Biographical Compendia
Number 68, Janvier 2024 - For A Critical History of the Northern Treasures — II
Number 64, Juillet 2022 - From Khyung lung to Lhasa, A Festschrift for Dan Martin
Number 62, Février 2022 - For A Critical History of the Northern Treasures
Number 55, Juillet 2020 - New Currents on the Neva River
Number 51, Juillet 2019 - Perspectives on Tibetan Culture
Number 50, Juin 2019 - Tibetan Religion and the Senses
Number 49, Mai 2019 - Reflections on Social Status in the Tibetan World
Number 44, Mars 2018 - Etudes rDzogs chen — Volume II
Number 43, Janvier 2018 - Etudes rDzogs chen — Volume I
Number 40, Juillet 2017 - Studies in The Tibetan Performing Arts
Number 38, Février 2017 - The Tulku (sprul sku) Institution in Tibetan Buddhism
Number 31, Février 2015 - Papers for Elliot Sperling
Cumulative Index, Table des Matières récapitulative, 1 - 15, Août 2009
Number 15, Novembre 2008 - Tibetan Studies in Honour of Samten Karmay, Part II
Number 14, Octobre 2008 - Tibetan Studies in Honour of Samten Karmay, Part I
Number 11, Juin 2006 - The sGang steng-b rNying ma'i rGyud 'bum manuscript from Bhutan
