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. Alice Travers (CNRS) and Charles Ramble (EPHE).
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Number 78, Juin 2025, Sprouts of Early Twentieth Century Tibetan National Consciousness
Number 77, Mai 2025, Responding to Epidemic Outbreaks in Tibetan Contexts
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- Introduction: Responding to Epidemic Outbreaks in Tibetan Contexts (147 kB, pp. 5-11)
author: William A. McGrath, Barbara Gerke, and Jan M. A. van der Valk - Dedication (97 kB, pp. 12-18)
author: Janet Gyatso - Bod kyi gso rig gi bdud rtsi bum pa zhig ’gyel song: Gso rig mkhas pa dbyangs dga’ lags tshe ’das su gyur bar mya ngan zhu (318 kB, pp. 19-26)
author: Yangbum Gyal - The Role of the Men-Tsee-Khang During COVID-19: Retrospective Reflections on Sowa Rigpa Pandemic Responses from Dharamsala (1.2 MB, pp. 27-57)
author: Rigzin Sangmo and Barbara Gerke - Translating “Immunity” in Sowa Rigpa: Neologisms of Protection and Prevention (356 kB, pp. 58-94)
author: Barbara Gerke and Florian Ploberger - Strategic Holisms: Documenting Online English-Language Sowa Rigpa Perspectives on COVID-19 (347 kB, pp. 95-127)
author: Jan M. A. van der Valk - Theriac Recipes (Dar ya kan) as the Ultimate Cure Against Epidemics in Two Tibetan Medico-Alchemical Collections of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (572 kB, pp. 128-186)
author: Carmen Simioli - The Wild Boar Amulet to Subdue Epidemics: Contextualizing the Hidden Practice of Secret Protection (gsang srung) in the Extended Commentary of the Four Tantras and in the Practice of the Wild Boar Wheel (462 kB, pp. 187-216)
author: Tony Chui
Number 75, Mars 2025, New Directions and Emergent Conversations in Tibetan Studies
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- Sixth International Seminar of Young Tibetologists Keynote Address: What Tibetan Studies Academics Can Learn from the Tibetan Traditional Education System and Vice-Versa (148 kB, pp. 5-12)
author: Ngawang Sonam - One Desires You, One Cries: A Taxonomy of Female Disciples in Great Perfection (rdzogs chen) (257 kB, pp. 13-33)
author: Kali Nyima Cape - An Article on Articles: Tibetan Debate and Translation (270 kB, pp. 34-52)
author: Jed Forman and Losang Donyo - Dispatches to the Spirit World: Orality, Literacy, and Power in Tibetan Letters to Gods and Oracles (208 kB, pp. 53–68)
author: Christina A. Kilby - Zhulen (Zhus lan) as Scripture: Authenticating Treasure in Medieval Tibet with Narratives (337 kb, pp. 69-92)
author: Jue Liang - Hearing Goddesses in Rivers: Contemplative Design and Religious Experience in the Great Perfection (236 kB, pp. 93-113)
author: Adam Liddle - The Dmyal gling rdzogs pa chen po, Social Kinds, and the Boundaries of Buddhism in Tibet (249 kB, pp. 114-133)
author: Natasha L. Mikles - Grags pa rgyal mtshan’s Case for Bowing to a Lay Lama (221 kB, pp. 134-148)
author: John Pickens - Did Gene Smith Invent Ris med?: The Dialogic Emergence of Tibetan Buddhist Pluralism in the 20th Century (289 kB, pp. 150-183)
author: Andrew S. Taylor - The Tibetan Diaspora and the Digital Landscape: Voices of Pluralistic and Decentralized Narratives (208 kB, pp. 187-208)
author: Tenzing Wangdak - “Lamaism is Not Buddhism!” — Public Criticism as a Catalyst for Localizing Tibetan Buddhism in Taiwan (359 kB, pp. 209-232)
author: Eben Yonnetti - The Chapter on the Theory of the Elements (’byung ba’i gnas) in Klong chen pa’s Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle (Theg mchog mdzod) (250 kB, pp. 233-254)
author: Devin Zuckerman
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- Assembling a Digital Toolkit: An Introduction to Text-mining for Modern Tibetan (986 kB, pp. 5-43)
author: Robert Barnett and James Engels - The Divergent Discourses Corpus: A Digital Collection of Early Tibetan Newspapers of the 1950s and 1960s (931 kB, pp. 44-80)
author: Franz Xaver Erhard - Enhanced ATR Accuracy for Tibetan Historical Texts: Optimising Image Pre-processing for Improved Transcription Quality (2.6 mb, pp. 81-127)
author: Christina Sabbagh - Text and Layout Recognition for Tibetan Newspapers with Transkribus (2.1 mb, pp. 128–171)
author: Franz Xaver Erhard - Foreign Names and Places in Tibetan Newspapers of the 1950s and 1960s (580 kb, pp. 172-186)
author: Franz Xaver Erhard und Xiaoying 笑影 - Leveraging Large Language Models in Low-resourced Language NLP: A spaCy Implementation for Modern Tibetan (1.3 mb, pp. 187-220)
author: Yuki Kyogoku, Franz Xaver Erhard, James Engels, and Robert Barnett - Religious Policy in the TAR, 2014–24: Topic Modelling a Tibetan-Language Corpus with BERTopic (1.1 mb, pp. 221-260)
author: Ronald Schwartz and Robert Barnett - Developing a Semantic Search Engine for Modern Tibetan (0.7 mb, pp. 261-283)
author: James Engels and Robert Barnett - The Tibet Mirror, “Friends” of Tibet, and the Internationalisation of the Tibet Question (0.7 mb, pp. 284-328)
author: Natalia Mikhailova
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- Political and Economic Geographies across the Eastern Himalayas: The Cost of Cross-Border Transportation in the 1940s-50s Kalimpong (584 kB, pp. 5-45)
author: Lucia Galli - The Bheda’s Pony — Horse breeding, castration, and trade in Spiti in the 18th–20th centuries (1.1 mb, pp. 46-103)
author: Yannick Laurent - Newly discovered rock paintings from Berinag (Uttarakhand, India) as mythograms (1 mb, pp. 104-123)
author: Maheshwar P. Joshi, Tarun Mahara, Vijay Bahuguna, Suresh C. Tamta, Piyush Bhatt, M.M. Joshi, C.P. Fuloria - Is there Beer in Tuṣita? Dialogue with the Fourth Karma pa, Rol pa’i rdo rje (1340–1383), about his Intermediate State (bar do) (331 kb, pp. 124-151)
author: Dominik Dell - Unfrozen Dragon: National Ethos and Identity in Bhutan as Constructed in Musical Performances at National Ceremonies (396 kb, pp. 152-171)
author: Yanfang Liou - Inner Asian Clans in Early Tibet and their Place in the Nyingmapa and Bon Traditions (236 kb, pp. 172-189)
author: Todd Gibson - Compte-rendu de “Deroche, Marc-Henri, Une Quête tibétaine de la sagesse: Prajñāraśmi (1518–1584) et l’attitude impartiale (ris med) (152 kb, pp. 190-196)
author: Andrew S. Taylor - Compte-rendu de “Cameron Bailey and Aleksandra Wenta (eds.), Tibetan Magic: Past and Present (143 kb, pp. 197-204)
author: Per Kværne - Compte-rendu de “Travers, Alice, Peter Schwieger and Charles Ramble, eds., Taxation in Tibetan Societies (231 kb, pp. 205-213)
author: Christian Jahoda
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
