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 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
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- Cover, contents (186 kb, pp. i-iv)
- The Zurkhang (zur khang; Adjunct House) in 1950s Kyidron (884 kb, pp. 5-25)
author: Geoff Childs - The Transmission Lineages of the Raktayamāri Tantric Cycles in the Sa skya Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism: The Gshin rje chos ’byung of A mes zhabs Ngag dbang kun dga’ bsod nams (1597–1659) (475 kb, pp. 26-69)
author: Aleksandra Wenta - The salt trips in Tibet and the Himalayas: extraction and trade in pre-modern times (329 kb, pp. 70-103)
author: Santiago Lazcano - The Place of Dan ’bag pa sMra ba’i seng ge in the Tibetan Epistemological Tradition (280 kb, pp. 104-126)
author: Jonathan Stoltz - Against Pilgrimage: Materiality, Place, and Ambivalence in Tibetan Pilgrimage Literature (428 kb, pp. 127-158)
author: Catherine Hartmann - Empty Iridescent Spheres. Notes on the Metaphysics of Light in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Tantric Sources (375 kb, pp. 159-186)
author: Giacomella Orofino - Compte-rendu de Cuevas, J. Bryan. The Rwa Pod and Other ‘Lost’ Works of Rwa Lo tsā ba’s Vajrabhairava Tradition (183 kb, pp. 187-193)
author: Aleksandra Wenta - Compte-rendu de Hartmut Walravens, Agnes Stache-Weiske. Der Linguist Anton Schiefner (1817–1879) und sein Netzwerk (169 kb, pp. 194-199)
author: Alexander Zorin - Compte-rendu de Karine Gagné. Caring for Glaciers, Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas (104 kb, pp. 200-202)
author: Patrick Kaplanian - Compte-rendu de Christian Jahoda et Christiane Kalantari. Early West Tibetan Buddhist Monuments. Architecture, Art, History and Texts (135 kb, pp. 203-206)
author: Patrick Kaplanian
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
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- Cover, contents (192 kb, pp. 1-4)
- Introduction — For A Critical History of the Northern Treasures (261 kb, pp. 5-21)
author: Stéphane Arguillère - Introduction to the Contents of this Special Issue (164 kb, pp. 22-28)
author: Jay Valentine - The rDo rje in the Details: A Note on sNa nam rDo rje bdud ‘joms (fl. eighth century) and His Role in Bringing Padmasambhava to Tibet (307 kb, pp. 29-50)
author: Elizabeth Angowski - The Longevity Practice of Vajrakīla Revealed by Rig 'dzin rGod ldem can: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the rDo rje phur pa'i tshe bsgrub (588 kb, pp. 51-90)
author: Kanako Shinga - The Life and Identity of mNga' ris Paṇ chen Padma dbang rgyal (1487-1542) – the Outstanding Master from Mustang, the “Ordinary Bodily Being” (1.3 MB, pp. 91-131)
author: Alexandra Sukhanova - The Heart Drops of Samantabhadra (Kun bzang snying tig) as revealed by mNga’ris paṇ chen (Padma dbang rgyal, 1487–1542) (387 kb, pp. 132-163)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - Tsi’u dmar po: How a Northern Treasure God Became Ecumenical (548 kb, pp. 164-189)
author: Christopher Bell - Yamāntaka’s Wrathful Magic: An Instance of the Ritual Legacy of gNubs chen Sangs rgyas ye shes on the Byang gter Tradition via the Figure of rGya Zhang khrom (317 kb, pp. 190-215)
author: Dylan Esler - An Introduction to The Chariot of Marvels: Northern Treasure Master Padma 'phrin las's Memoir of a Journey to Byang Ngam ring in 1690 (330 kb, pp. 216-232)
author: Jay Valentine - A History of the dGongs pa zang thal practice manuals (657 kb, pp. 233-298)
author: Stéphane Arguillère - Byang gter Bibliography (151 kb, pp. 299-305)
author: Jay Valentine & Stéphane Arguillère
Number 55, Juillet 2020 - New Currents on the Neva River
Number 51, Juillet 2019 - Perspectives on Tibetan Culture
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- Cover, contents (292 kb, pp. i-viii, pp. 9-13)
- “dByar rtswa dgun ’bu is a Marvellous Thing”. Some Notes on the Concept of Ophiocordyceps sinensis among Tibetan People and its Significance in Tibetan Medicine (118 kb, pp. 15-38)
author: Alessandro Boesi - Ladakhi Knowledge and Western Learning: A. H. Francke’s Teachers, Guides and Friends in the Western Himalaya (945 kb, pp. 39-72)
author: John Bray - A Condensed Catalogue of 16th Century Tibetan Xylographs from South-Western Tibet (138 kb, pp. 73-98)
author: Michela Clemente - The Historical Development of Tibetan “Minzu” Identity through Chinese Eyes: A Preliminary Analysis (173 kb, pp. 99-118)
author: Mauro Crocenzi - Apropos a Recent Collection of Tibetan Xylographs from the 15th to the 17th Centuries (127 kb, pp. 119-140)
author: Franz Karl Ehrhard and Marta Sernesi - Ein Kanjurtext auf Gebetsfahnen: Dhvajāgrakeyūradhāraṇī, rGyal mtshan gyi rtse mo’i dpung rgyan ces bya ba’i gzungs (202 kb, pp. 141-157)
author: Helmut Eimer - Three Ancient Manuscripts from Tholing in the Tucci Collection, IsIAO, Roma, Part III: Manuscript 1329 F (849 kb, pp. 159-170)
author: Amy Heller - A g.yung drung bon description of Mount Kailāśa Gangs Ti se) (118 kb, pp. 171-187)
author: Per Kværne - Note in margine all’archivio fotografico di Fosco Maraini (941 kb, pp. 189-202)
author: Erberto Lo Bue - A Crucial Link in 15th-century Tibetan Art (2 MB, pp. 203-226)
author: Christian Luczanits - The Bla ma mchod pa tshogs zhing of the dGe lugs pa Tradition: Introductory Analysis to the Iconography of the Oldest Images of the “Field of the Accumulation of Merits” (1.2 MB, pp. 227-244)
author: Filippo Lunardo - The Monastery of Tholing in 1933 (3 MB, pp. 245-273)
author: Oscar Nalesini - The Great Seal and the Path of Means according to Par phu pa Blo gros seng ge (175 kb, pp. 275-300)
author: Marco Passavanti - The Don gsum (Three Teachings) of Lady Co za Bon mo. A Bon po gter ma from the G. Tucci Tibetan Fund (130 kb, pp. 301-321)
author: Donatella Rossi - The Appearance of gcod in the rNying ma School (151 kb, pp. 323-336)
author: Fabian Sanders and Margherita Pansa - Manuscript Fragments from Matho. A Preliminary Report and Random Reflections (1.6 MB, pp. 337-378)
author: Helmut Tauscher - Mi la ras pa on the Intermediate State: An Introduction and Translation of “Profound Instructions on the Direct Introduction to the Intermediate State, Using the Mind to Discriminate the Path” (128 kb, pp. 379-403)
author: Francis Tiso - The Great Maṇi Wall Inscription at Hemis revisited (181 kb, pp. 405-414)
author: Helga Uebach and Jampa L. Panglung - A gnas yig to the Holy Place of Pretapurī (519 kb, pp. 415-447)
author: Federica Venturi - Hor khrims and the Tibetans: A Recapitulation of its Enforcements in the Years 1240-1260 (115 kb, pp. 449-468)
author: Roberto Vitali
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
