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 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
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- Cover, contents (154 kb)
- Foreword (148 kb, pp. 5-9)
author: Alexander Zorin & Charles Ramble - Documents from the National Library of France related to the first Tibetan manuscripts in Europe and early Russian-French academic relations (905 kb, pp. 13-32)
author: Alla Sizova, Emanuela Garatti, & Nathalie Monnet - Ten demystified folios from Ablai-kit (6.3 mb, pp. 33-92)
author: Alexander Zorin & Charles Ramble - The samples of folios from Sem Palat and Ablai-kit preserved at the Hunterian Library of the University of Glasgow (4.2 mb, pp. 93-189)
author: Alexander Zorin, Anna Turanskaya, & Agnieszka Helman-Ważny - Codex Renatus Lincopensis” and two other Tibetan and Mongolian folios preserved in the Linköping City Library (1.1 mb, pp. 190-217)
author: Alexander Zorin, Anna Turanskaya, & Vadim Borodaev - Review of the book: Dmitry Ivanov. Buddiiskie kollektsii Kunstkamery [Buddhist Collections of the Kunstkamera]. Saint Petersburg: Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, RAS, 2021 (390 kb, pp. 218-229)
author: Alexander Zorin - Official documents in Mongolian language relating to the Fifth Dalai Lama’s visit to Beijing in 1652–1653 (327 kb, pp. 233-254)
author: Vladimir Uspensky - Sumpa Khenpo Yeshe Peljor and his ‘History of Kokonor’ (260 kb, pp. 255-277)
author: Irina Garri, Yumzhana Zhabon, & Hortsang Jigme - Lamas and Oirat migrations: religion and the exodus of Kalmyks’ main part in 1771 (352 kb, pp. 278-314)
author: Baatr Kitinov - Letter of Ubashi Khan from Labrang Monastery in the light of Tibetan sources on the relationship of Kalmyks with spiritual hierarchs (967 kb, pp. 315-342)
author: Bembya Mitruev - A brief survey of the monuments of the Kalmyk spiritual culture in the Kyiv collections of Ukraine (4.5 mb, pp. 345-392)
author: Olena Ogneva
Number 69, Mars 2024, New Research on the Mi la ras pa Biographical Compendia
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- Cover, contents (316 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Foreword (102 kb, pp. v-vi)
- Life and Songs of the Glorious Laughing Vajra, The “bZhad pa’i rDo rje Compendia (720 kb, pp. 7-48)
author: Kristin Blancke - Groping in the Dark Treasury. Exploring the Mi la bZhad pa’i rdo rje Compendia in light of a most peculiar manuscript (357 kb, pp. 49-156)
author: Etienne Bock - Appendixes (797 kb, pp. 157-223)
Number 68, Janvier 2024 - For A Critical History of the Northern Treasures — II
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- Cover, contents (146 kb, pp. i-iv)
- ‘Dul ba dpe ris: Didactic art on temple architecture in the dGe lugs tradition (3 MB, pp. 5-44)
author: Shiriin Barakzai - The Tibetan-Italian-Tibetan Dictionary of Fr. Orazio della Penna (1680–1745): An Untapped Resource for the History of Tibetan Language, Society and Early Buddhist-Christian Interreligious Contacts (714 kb, pp. 45-68)
author: Federica Venturi - Changing Bodies Seven Times: Padampa Sangyé’s Pacifying Tradition and the Birth of the Maṇi Pill (1.1 MB, pp. 69-153)
author: James Gentry - The Hundred Jātakas (sKyes rab brgya pa) by Āryaśūra (c. 4th cent. CE) and the Third Karma pa, Rang ’byung rdo rje (1284–1339): Overview of the Xylograph Editions (615 kb, pp. 154-191)
author: Dominik Dell, Bruno Galasek-Hul, & Lajos Dömötör - Stepping-Stones magazine – from studies of Buddhism in the Eastern Himalayas to the perspectives of the philosophy of perennialism (215 kb, pp. 192-208)
author: Denis A. Korablin - Compte-rendu de : Franz Xaver Erhard and Thomas Wild, Drumze — Metamorphoses of the Tibetan Carpet (120 kb, pp. 209-212)
author: Amy Heller - Compte-rendu de : John Harrison, Mustang Building: Tibetan Temples and Vernacular Architecture in Nepal Himalaya (152 kb, pp. 213-217)
author: Mark Aldenderfer - Compte-rendu de : John Vincent Bellezza, Besting the Best: Warriors and Warfare in the Cultural and Religious Traditions of Tibet (168 kb, pp. 218-225)
author: Per Kværne
Number 64, Juillet 2022 - From Khyung lung to Lhasa, A Festschrift for Dan Martin
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- Cover, contents (201 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Preface (171 kb, pp. v-xii)
author: Jonathan Silk & Leonard van der Kuijp - Erroneous Conceptions Frequently Shared about New Bon (Bon gsar) (261 kb, pp. 1-17)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - Antecedents of Bon, On rMa Folks and the Origins of gShen Ritual Specialists (298 kb, pp. 18-44)
author: Henk Blezer - A Short Text on the Four Phurpas attributed to Padmasambhava, passed down through the Transmitted Teachings (bka’ ma) (259 kb, pp. 45-56)
author: Cathy Cantwell - The Treasure Discoverer from Dwags-po: Two Texts on the Life of Chos-rje gling-pa (1682–1720) (330 kb, pp. 57-83)
author: Franz-Karl Ehrhard - Why Did the Cannibal King Fly? Tantric Transformations of an Indian Narrative in Tibet (522 kb, pp. 84-135)
author: James Gentry - The lion of Gung thang, A historical-ethnographic note on Tshal Gung thang (1.4 MB, pp. 136-160)
author: Guntram Hazod - An Early Maṇḍala of Cakrasaṃvara (675 kb, pp. 161-170)
author: Amy Heller - The Politico-Religious Meanings of the Potala Palace’s White and Red Palaces (388 kb, pp. 171-193)
author: Ishihama Yumiko - The Elusive American Tibetologist in Gendun Chöphel’s Life: “The First White Lama” (Theos Bernard) and Their Dream of Tibetland, California (4 MB, pp. 194-264)
author: David Jackson - Tibetan Legal Geography: Situating Legal Texts, Situating Sacred Tibet (331 kb, pp. 265-289)
author: Berthe Jansen - From Metaphor to Commentary and from Commentary to Catechism: The Formation of a Bon po Scriptural Corpus and Its Authentication (294 kb, pp. 290-306)
author: Matthew T. Kapstein - Studies in Btsun pa Ston gzhon’s Pramāṇavārttika Commentary of 1297 Part Two(a): ‘U yug pa Rigs pa’i seng ge (ca. 1195–after 1267) (394 kb, pp. 307-343)
author: Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp - C.A. Holmboe (1796-1882): The First Norwegian Scholar of Buddhism (179 kb, pp. 344-351)
author: Per Kværne - The Transmission of Information and Knowledge in the Early Qing Dynasty and the Activation of the Tibet-Khams Channel (877 kb, pp. 352-367)
author: Li Zhiying - Indian nidhi, Tibetan gter ma, Guru Chos dbang, and a Kriyātantra on Treasure Doors: Rethinking Treasure (part two) (860 kb, pp. 368-446)
author: Robert Mayer - The Long Arm of an Eighteenth-Century Bonpo Patron: Gyalrong and Dolpo between the Jinchuan Wars (290 kb, pp. 447-460)
author: Charles Ramble - What did the Chinese Warlord Liu Wenhui want from Pha bong kha (309 kb, pp. 461-478)
author: Peter Schwieger - The History of the Mountain Teachings: 13th century Practice Lineages at rTsib ri (538 kb, pp. 479-515)
author: Marta Sernesi - A Dunhuang Tibetan Poem Praising Amitābha and Its Rebirth Among the Gter ma (841 kb, pp. 516-613)
author: Jonathan A. Silk - The 1983 Copy of Kötenʼs 1244 Letter to Sa skya Paṇḍita (435 kb, pp. 614-628)
author: Sun Penghao & Chen Qingying - Images of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama in the Public Opinion of the Late Qing Period (393 kb, pp. 629-655)
author: Yudru Tsomu - Travel, Love and Lost Things: The earliest Sino-Tibetan Divination Manuscript (902 kb, pp. 656-679)
author: Sam Van Schaik - The Khyung po, Dor ta and Rtse drug: War and Peace in Steng chen during the pre-Yuan years (372 kb, pp. 680-707)
author: Roberto Vitali - A Stone Carved Old Tibetan Tshe dpag du myed pa’I mdo Found in Leb ‘khog of Yu shul, Qinghai Province (656 kb, pp. 708-735)
author: Zhang Changhong
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
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- Cover, contents (152 kb, pp. 1-4)
- Tāranātha on the Emergence of the Tantric Cycle of Vajrabhairava-Yamāntaka: Writing a Tibetan Buddhist Historiography in Seventeenth-Century Tibet (492 kb, pp. 5-52)
author: Aleksandra Wenta - L’Allemagne au-dessus de l’Himalaya : des SS sur le toit du monde (684 kb, pp. 53-109)
author: Charlie Caron-Belloni - “Feast of the Wise”: Author, Structure and Textual Witnesses of the 16th Century Religio-Historical Work Chos ’byung mkhas pa’i dga’ ston by the Second dPa’ bo, gTsug lag phreng ba (1504–1566) (543 kb, pp. 110-165)
author: Dominik Dell - The Sum-pa – nomads of the northern plateau. On the issue of the Sum-pa tribesꞌ settlement area (307 kb, pp. 166-183)
author: Mariia Sokhina - rDo rje Sems dpa’ Nam mkha’ che’i rGyud — An Analysis of the Tantra of the Total Space of Vajrasattva (274 kb, pp. 184-208)
author: Adriano Clemente - Comparing Historical Tibetan Population Estimates with the Monks and Nuns: What was the Clerical Proportion? (2 MB, pp. 209-231)
author: Karl E. Ryavec & Rocco N. Bowman - The Newly Identified Saint Petersburg Manuscript of the Collection of Songs by the 6th Dalai Lama: the Text (3.1 MB, pp. 232-275)
author: Alexander Zorin - Tibetan Buddhist Vanguards among the Mongols and Manchus, 1576-1638 (360 kb, pp. 276-299)
author: Gray Tuttle & Lan Wu - Game Changers of the Tibetan Buddhist Political Order in Central Asia in the Early Eighteenth Century (310 kb, pp. 300-322)
author: Darig Thokmay - Remarks on the term tshad ma’i skyes bu and the notion of novelty of valid cognition in the bKa’ brgyud tradition (295 kb, pp. 323-338)
author: Artur Przybyslawski - Naming the empire: from Bod to Tibet—A philologico-historical study on the origin of the polity (1.1 MB, pp. 339-402)
author: Joanna Bialek - A Tibetan History of Lesser Knowledge: The Coming of Poetry in The Five Minor Fields of Learning (314 kb, pp. 403-420)
author: Tenzin Tsepak
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- Cover, contents (137 kb, pp. 1-4)
- An Old Tibetan Dunhuang Manuscript of the Avaivartikacakrasūtra in the Stein Collection collated with Tibetan Kanjurs (2.4 MB, pp. 5-333)
author: James B. Apple
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