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
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
- Full text (4.4 MB)
- 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
Number 50, Juin 2019 - Tibetan Religion and the Senses
Number 49, Mai 2019 - Reflections on Social Status in the Tibetan World
- Full text (3 MB)
- Cover, contents (91 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Tibetan zero nominalization (96 kb, pp. 5-9)
author: Nathan W. Hill - Amdo politics and religion—Tuken Losang Choki Nyima (Thu’u bkwan Blo bzang chos kyi nyi ma, 1737-1802) (271 kb, pp. 10-35)
author: Paul K. Nietupski - A collection of Spiti songs sung at village festivals and private gatherings (271 kb, pp. 36-49)
author: Veronika Hein - The Mingled Melody: Remembering the Tibetan March 10th Uprising (387 kb, pp. 50-98)
author: Lama Jabb - An outline of the sound structure of Lhagang Choyu: A newly recognised highly endangered language in Khams Minyag (901 kb, pp. 99-151)
author: Hiroyuki Suzuki & Sonam Wangmo - Tibetan Studies and the Art of Dialogue (286 kb, pp. 152-169)
author: Sarah H. Jacoby - Pilgrimage Guide of the Tibetan Buddhist Holy Mountain Brag dkar sprel rdzong (185 kb, pp. 170-183)
author: Nakza Drolma - Material culture as proxy for language: the Himalayan evidence (2.3 MB, pp. 184-232)
author: Maheshwar P. Joshi - Compte-rendu de “Fabienne Jagou, The Hybridity of Buddhism, Etudes thématiques vol. 29, Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient, 2018” (104 kb, pp. 233-236)
author: Jean-Luc Achard
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
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- Cover, contents (167 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Drakngak Lingpa’s Pilgrimage Guides and the Progressive Opening of the Hidden Land of Pemakö (1.1 MB, pp. 5-52)
author: Elizabeth McDougal - Zamthang, epicentre of Zanskar’s rock art heritage (2 MB, pp. 53-105)
author: Martin Vernier - Tibetological Material in the Journal of the West China Border Research Society (123 kb, pp. 107-114)
author: Alex McKay - Side, stench, remnant, plot, oath, and craftiness — the semantic ‘capacity’ of the OT dku (532 kb, pp. 115-167)
author: Joanna Bialek - On some rDzogs chen aspects in a gCod Text from the Bla ma dgongs ’dus, a gTer ma collection discovered by Sangs rgyas gling pa (1341-1396) (336 kb, pp. 169-202)
author: Fabian Sanders & Margherita Pansa - The Lives of Bu ston Rin chen grub and the Date and Sources of His Chos 'byung, a Chronicle of Buddhism in India and Tibet (881 kb, pp. 203-308)
author: Leonard van der Kuijp - A Tibetan Grammatical Construction: verb + na go (369 kb, pp. 309-334)
author: Jonathan Silk
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
- Full text (359 kb)
- Cover, contents (75 kb, pp. 1-3)
- A propos des toponymes de l'épopée de Gesar (313 kb, pp. 4-29)
author: Anne Chayet - La naissance de Lhasin Devge Dolma : une genèse affective du so-cial (208 kb, pp. 30-42)
author: Brigitte Steinmann - Rig 'dzin Tshe dbang mchog grub (1761-1829) et la constitution du rNying ma rgyud 'bum de sDe dge (320 kb, pp. 43-89)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - Journal Table of Contents (51 kb, pp. )
