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 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
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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
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- Cover, contents (137 kb, pp. 1-4)
- “Giving a Meaning to an Illusory Wealth.” A Trader’s Pilgrimage (532 kb, pp. 5-59)
author: Lucia Galli - Misdiagnosis or Political Assassination? Re-examining the Death of Panchen Lama Lobsang Palden Yeshe from Smallpox in 1780 (309 kb, pp. 60-80)
author: Lobsang Yongdan - Birthplace of the Seventh Karma pa, Chos grags rgya mtsho (1454–1506): Description draws from Tibetan Geomancy and Pilgrimage Guidebooks (381 kb, pp. 81-102)
author: Dominik Dell - Human Engagement on Manuscript Margins: Glimpses into the Social Life of a Collection of Buddhist Sūtras from Mustang (3 MB, pp. 103-138)
author: Markus Viehbeck - Entangled Objects: Gift, Reciprocity and the Making of the Imperial Subject in 18th Century Tibet (364 kb, pp. 139-164)
author: Riga Tsegyal Shakya - The Old sNar thang Tibetan Buddhist Canon Revisited, with Special Reference to dBus pa blo gsal’s bsTan ’gyur Catalogue (502 kb, pp. 165-207)
author: Orna Almogi - “Empty Like the Sky”: Polysemy and the Problem of “Mere Clear Awareness” at the Intersection of Sūtra and Tantra in Fifteenth-century Tibet (406 kb, pp. 208-236)
author: Rae Dachille - On the Version of the Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra Used in the 18th Century Kalmyk Scrolls (739 kb, pp. 237-266)
author: Alexander Zorin - Tibetan Expertise in Sanskrit Grammar (5): Two Blo gros brtan pas on Vyākaraṇa – So many Sthiramatis (5.7 MB, pp. 267-300)
author: Peter Verhagen - Compte-rendu de : Jeannine Bischoff, Petra Maurer, and Charles Ramble (eds.), On a Day of a Month of the Fire Bird Year. Festschrift for Peter Schwieger on the occasion of his 65th birthday (147 kb, pp. 301-305)
author: Per Kværne - Compte-rendu de : Alexander Kingsbury Smith, Divination in Exile. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ritual Prognostication in the Tibetan Bon Tradition (134 kb, pp. 306-310)
author: Per Kværne
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
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- Contribution, Attribution, and Selective Lineal Amnesia in the Case of Mahāyogin dPal dbyangs (764 kb, pp. 1-23)
author: Kammie Takahashi - Reanimating the Great Yogin: On the Composition of the Biographies of the Madman of Tsang (1452-1507) (490 kb, pp. 25-49)
author: David M. DiValerio - The contribution of corpus linguistics to lexicography and the future of Tibetan dictionaries (6.6 MB, pp. 51–86)
author: Edward Garrett, Nathan W. Hill, Adam Kilgarriff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi, Abel Zadoks - Opening the Eyes of Faith: Constructing Tradition in a Sixteenth- Century Catalogue of Tibetan Religious Poetry (5.7 MB, pp. 87-151)
author: Stefan Larsson and Andrew Quintman - Quelques remarques linguistiques sur le tibétain de Lhagang, « l’endroit préféré par le Bodhisattva » (958 kb, pp. 153-175)
author: Hiroyuki SUZUKI and Sonam Wangmo - Book review of Zangdok Palri: The Lotus Light Palace of Guru Rinpoche: Visions of the Buddhist Paradise in the Sacred Kingdom of Bhutan (243 kb, pp. 177–183)
author: Rob Mayer - Book review of L'épopée tibétaine de Gesar. Manuscrit bon-po Fonds A. David-Néel du musée national des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet (136 kb, pp. 185–188)
author: Per Kværne
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