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
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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
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- Cover, contents (95 kb, pp. i-v)
- Regional Perspectives on the Origin and Early Spread of the Bon Religion based on Core Areas of Monastery Construction across the Tibetan Plateau (1.2 MB, pp. 5-27)
author: Karl E. Ryavec - Survey of the language use by Urban, Minyag-speaking — Tibetans: A case study on Minyag people living in Lucheng Town, Kangding Municipality, Ganzi Prefecture (193 kb, pp. 28-46)
author: Dawa Drolma - A Tibetan Journey - Interview with Samten G. Karmay (450 kb, pp. 47-65)
author: Katia Buffetrille - Wrathful and Peaceful Sound: Musical and Religious Logics of the Two-armed Mahākāla Ritual (470 kb, pp. 66-94)
author: Yanfang Liou - Tibetan Refugees in India: The Challenges of Applying for Indian Citizenship (403 kb, pp. 95-113)
author: Abhinav Seetharaman - On the Life of Chos rgyal bsod nams (1442-1509): Unlocking the Mysteries of a Byang gter Master from Mustang (266 kb, pp. 114-146)
author: Jay Holt Valentine - The Brief Hagiography of Jokpa Jangchup Penden (1.9 MB, pp. 147-195)
author: Christopher Bell - “Mom, Can I Become a Han Officer?” Childhood Memories, Politics, Emancipation and Intimacy in the Chinese-Written Autobiographical Essays of Blo gros chos mtsho, a Khampa Woman (1909/1910–1949) (629 kb, pp. 196-240)
author: Lara Maconi - From Sūtra Collections to Kanjurs: Tracing a Network of Buddhist Canonical Literature across the Western and Central Himalayas (498 kb, pp. 241-260)
author: Markus Viehbeck - Henrion-Dourcy, Isabelle, 2017. Le théâtre ache lhamo. Jeux et enjeux d’une tradition tibétaine (105 kb, pp. 261-266)
author: Dylan Esler - Geoff Childs and Namgyal Choedup’s From a Trickle to a Torrent: Education, Migration, and Social Change in a Himalayan Valley of Nepal (96 kb, pp. 267-270)
author: Hanna Havnevik - Jinah Kim: Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia (92 kb, pp. 271-274)
author: Patrick Dowd - Karl Debreczeny (ed.): Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism (118 kb, pp. 275-279)
author: Jean-Luc Achard
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
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- Cover, contents (177 kb, pp. i-iv)
- The Graves of the Chief Ministers of the Tibetan Empire — Mapping Chapter Two of the Old Tibetan Chronicle in the Light of the Evidence of the Tibetan Tumulus Tradition (7.2 MB, pp. 5-159)
author: Guntram Hazod
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
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- Cover, contents (146 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Sorcerer of the Iron Castle: The Life of Blo bzang bstan pa rab rgyas, the First Brag dkar sngags rams pa of A mdo (c. 1647-1726) (561 kb, pp. 5–59)
author: Bryan J. Cuevas - The Khache Phalu: A Translation and Interpretation (545 kb, pp. 60-132)
author: Nicolas Bommarito - Introduction to and Translation of The Garland of Light: Lives of the Masters of the Northern Treasure Tradition (393 kb, pp. 133-165)
author: Jay Holt Valentine - Notes apropos to the Œuvre of Si tu Paṇ chen Chos kyi 'byung gnas (1699?-1774) (5) — The 'Eight-Stanza Hymn to Mahākāla': A Glimpse of the Translator at Work (545 kb, pp. 166-228)
author: Pieter Cornelis Verhagen - On Maṇi and Epigraphy — Four Stone Inscriptions from Spiti (2.2 MB, pp. 229-265)
author: Yannick Laurent - Tibetan documents in the archives of the Tantric Lamas of Tshognam in Mustang, Nepal: An interdisciplinary case study (2.4 MB, pp. 266-341)
author: Agnieszka Helman-Ważny & Charles Ramble - Materials Toward the Study of Vasubandhu’s Viṁśikā (II): An edition of the Dunhuang Manuscript Pelliot tibétain 797 (315 kb, pp. 342-360)
author: Jonathan A. Silk - A review of Janet Gyatso. Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (135 kb, pp. 361-366)
author: Cathy Cantwell
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
