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
Number 55, Juillet 2020 - New Currents on the Neva River
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- Cover, contents (278 kb, pp. i-v)
- Editorial (120 kb, pp. vi-x)
author: Natalia Moskaleva, Franz Xaver Erhard, Daniel Wojahn, Jed Forman, and Maria Smirnova - Keynote: Tibetan Studies in Saint Petersburg: Past and Present (201 kb, pp. 1–14)
author: Vladimir Uspensky - Sounds of Speech and the Tiger’s Roar: Two Different Ways of Perceiving Vocal Music in Tibet in the 13th–17th Centuries (549 kb, pp. 15–34)
author: Polina Butsyk - Tantric Constraints in the Tibetan Medical Tradition: Theocratic Dynamics in Medical Practice (263 kb, pp. 35–53)
author: Tony Chui - Releasing Lives on the Grasslands of Amdo: Entanglements of Human and Animal Vitality (294 kb, pp. 54–78)
author: Maria Coma-Santasusana - A Yak, Na rak and Potalaka: Folios of the So-Called “Gyalpo Kachem” in US Museum Collections (509 kb, pp. 79–120)
author: Lewis Doney - Goldmine of Knowledge: The Collections of the Gnas bcu lha khang in ’Bras spungs Library (255 kb, pp. 121–139)
author: Cécile Ducher - Re-adapting a Buddhist Mother’s Authority in the Gung ru Female Sprul sku Lineage (401 kb, pp. 140–160)
author: Peter F. Faggen - “The Problem of Universals in Yogic Perception and Tsong kha pa’s Solution (347 kb, pp. 161–181)
author: Jed Forman - Resurrecting an Old Advice: Funerary Teachings in the Bka’ brgyad Cycle of Nyang ral nyi ma ’od zer (1124–1192) (259 kb, pp. 182–196)
author: Guy Grizman - Buddhist Tradition, Catalogued: Kingship and Nonsectarian Traces in an Early 18th-Century Dkar chag from Sde dge (335 kb, pp. 197–220)
author: Eric Haynie - The Origins of Tibetan Law: Some Notes on Intertextuality and the Reception History of Tibetan Legal Texts (322 kb, pp. 221–244)
author: Berthe Jansen - Reincarnation at Work: A Case Study of the Incarnation Lineage of Sum pa mkhan po (337 kb, pp. 245–268)
author: Hanung Kim - Treatise on Writing, Treatise on Music: Comparing Terminology (330 kb, pp. 269–291)
author: Anna Kramskova - Questioning Women: Ye shes mtsho rgyal and Other Female Disciples in Zhus lan Literature (340 kb, pp. 292–317)
author: Jue Liang - Prophecies and Past Lives of the Sde srid Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho: On Interpretation and Authority in a Tibetan ’Khrungs rabs (882 kb, pp. 318–350)
author: Ian MacCormack - The Ming, Tibetan and Mongol Interactions in Shaping the Ming Fortification, Multicultural Society and Natural Landscape in Mdo smad, 1368–1644 (670 kb, pp. 351–384)
author: Gyatso Marnyi - The Monstrous and the Moral: Interpreting King Yama’s Narratological Arc in Returner Literature (271 kb, pp. 385–408)
author: Natasha L. Mikles - The Tibet Mirror and History Spinning in the 1950s and 1960s (347 kb, pp. 409–439)
author: Natalia Moskaleva - Shugs ldan and the Dalai Lama: A Conflict of Political Legitimation Processes? (340 kb, pp. 440–461)
author: Frédéric Richard - Tibetan Manuscript on Birchbark from the Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS (1 MB, pp. 462–474)
author: Alla Sizova - Study of the Tibetan Linguistic Picture of the World Using Computer Ontology (326 kb, pp. 475–494)
author: Maria Smirnova - Curating a Treasure: The Bka’ brgyad bde gshegs ’dus pa in the Development of Rnying ma Tradition (305 kb, pp. 495-521)
author: Nicholas Trautz - Teaching the Living through the Tibetan Book of the Dead: Exploration into the Context and Content of an 18th-century Mongolian Block Print (392 kb, pp. 522-553)
author: Daniel Wojahn
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
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- Cover, contents (124 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Studying the Tibetan Performing Arts: A Bibliographic Introduction (1986-2017) (444 kb, pp. 5–54)
author: Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy - Regulating the Performing Arts: Buddhist Canon Law on the Performance and Consumption of Music in Tibet (363 kb, pp. 55-91)
author: Cuilan Liu - Listening with the Gods: Offering, Beauty and Being in Tibetan Ritual Music (155 kb, pp. 92-102)
author: Michael Monhart - Looking Back at Tibetan Performing Arts Research by Tibetans in the People’s Republic of China: Advocating for an Anthropological Approach (315 kb, pp. 103-125)
author: Sangye Dondhup - Lyrics Matter: Reconsidering Agency in the Discourses and Practices of Tibetan Pop Music among Tibetan Refugees (324 kb, pp. 126-152)
author: Tatsuya Yamamoto - Lineage in the Digital Age: Didactic Practices of the Nepal Tibetan Lhamo Association and Tibet University Arts Department Tibetan Opera Class (834 kb, pp. 153-178)
author: Kati Fitzgerald - The Art of the Tibetan Actor: A lce lha mo in the gaze of Western Performance Theories (1.2 MB, pp. 179-215)
author: Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy - Notes on Contributors (94 kb, pp. 216-217)
Number 38, Février 2017 - The Tulku (sprul sku) Institution in Tibetan Buddhism
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- Cover, contents (147 kb, pp. i-iv)
- 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
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- Cover, contents (473 kb, pp. i-x)
- Self-Immolation in Tibet: Some Reflections on an Unfolding History (1.9 MB, pp. 1-17)
author: Katia Buffetrille - Self Immolation, the Changing Language of Protest in Tibet (539 kb, pp. 19-40)
author: Tsering Shakya - Political Self-Immolation in Tibet: Causes and Influences (513 kb, pp. 41-64)
author: Robert Barnett - Kīrti Monastery of Ngawa: Its History and Recent Situation (819 kb, pp. 65-80)
author: Daniel Berounský - Chinese Policy Towards Tibet versus Tibetan Expectations for Tibet: A Divergence Marked by Self-Immolations (1.2 MB, pp. 81-87)
author: Fabienne Jagou - Conversations and Debates: Chinese and Tibetan Engagement with the Broader Discussion of Self-Immolation in Tibet (482 kb, pp. 89-97)
author: Elliot Sperling - Online Articles on Self-immolation by Tibetans in Exile — A Brief Survey (182 kb, pp. 99-104)
author: Chung Tsering - bTsan byol bod mi'i drwa thog bod yig dpyad rtsom nas rang lus mer bsregs la blta ba (1.9 MB, pp. 105-112)
author: Chung Tshe ring - The Flames of Poetry Spreading From the Fire of Heroes (1.9 MB, pp. 113-122)
author: Noyontsang Lhamokyab - Fire, Flames and Ashes. How Tibetan Poets Talk about Self-Immolations without Talking about Them (344 kb, pp. 123-131)
author: Françoise Robin - Fire and Death in Western Imagination (228 kb, pp. 133-141)
author: Michel Vovelle - Self-Immolation in Context, 1963-2012 (781 kb, pp. 143-150)
author: Michael Biggs - Immolation in a Global Muslim Society Revolt against Authority — Transgression of Strict Religious Laws (248 kb, pp. 151-157)
author: Dominique Avon - Self-Immolations by Kurdish Activists in Turkey and Europe (254 kb, pp. 159-168)
author: Olivier Grojean - The Arab Revolutions and Self-Immolation (252 kb, pp. 169-179)
author: Farhad Khosrokhavar - Self-Immolation by Fire versus Legitimate Violence in the Hindu Context (245 kb, pp. 181-189)
author: Marie Lecomte-Tilouine - Immolations in Japan (322 kb, pp. 191-201)
author: François Macé - Multiple Meanings of Buddhist Self-Immolation in China — A Historical Perspective (237 kb, pp. 203-212)
author: James A. Benn
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
