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
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 (92 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Introduction (115 kb, pp. 5-12)
author: Lucia Galli & Peter Schwieger - The Degraded Emperor: Theoretical Reflections on the Upstaging of a Bodhisattva King (389 kb, pp. 13-66)
author: Lewis Doney - The Invention of a Tibetan Lama General: a Biographical Account of Bla ma dkar po (1835–1895) (231 kb, pp. 67-92)
author: Lobsang Yongdan - Aspects of Social Status in the Biography of Doring Paṇḍita (263 kb, pp. 93-121)
author: Franz Xaver Erhard - All the Life We Cannot See: New-Historicist Approach to a Modern Tibetan Novel (240 kb, pp. 122-148)
author: Lucia Galli - The Tibetan Novel as Social History: Reflections on Trashi Palden’s Phal pa’i khyim tshang gi skyid sdug (323 kb, pp. 149-191)
author: Charles Ramble - Some Preliminary Reflections on the Boundary between Man and Animal in Pre-Modern Tibetan Society (123 kb, pp. 192-203)
author: Peter Schwieger - Horse and Social Status or How to Assess the Quality of a Horse (739 kb, pp. 204-232)
author: Petra Maurer - The Social Life of Excellent Horses (gyi ling): a Textual and Ethnographic Exploration (664 kb, pp. 233-257)
author: Yancen Diemberger and Hildegard Diemberger - May the Curd of g.yang Mature: a 14th-Century Allegory for the Domestication of Sheep (320 kb, pp. 258-270)
author: Alexander K. Smith - Some Preliminary Remarks on Human and Animal Materia Medica in Tibetan Medicine (355 kb, pp. 271-308)
author: Olaf Czaja
Number 44, Mars 2018 - Etudes rDzogs chen — Volume II
Number 43, Janvier 2018 - Etudes rDzogs chen — Volume I
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- Cover, contents (129 kb, pp. i-iv)
- The Swastika, Stepped Shrine, Priest, Horned Eagle, and Wild Yak Rider — Prominent antecedents of Yungdrung Bon figurative and symbolic traditions in the rock art of Upper Tibet (3.65 MB, pp. 5-38)
author: John Bellezza - The Strange Case of the “Buddha from Space” (670 kb, pp. 39-67)
author: Isrun Engelhardt - A Re-evaluation of Pelliot tibétain 1257: An Early Tibetan-Chinese Glossary from Dunhuang (3.1 MB, pp. 68-180)
author: James B. Apple and Shinobu A. Apple - Is it possible to write a “Tibetan” poem in French? Tentative reflections on Victor Segalen’s Thibet (333 kb, pp. 181-216)
author: Bai Yunfei - Studies in Tibetan Indigenous Grammar (4): A Sixteenth-century Survey of Sum rtags and Related Literature (Appendix: Sa skya Paṇḍita's Mkhas pa'i kha rgyan) (439 kb, pp. 217-245)
author: Pieter Cornelis Verhagen - Studies in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Hermeneutics (7): Sa skya Paṇḍita's Mkhas 'jug on the Sanskrit-Tibetan Interface: Synthesis, Comparison and Translation (259 kb, pp. 246-267)
author: Pieter Cornelis Verhagen - “Dying Mongol and Being Reborn Tibetan”: Otherness and the Integration of Foreigners in the Landscape of Amdo (445 kb, pp. 268-288)
author: Valentina Punzi - Compte rendu de : James Duncan Gentry. Power Objects in Tibetan Buddhism: The Life, Writings, and Legacy of Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen (130 kb, pp. 289-295)
author: Lewis Doney
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 (158 kb, pp. i-iv)
- An Indian Classic in 19th-Century Tibet and beyond: Rdza Dpal sprul and the Dissemination of the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra (336 kb, pp. 5-44)
author: Markus Viehbeck - Red Faced Barbarians, Benign Despots and Drunken Masters: Khotan as a Mirror to Tibet (373 kb, pp. 45-68)
author: Sam van Schaik - Women Returning from Death: The Gendered Nature of the Delog Role (336 kb, pp. 69-92)
author: Alyson Prude - In the Bosom of Khotan? A Dialogue between Image and Text (614 kb, pp. 93-119)
author: Yannick Laurent - Tibetans in Wakhan: New Information on Inscriptions and Rock Art (950 kb, pp. 121-141)
author: John Mock - The Nechung Record (1.2 MB, pp. 143-249)
author: Christopher Bell - A review of Nicolas Tournadre, Le Prisme des Langues (545 kb, pp. 251-258)
author: Bai Yunfei - Review of Lopen P. Ogyan Tanzin’s “tshangs-lha-ḥi tshig-mdzod-Tshanglha dictionary” (336 kb, pp. 259-280)
author: Timotheus Adrianus Bodt
Number 31, Février 2015 - Papers for Elliot Sperling
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- Cover, contents (147 kb, pp. 1-4)
- Zhangzhung dictionary: Introduction (287 kb, pp. 5-32)
author: Dan Martin - Zhangzhung dictionary (1.6 MB, pp. 33-253)
author: Dan Martin - Sommaire des anciens numéros (176 kb, pp. 254-260)
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
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- Cover, contents (78 kb, pp. 1-3)
- Deux noms tangoutes dans une légende tibétaine (251 kb, pp. 4-10)
author: Guillaume Jacques - Coiffe de pandit (6.9 MB, pp. 11-44)
author: Etienne Bock - Transgressing the Law: Karma, Theft and Its Punishment (940 kb, pp. 45-74)
author: Richard W. Whitecross - L'irruption de la nescience -- la notion d'errance samsarique dans le rDzogs chen (1.1 MB, pp. 75-108)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - Journal Table of Contents (164 kb, pp. )
Number 11, Juin 2006 - The sGang steng-b rNying ma'i rGyud 'bum manuscript from Bhutan
