Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines
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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
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
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 (250 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Preface: Ancient Currents, New Traditions (102 kb, pp. v-vii)
author: Franz Xaver Erhard, Jeannine Bischoff, Lewis Doney, Jörg Heimbel, Emilia Sulek - Keynote: A Story of Academic and Cultural Curiosity. Leipzig and the Rise of Tibetology in Germany (975 kb, pp. 1-12)
author: Per K. Sørensen - A Tibetan Protector Deity Theogony: An Eighteenth Century “Explicit” Buddhist Pantheon and Some of its Political Aspects (238 kb, pp. 13-28)
author: Cameron Bailey - Bod lugs zla ba ngos ‘dzin (320 kb, pp. 29-47)
author: Byams pa chos ’phel - Examining the Blo sbyong Component in Thogs med bzang po’s Collected Works (360 kb, pp. 48-68)
author: Gloria I-Ling Chien - A Richness of Detail: Sangs rgyas gling pa and the Padma bka’ thang (451 kb, pp. 69-97)
author: Lewis Doney - bKa’ brgyud Treasure and rNying ma Revealer: The Sras mkhar ma of Mar pa Lo tsā ba (401 kb, pp. 98-126)
author: Cécile Ducher - On the Historical Background of a Buddhist Polemical Exchange between Tibetan and Mongolian Scholars in the 19th Century (422 kb, pp. 127-144)
author: ErdeneBaatar Erdene-Ochir - The Disciplinarian (dge skos/ dge bskos/ chos khrims pa/ zhal ngo) in Tibetan Monasteries: his Role and his Rules (287 kb, pp. 145-161)
author: Berthe Jansen - A mdo, Collected Works (gSung ’bum), and Prosopography (750 kb, pp. 162-177)
author: Hanung Kim - Smartphones, Weixin and Beautiful Bodies: The Role of Mobile Technologies for Crafting Desired Selves in Lhasa (348 kb, pp. 178-206)
author: Anne Kukuczka - Translationship Lost in Transmission: Elusive Attributions of Two Tibetan Sūtra Translations (1.5 MB, pp. 207-230)
author: Channa Li - Buddhicizing the Warrior-King Gesar in the dMyal gling rDzogs pa Chen po (180 kb, pp. 231-246)
author: Natasha L. Mikles - Sketches of Contemporary Tibetan History in The Tibet Mirror (1949–1963) (246 kb, pp. 247-261)
author: Natalia Moskaleva - Old Tibetan Scapulimancy (229 kb, pp. 262-277)
author: Ai Nishida - A Study on nang zan: On the Reality of the “Servant Worker” in Traditional Tibetan Society (168 kb, pp. 278-292)
author: Kensaku Okawa - Are We Legend? Reconsidering Clan in Tibet (242 kb, pp. 293-314)
author: Jonathan Samuels - Foreign News in Early Tibetan-Language Newspapers: Covering Adolf Hitler in the Melong (954 kb, pp. 315-334)
author: Anna Sawerthal - sGam po pa’s Doctrinal System: A Programmatic Way to Buddhahood for Beings of Varying Capacity, Both Gradual and Sudden? (258 kb, pp. 335-351)
author: Rolf Scheuermann - The Pointed Spear of a Siddha and its Commentaries: The ’Brug pa bka’ brgyud School in Defence of the Mahāmudrā Doctrine (258 kb, pp. 352-373)
author: Dagmar Schwerk - Searching for Tibetanness: Tenzing Rigdol’s Attempt to Visualize Tibetan Identity (786 kb, pp. 374-390)
author: Eva Maria Seidel - The “Brilliant Moon Theriac” (Zla zil dar ya kan): A Preliminary Study of Mercury Processing According to the Vase of Amṛta of Immortality (’Chi med bdud rtsi bum pa) and its Influence on Tibetan Pharmacological literature (430 kb, pp. 391-419)
author: Carmen Simioli - gNa’ bo’i mon dang mon pa’i rus la dpyad pa (549 kb, pp. 420-450)
author: bsTan ’dzin chos ’phel - Labtse Construction and Differentiation in Rural Amdo (1.5 MB, pp. 451-468)
author: Rahel Tsering - Coming to Terms with Tibet: Scholarly Networks and the Production of the First “Modern” Tibetan Dictionaries (213 kb, pp. 469-489)
author: Markus Viehbeck - Characters in Modern Tibetan Fiction Set in Pre-1950s Central Tibet: Aristocrats, Common Folk and Others (348 kb, pp. 490-513)
author: Riika J. Virtanen - Between Family and Transmission Lineage: Two Historical Works of the rNgog bKa’ brgyud pa (422 kb, pp. 514-532)
author: Marco Walther - Preservation and Continuity: The Ache Lhamo Tradition Inside and Outside the Tibet Autonomous Region (238 kb, pp. 533-549)
author: Daniel Wojahn - Tracing the Chol kha gsum: Reexamining a Sa skya-Yuan Period Administrative Geography (295 kb, pp. 550-567)
author: Eveline Yang - Reorienting the Sacred and Accommodating the Secular: The History of Buddhism in China (rGya nag chos ’byung) (541 kb, pp. 568-590)
author: Fan Zhang - The Wholesome Streams (dGe ba’i chu rgyun): Tshe dbang nor bu’s Treatment of the Chinese Monk’s Simultaneist Approach to Awakening (307 kb, pp. 591-609)
author: Linghui Zhang
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