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
Number 44, Mars 2018 - Etudes rDzogs chen — Volume II
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- Cover, contents (129 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Préface (110 kb, pp. 5-8)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - Muddy Waters and Blurred Lines: A ro ye shes ‘byung gnas and the Anomalous Origins of the rDzogs pa chen po Sems sde A ro lugs (227 kb, pp. 9-30)
author: Morten Ostensen - From treatise to tantra: the Pure Golden Ore (rDo la gser zhun) and the Tantra of Meditation on Bodhicitta (Byang chub sems bsgom pa'i rgyud) (579 kb, pp. 31-108)
author: Karen Liljenberg - A Record of the Teachings of the Great Perfection in the Twelfth-century Zur Tradition (258 kb, pp. 109-128)
author: Matthew T. Kapstein - On Being ‘Impartial’ (ris med): From Non-Sectarianism to the Great Perfection (435 kb, pp. 129-158)
author: Marc-Henri Deroche - A Luminous Transcendence of Views: The Thirty Apophatic Topics in dPal dbyangs's Thugs kyi sgron ma (297 kb, pp. 159-177)
author: Kammie Takahashi - Immeasurable, Yet No Bigger than Your Thumb: The Tshon Gang in Bon Dzogchen (622 kb, pp. 178-230)
author: Kurt Keutzer - Zhang Nyi ma ‘bum (1158–1213) et le développement des sNying thig au 12e siècle (447 kb, pp. 231-257)
author: Jean-Luc Achard
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 (197 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Editorial: Female Specialists between Autonomy and Ambivalence (143 kb, pp. i-viii)
author: Mona Schrempf & Nicola Schneider - Born to Practice: The Sakya Jetsunma Phenomenon (352 kb, pp. 1-20)
author: Elisabeth Benard - Heroic Destinies and Petty Claims: Women and the Transformation of Shamanic Practices in the Hills of Nepal (262 kb, pp. 21-34)
author: Anne de Sales - Female Temple Founders, Ritualists, and Clairvoyants in Post-Socialist Mongolian Buddhism (401 kb, pp. 35-52)
author: Hanna Havnevik - Gender and Medicine in Kham: An Analysis of the Medical Work and Life of Derge Phurpa Dolma (344 kb, pp. 53-77)
author: Theresia Hofer - Relational Autonomy in the Life of a Contemporary Tibetan Ḍākinī (430 kb, pp. 79-113)
author: Sarah Jacoby - Empowering Religious Women Practitioners in Contemporary Bhutan (250 kb, pp. 115-139)
author: Françoise Pommaret - Fieldnotes on my Stay with a Neljom Teacher and her Disciples in Western Bhutan (213 kb, pp. 139-151)
author: Johanna Prien - Caring for Women’s Words and Women’s Bodies. A Field Note on Palmo and her “Demoness Welfare Association for Women” (225 kb, pp. 153-169)
author: Françoise Robin - Self-Representation and Stories Told: the Life and Vicissitudes of Khandro Choechen (356 kb, pp. 171-188)
author: Nicola Schneider - Becoming a Female Ritual Healer in Eastern Bhutan (336 kb, pp. 189-213)
author: Mona Schrempf - Notes on Contributors (82 kb, pp. 215-217)
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Number 31, Février 2015 - Papers for Elliot Sperling
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- Cover, contents (139 kb, pp. 1-4)
- Between History and Biography: Notes on Zhi byed ri pa's Illuminating Lamp of Sun and Moon Beams, a Fourteenth-Century Biographical State of the Field (397 kb, pp. 5-41)
author: Andrew Quintman - Marriage, Kinship, and Inheritance in Zhi byed ri pas Account of Mi la ras pa's Early Life (172 kb, pp. 43-49)
author: Geoff Childs and Andrew Quintman - Clapping hands in sKyid grong? Logical and contextual aspects of a famous debate narrative (1.6 MB, pp. 51-102)
author: Pascale Hugon - A note on the history and future of the 'Wylie' system (131 kb, pp. 103-105)
author: Nathan W. Hill - A propos du terme 'riz' et de l'hypothèse du groupe dialectal de Sems-kyi-nyila en tibétain du Khams (225 kb, pp. 107-115)
author: Hiroyuki Suzuki - 'Light' on the Human Body The Coarse Physical Body and its Functions in the Aural Transmission from Zhang zhung on the Six Lamps (836 kb, pp. 117-168)
author: Henk Blezer - The records of Tshul khrims mchog rgyal on the Black Phur pa cycle of the Tibetan Bon pos (430kb, pp. 169-202)
author: J.F. Marc des Jardins - Edition critique des instructions de Bru rGyal ba g.yung drung sur la pratique de la Claire-Lumière ('od gsal) selon le cycle du Phyag khrid du Zhang zhung snyan rgyud (606 kb, pp. 203-234)
author: Jean-Luc Achard
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- Cover, contents (170 kb, pp. 1-4)
- Singing the Nation: Modern Tibetan Music and National Identity (516 kb, pp. 1-29)
author: Lama Jabb - The Alternative to Development on the Tibetan Plateau: Preliminary Research on the Anti-Slaughter Movement (229 kb, pp. 31-43)
author: Gaerrang (Kabzung) - The Third Dragkar Lama: An Important Figure for Female Monasticism in the Beginning of Twentieth Century Kham (290 kb, pp. 45-60)
author: Nicola Schneider - Powerful Women in the History of Degé: Reassessing the Eventful Reign of the Dowager Queen Tsewang Lhamo (d. 1812) (369 kb, pp. 61-81)
author: Jann Ronis - Theorising the King: Implicit and Explicit Sources for the Study of Tibetan Sacred Kingship (377 kb, pp. 83-103)
author: Brandon Dotson - The Early History of Mgar: When History Becomes Legend (324 kb, pp. 105-121)
author: Thomas Kerihuel - Trinkets, Temples, and Treasures: Tibetan Material Culture and the 1904 British Mission to Tibet (631 kb, pp. 123-153)
author: Tim Myatt - The Careers of the Noble Officials of the Ganden Phodrang (1895-1959): Organisation and Hereditary Divisions within the Service of State (406 kb, pp. 155-174)
author: Alice Travers - Bod kyi srol rgyun srid khrims gyi ngo bo dang da snga'i gnas stangs la dpyad nas spyi tshogs bde 'jags la phan nges pa'i don tshan 'ga' la rags tsam gleng ba (561 kb, pp. 175-218)
author: Sonam Tsering - Gzhung sa dga' ldan pho brang gi sa gnas srid 'dzin byang spyi dang byang phyi sde khag gi lo rgyus yig tsahgs la dpyad pa (446 kb, pp. 219-241)
author: Dobis Tsering Gyal - Sommaire des précédents numéros (274 kb, pp. 243-252)
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
