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 80, Janvier 2026 — Northern Treasures Histories – volume I — Before Rigdzin Gödem
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
- Full text (2.4 MB)
- Cover, contents (88 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Introduction (143 kb, pp. 5-12)
author: James D. Gentry - The senses in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism from a philosophical perspective (230 kb, pp. 13–39)
author: Jiri Holba - A Bon tantric approach to the senses: the evidence from Khu tsha zla 'od’s Black Pillar (Ka ba nag po man ngag rtsa ba'i rgyud) (276 kb, pp. 40-55)
author: Robert Mayer - Embodying the divine in tantric ritual practice: examples from the Chinese Karakhoto manuscripts from the Tangut empire (ca. 1038–1227) (258 kb, pp. 56-72)
author: Carmen Meinert - Liberation through sensory encounters in Tibetan Buddhist practice (603 kb, pp. 73–131)
author: James D. Gentry - Luminous visions and liberatory amulets in Rig 'dzin rGod ldem’s Great Perfection anthology (205 kb, pp. 132–149)
author: Katarina Turpeinen - The Ceremony for Imbibing the Siddhis, with particular reference to examples from Nyang ral Nyi ma 'od zer’s bKa' brgyad bde gshegs 'dus pa (501 kb, pp. 150–165)
author: Cathy Cantwell - Unicorns, myrobalans, and eyes: senses in ritual structure and matter in g.Yung drung Bon, a Tibetan tantric tradition (353 kb, pp. 166–211)
author: Anna Sehnalova - Tears like fluttering leaves: karmic resentment and the senses in Gesar’s journey through hell (283 kb, pp. 212–234)
author: Natasha L. Mikles - Seeing through your eyes: senses, emotions, science, and the plasticity of personhood in Tibetan Buddhism (302 kb, pp. 235-256)
author: Ana Cristina O. Lopes
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
Number 31, Février 2015 - Papers for Elliot Sperling
- Full text (33.1 MB)
- Cover, contents (1.1 MB, pp. i-vi)
- Editorial (304 kb, pp. vii-ix)
author: Roberto Vitali - Elliot Sperling’s Bibliography (1.1 MB, pp. xi-xvi)
author: Roberto Vitali - The View of sPyi ti Yoga (792 kb, pp. 1-20)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - The First Mongol Contacts with the Tibetans (807 kb, pp. 21-45)
author: Christopher P. Atwood - Dalai Lama’s Representative Agvan Dorjiev and Altaist Professor Władysław Kotwicz: Letters of 1912 (6.5 MB, pp. 47-62)
author: Agata Bareja-Starzyńska - Interpreting the Body Maṇḍala: Tsongkhapa versus Later Gelug Scholars (500 kb, pp. 63-74)
author: Yael Bentor - A General Investigation into the Life of the Tshe smon gling Regent Ngag dbang ‘jam dpal tshul khrims (in Tibetan) (267 kb, pp. 75-93)
author: Be ri ’Jigs med dbang rgyal - Tibetan “Magical Rituals” (las sna tshogs) from the Power of Tsongkhapa (1.4 MB, pp. 95-111)
author: Daniel Berounsky - A Controversy on Vegetarianism (482 kb, pp. 113-127)
author: Katia Buffetrille - Imperial Interest Made Manifest: sGa A gnyan dam pa’s Mahākāla Protector Chapel of the Tre shod Maṇḍala Plain (10.8 MB, pp. 129-166)
author: Karl Debreczeny - Gter-ma as Imperial Treasure: The 1755 Beijing Edition of the Padma bka’ thang (4.6 MB, pp. 167-187)
author: Matthew T. Kapstein - Béla Széchenyi’s Amdo Tibetan “Root Words” and the Names of the Tibetan Letters (576 kb, pp. 189-198)
author: György Kara and Marta Kiripolská - On Social Death: The Spang mda’ tsang Family and 20th Century Tibetan History (445 kb, pp. 199-205)
author: Carole McGranahan - How to Address Kings: Buddhist Letters to Indian Rulers (490 kb, pp. 207-215)
author: Richard F. Nance - Understanding Sovereignty in Amdo (2 MB, pp. 217-232)
author: Paul K. Nietupski - The Lhasa Ripper, A Preliminary Investigation into the “Dark Underbelly” of Social Life in the Holy City (6.5 MB, pp. 233-250)
author: Jamyang Norbu - A Research on How the Poet Ksemendra Became a Religious King (in Tibetan) (395 kb, pp. 251-269)
author: dGe ‘dun rab gsal - Primeval Tibetan Medicine (in Tibetan) (283 kb, pp. 271-295)
author: Rag rdo Blo bzang bstan ‘dzin) - Letters to the Khans, Six Tibetan Epistles of Togdugpa Addressed to the Mongol Rulers Hulegu and Khubilai, as well as to the Tibetan Lama Pagpa (669 kb, pp. 297-331)
author: Jampa Samten and Dan Martin - A Document on the Policy on Foreigners in Tibet after the Anglo-Chinese Convention of 1906 (1.7 MB, pp. 333-343)
author: Peter Schwieger - Central Asian Muslims on Tibetan Buddhism, 16th-18th Centuries (488 kb, pp. 345-358)
author: Ron Sela - Ga rgya ‘gram nag: A Bandit or a Proto-Rebel? The Question of Banditry as Social Protest in Nag chu (441 kb, pp. 359-375)
author: Tsering Shakya - The Ro ‘gag lung gshong Battle (in Tibetan) (227 kb, pp. 377-383)
author: Chab mdo Shes rab - Origins of the Middle Way Policy (408 kb, pp. 385-399)
author: Warren Smith - The Function of Auxiliary Verbs in Tibetan Predicates and Their Historical Development (1.3 MB, pp. 401-415)
author: Tsuguhito Takeuchi - A Study on the Historiographical Material Concerning the Kings of sDe dge (in Tibetan) (642 kb, pp. 417-459)
author: Jo sras bKra shis tshe ring - Altan Qaγan (1507-1582) of the Tümed Mongols and the Stag lung Abbot Kun dga’ bkra shis rgyal mtshan (1575-1635) (930 kb, pp. 461-482)
author: Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp and Gray Tuttle - The Thirteenth Dalai Lama on Warfare, Weapons, and the Right to Self-Defense (550 kb, pp. 483-509)
author: Federica Venturi - The Book of Names of Nyang stod bla ma-s: Masters and Events of the Years 997-1354 (907 kb, pp. 511-576)
author: Roberto Vitali - Thu’u bkwan’s Literary Adaptations of the Life of Dgongs pa rab gsal (744 kb, pp. 577-591)
author: Nicole Willock - 记埃利亚特·史伯岭 (For Elliot Sperling) (in Chinese) (791 kb, pp. 593-596)
author: 唯色 (Woeser)
- Full text (2.8 MB)
- Cover, contents (153 kb, pp. i-x)
- The Rimé Activities of Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol (1781-1851) (273 kb, pp. 5-30)
author: Rachel H. Pang - Une pomme turke dans un jardin tibétain ? (210 kb, pp. 31-46)
author: Rémi Dor - The Eighteen Mahāyoga Tantric Cycles: A Real Canon or the Mere Notion of One? (545 kb, pp. 47-110)
author: Orna Almogi - Studies in Btsun pa Ston gzhon’s Pramāṇavārttika Commentary of ?1297 (681 kb, pp. 111-198)
author: Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp - The Uncommon History of Markha Chorten, Ladakh (1.4 MB, pp. 190-218)
author: Martin Vernier & Quentin Denvers - Book review of Art of Merit: Studies in Buddhist Art and its Conservation (120 kb, pp. 219-223)
author: Anne Chayet - Book review of Historical dictionary of Tibet (345 kb, pp. 225-246)
author: Bettina Zeisler
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
