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 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
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- Cover, contents (201 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Preface (171 kb, pp. v-xii)
author: Jonathan Silk & Leonard van der Kuijp - Erroneous Conceptions Frequently Shared about New Bon (Bon gsar) (261 kb, pp. 1-17)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - Antecedents of Bon, On rMa Folks and the Origins of gShen Ritual Specialists (298 kb, pp. 18-44)
author: Henk Blezer - A Short Text on the Four Phurpas attributed to Padmasambhava, passed down through the Transmitted Teachings (bka’ ma) (259 kb, pp. 45-56)
author: Cathy Cantwell - The Treasure Discoverer from Dwags-po: Two Texts on the Life of Chos-rje gling-pa (1682–1720) (330 kb, pp. 57-83)
author: Franz-Karl Ehrhard - Why Did the Cannibal King Fly? Tantric Transformations of an Indian Narrative in Tibet (522 kb, pp. 84-135)
author: James Gentry - The lion of Gung thang, A historical-ethnographic note on Tshal Gung thang (1.4 MB, pp. 136-160)
author: Guntram Hazod - An Early Maṇḍala of Cakrasaṃvara (675 kb, pp. 161-170)
author: Amy Heller - The Politico-Religious Meanings of the Potala Palace’s White and Red Palaces (388 kb, pp. 171-193)
author: Ishihama Yumiko - The Elusive American Tibetologist in Gendun Chöphel’s Life: “The First White Lama” (Theos Bernard) and Their Dream of Tibetland, California (4 MB, pp. 194-264)
author: David Jackson - Tibetan Legal Geography: Situating Legal Texts, Situating Sacred Tibet (331 kb, pp. 265-289)
author: Berthe Jansen - From Metaphor to Commentary and from Commentary to Catechism: The Formation of a Bon po Scriptural Corpus and Its Authentication (294 kb, pp. 290-306)
author: Matthew T. Kapstein - Studies in Btsun pa Ston gzhon’s Pramāṇavārttika Commentary of 1297 Part Two(a): ‘U yug pa Rigs pa’i seng ge (ca. 1195–after 1267) (394 kb, pp. 307-343)
author: Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp - C.A. Holmboe (1796-1882): The First Norwegian Scholar of Buddhism (179 kb, pp. 344-351)
author: Per Kværne - The Transmission of Information and Knowledge in the Early Qing Dynasty and the Activation of the Tibet-Khams Channel (877 kb, pp. 352-367)
author: Li Zhiying - Indian nidhi, Tibetan gter ma, Guru Chos dbang, and a Kriyātantra on Treasure Doors: Rethinking Treasure (part two) (860 kb, pp. 368-446)
author: Robert Mayer - The Long Arm of an Eighteenth-Century Bonpo Patron: Gyalrong and Dolpo between the Jinchuan Wars (290 kb, pp. 447-460)
author: Charles Ramble - What did the Chinese Warlord Liu Wenhui want from Pha bong kha (309 kb, pp. 461-478)
author: Peter Schwieger - The History of the Mountain Teachings: 13th century Practice Lineages at rTsib ri (538 kb, pp. 479-515)
author: Marta Sernesi - A Dunhuang Tibetan Poem Praising Amitābha and Its Rebirth Among the Gter ma (841 kb, pp. 516-613)
author: Jonathan A. Silk - The 1983 Copy of Kötenʼs 1244 Letter to Sa skya Paṇḍita (435 kb, pp. 614-628)
author: Sun Penghao & Chen Qingying - Images of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama in the Public Opinion of the Late Qing Period (393 kb, pp. 629-655)
author: Yudru Tsomu - Travel, Love and Lost Things: The earliest Sino-Tibetan Divination Manuscript (902 kb, pp. 656-679)
author: Sam Van Schaik - The Khyung po, Dor ta and Rtse drug: War and Peace in Steng chen during the pre-Yuan years (372 kb, pp. 680-707)
author: Roberto Vitali - A Stone Carved Old Tibetan Tshe dpag du myed pa’I mdo Found in Leb ‘khog of Yu shul, Qinghai Province (656 kb, pp. 708-735)
author: Zhang Changhong
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
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
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- On the Life of gNubs-chen Sangs-rgyas ye-shes (247 kb, pp. 5-27)
author: Dylan Esler - Sikkim and the Sino-Nepalese War of 1788-1792: A Communiqué from Băo tài to the Sikkimese Commander Yug Phyogs thub (669 kb, pp. 29-37)
author: Saul Mullard - A Tibetan Catalogue of the Works of ’Jigs-med gling-pa (330 kb, pp. 39-63)
author: Sam van Schaik - Khri ka'i jo jo lha khang gi byung ba dang gnas bab la rags tsam dpyad pa (509 kb, pp. 65-89)
author: 'Dzoms skyid sgrol ma - Some Tibetan verb forms that violate Dempsey's law (1.9 MB, pp. 91-101)
author: Nathan W. Hill - The Upper Temple of Dangkhar Monastery — Iconographical Capharnaüm or Political Manoeuvre? (1.6 MB, pp. 103-153)
author: Lobsang Nyima Laurent - Straddling the Millennial Divide — A case study of persistence and change in the Tibetan ritual tradition based on the Gnag rabs of Gathang Bumpa and Eternal Bon documents, circa 900–1100 CE (669 kb, pp. 155-243)
author: John Vincent Bellezza - Aspects of the Traditional Gambling known as Sho in Modern Lhasa, Tibet ― religious and gendered worldviews infusing the Tibetan dice game (419 kb, pp. 245-270)
author: Daisuke Murakami
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
