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 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
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- Cover, contents (116 kb)
- Kamalaśīla’s Word Commentary to the Heart Sūtra, Translation and Edition (723 kb, pp. 5-82)
author: James B. Apple - Stairway from Heaven: Account of the Intermediate State (bar do’i rnam thar) of the Fourth Karma pa, Rol pa’i rdo rje (1340–1383) (300 kb, pp. 83-100)
author: Dominik Dell - A lag sha Ngag dbang bstan dar (1759-after August 1, 1840) on some Chinese Lexemes and the Chinese Language, Part Two (477 kb, pp. 101-137)
author: Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp - Our Tents Sometimes Vibrated with Roaring Laughter”: The Ernst Schaefer Tibet Expedition 1938-1939 (344 kb, pp. 138-179)
author: Roger Croston - Compte-rendu de : Michael Farmer, An Atlas of the Tibetan Plateau (89 kb, pp. 180-182)
author: Cathy Cantwell - Compte-rendu de Per Kværne and Dan Martin, Drenpa’s Proclamation, The Rise and Decline of the Bön Religion in Tibet (186 kb, pp. 183-190)
author: Dylan Esler - Compte-rendu de Christoph Cüppers, Karl-Heinz Everding, and Peter Schwieger, eds., A Life in Tibetan Studies: Festschrift for Dieter Schuh at the Occasion of his 80th Birthday (158 kb, pp. 191-196)
author: Per Kværne - Compte-rendu de Travers, Alice, Peter Schwieger and Charles Ramble, eds., Taxation in Tibetan Societies: Rules, Practices and Discourses (170 kb, pp. 197-202)
author: Per Kværne
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
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- Cover, contents (150 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Introduction — Northern Treasures: Lives and Deities — Fort a Critical History of the Northern Treasures II (182 kb, pp. 5-13)
author: Stéphane Arguillère, Cécile Ducher, Jean-Luc Achard - A Brief Note on the Northern Treasures of the Bon Tradition (346 kb, pp. 16-35)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - Feats of an eclectic Bon po master: dByil ston Khyung rgod rtsal’s ‘das log journey and gter ma rediscoveries (357 kb, pp. 36-68)
author: Roberto Vitali - A King of Dharma Forgotten on the Jewel Island: Was Me ban Chos rgyal Rin chen gling pa Rig ’dzin rGod ldem’s rDzogs chen Master? (How Half of the mKha’ ’gro snying thig Got Included in the dGongs pa zang thal) (795 kb, pp. 69-147)
author: Stéphane Arguillère - A Preliminary Analysis of the Prophetic Guides and Concealment Narratives of the Northern Treasure Tradition (246 kb, pp. 148-162)
author: Jay Holt Valentine - The significance of the Byang gter in the Life and Legacy of Thang stong rgyal po (549 kb, pp. 163-191)
author: Cécile Ducher - From Rāhula with Love: The Gruesome Liberation of Zhing shag pa Tshe brtan rdo rje as Told by his Compassionate Executioner (270 kb, pp. 192-205)
author: Simon Martin - Reflection on the Dzungar Persecution of the rNying ma School of Tibetan Buddhism in the 18th Century, Focusing on Its Causes and the Scale of the Destruction (417 kb, pp. 206-248)
author: Tenpa Tsering Batsang - Biography and Historiography: The Fifth rDo rje brag Rig ’dzin sKal bzang Padma dbang phyug (1720–1771) and His Travels (443 kb, pp. 249-278)
author: Franz-Karl Ehrhard - ’Khor gdong Monastery ’ja’ lus pa Lama sGrib bral (1946-2018) (673 kb, pp. 279-293)
author: Varvara Chatzisavva - Yamāntaka Among the Ancients: Mañjuśrī Master of Life in Context (909 kb, pp. 294-380)
author: Stéphane Arguillère - Favorable Ferocity: The Byang gter Rites that Invoke the Wrathful Deity Khro chu dug sdong (470 kb, pp. 381-404)
author: Amanda Brown - Divine Visions at the Last Breaths: A Creative Teaching on Dying in Rig ’dzin rGod ldem’s Great Perfection Anthology (251 kb, pp. 405-425)
author: Katarina Turpeinen - Section X2 of the Phyi nang gsang ba'i tshe sgrub: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the bsKul zhing gsol 'debs (505 kb, pp. 426-453)
author: Kanako Shinga - gNyan chen Thang lha and his Three Vows in Byang gter (372 kb, pp. 454-490)
author: Yuewei Wang - The Great Yakṣa of bSam yas: Ngag gi dbang po and the Tsi’u dmar po Oracle (335 kb, pp. 491-522)
author: Christopher Bell
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- Cover, contents (186 kb, pp. i-iv)
- The Zurkhang (zur khang; Adjunct House) in 1950s Kyidron (884 kb, pp. 5-25)
author: Geoff Childs - The Transmission Lineages of the Raktayamāri Tantric Cycles in the Sa skya Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism: The Gshin rje chos ’byung of A mes zhabs Ngag dbang kun dga’ bsod nams (1597–1659) (475 kb, pp. 26-69)
author: Aleksandra Wenta - The salt trips in Tibet and the Himalayas: extraction and trade in pre-modern times (329 kb, pp. 70-103)
author: Santiago Lazcano - The Place of Dan ’bag pa sMra ba’i seng ge in the Tibetan Epistemological Tradition (280 kb, pp. 104-126)
author: Jonathan Stoltz - Against Pilgrimage: Materiality, Place, and Ambivalence in Tibetan Pilgrimage Literature (428 kb, pp. 127-158)
author: Catherine Hartmann - Empty Iridescent Spheres. Notes on the Metaphysics of Light in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Tantric Sources (375 kb, pp. 159-186)
author: Giacomella Orofino - Compte-rendu de Cuevas, J. Bryan. The Rwa Pod and Other ‘Lost’ Works of Rwa Lo tsā ba’s Vajrabhairava Tradition (183 kb, pp. 187-193)
author: Aleksandra Wenta - Compte-rendu de Hartmut Walravens, Agnes Stache-Weiske. Der Linguist Anton Schiefner (1817–1879) und sein Netzwerk (169 kb, pp. 194-199)
author: Alexander Zorin - Compte-rendu de Karine Gagné. Caring for Glaciers, Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas (104 kb, pp. 200-202)
author: Patrick Kaplanian - Compte-rendu de Christian Jahoda et Christiane Kalantari. Early West Tibetan Buddhist Monuments. Architecture, Art, History and Texts (135 kb, pp. 203-206)
author: Patrick Kaplanian
Number 64, Juillet 2022 - From Khyung lung to Lhasa, A Festschrift for Dan Martin
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- Cover, contents (128 kb, pp. 1-4)
- A Bout with Smallpox in Beijing: Personal Accounts of the Tibetan Statesman — Dga' bzhi pa Bsod nams bstan 'dzin dpal 'byor (1761–after 1810) and his Struggle with Smallpox (554 kb, pp. 5-48)
author: Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp & Ning Tien - A Brief History of the Tibetan Alphabetical Order (251 kb, pp. 49-61)
author: Elie Roux - Parody and Pathos: Sexual Transgression by “Fake” Lamas in Tibetan Short Stories (422 kb, pp. 62-94)
author: Holly Gayley and Somtso Bhum - Early Developments in Snying thig Practice: The Eighth Topic of Zhang Nyi ma ‘bum’s Rdzogs pa chen po tshig don bcu gcig pa (384 kb, pp. 95-130)
author: Khenpo Yeshi & Jacob P. Dalton - The Second dPa’ bo, gTsug lag phreng ba (1504–1566): Life and Works of the Great Sixteenth-Century Historian (465 kb, pp. 131-175)
author: Maria Bjerregaard & Dominik Dell - The Buddhist Practice of Mindfulness and its Adoption in Non-Religious Settings (348 kb, pp. 176-192)
author: Martina Draszczyk - Enduring Impermanence: Buddhism and Documentation in the Time Practices of Tibetan Migrants (220 kb, pp. 193-213)
author: Thomas van der Molen - Tombs of the Tibetan Emperors: Divine Descent and Mortal Remains in the Chongye Valley (2.8 MB, pp. 214-251)
author: William F. Romain - The Tsadra Lotsawa Workbench: Collaborative Lexicographical Tools for the Translation of Tibetan Buddhist Texts (1.8 MB, pp. 252-288)
author: Gregory Forgues - The Translation Endeavours of Shes rab grags Revisited: An Investigation of Translations Done by Pu rang lo chung Shes rab grags and ’Bro lo tsā ba Shes rab grags (5.3 MB, pp. 289-400)
author: Orna Almogi
Number 62, Février 2022 - For A Critical History of the Northern Treasures
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- Cover, contents (192 kb, pp. 1-4)
- Introduction — For A Critical History of the Northern Treasures (261 kb, pp. 5-21)
author: Stéphane Arguillère - Introduction to the Contents of this Special Issue (164 kb, pp. 22-28)
author: Jay Valentine - The rDo rje in the Details: A Note on sNa nam rDo rje bdud ‘joms (fl. eighth century) and His Role in Bringing Padmasambhava to Tibet (307 kb, pp. 29-50)
author: Elizabeth Angowski - The Longevity Practice of Vajrakīla Revealed by Rig 'dzin rGod ldem can: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the rDo rje phur pa'i tshe bsgrub (588 kb, pp. 51-90)
author: Kanako Shinga - The Life and Identity of mNga' ris Paṇ chen Padma dbang rgyal (1487-1542) – the Outstanding Master from Mustang, the “Ordinary Bodily Being” (1.3 MB, pp. 91-131)
author: Alexandra Sukhanova - The Heart Drops of Samantabhadra (Kun bzang snying tig) as revealed by mNga’ris paṇ chen (Padma dbang rgyal, 1487–1542) (387 kb, pp. 132-163)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - Tsi’u dmar po: How a Northern Treasure God Became Ecumenical (548 kb, pp. 164-189)
author: Christopher Bell - Yamāntaka’s Wrathful Magic: An Instance of the Ritual Legacy of gNubs chen Sangs rgyas ye shes on the Byang gter Tradition via the Figure of rGya Zhang khrom (317 kb, pp. 190-215)
author: Dylan Esler - An Introduction to The Chariot of Marvels: Northern Treasure Master Padma 'phrin las's Memoir of a Journey to Byang Ngam ring in 1690 (330 kb, pp. 216-232)
author: Jay Valentine - A History of the dGongs pa zang thal practice manuals (657 kb, pp. 233-298)
author: Stéphane Arguillère - Byang gter Bibliography (151 kb, pp. 299-305)
author: Jay Valentine & Stéphane Arguillère
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- Cover, contents (140 kb, pp. 1-4)
- Introduction (193 kb, pp. 5-19)
author: Lucia Galli and Kalsang Norbu Gurung - Lenders and Borrowers in Tibetan Society (214 kb, pp. 20-32)
author: Peter Schwieger - Debt, Dependency and the Moravian Mission in Kinnaur, 1865–1924 (615 kb, pp. 33-65)
author: John Bray - Latent Modernisation in Traditional Tibet: An Essay on the Evolution of Land Lease Systems in Tibetan Rural Society (228 kb, pp. 66-83)
author: Kensaku Okawa - Timepieces as Gifts: Exploring European Clocks and Watches in Tibet (310 kb, pp. 84-97)
author: Lobsang Yongdan - Economic Resources to Stabilise Power in Ladakh During the rNam rgyal Dynasty (16th‒19th Centuries) (1.4 MB, pp. 98-129)
author: Teresa Raffelsberger - Building Trust Within and Without. The Role of Costly Signalling, Ethnic Kinship, and Non-Sectarianism in the Socio-Economic Affirmation of 20th-century Khams pa Trading Firms (372 kb, pp. 130-161)
author: Lucia Galli - From Sacred Commodity to Religio-Economic Conundrum: Tracing the Tibetan Term dKor (423 kb, pp. 162-192)
author: Berthe Jansen - Measuring Income Inequality in Tibetan Society: Understanding the Different Amounts of Offerings and the Status of Tibetan Officials (322 kb, pp. 193-215)
author: Kalsang Norbu Gurung - Rule and Labour in Tibet: Constructing the Red Palace of the Potala (1.3 MB, pp. 216-240)
author: Peter Schwieger - Crime, Punishment and Socio-Economic Status in Mustang (Nepal) in the Early 19th Century (256 kb, pp. 241-257)
author: Charles Ramble
Number 55, Juillet 2020 - New Currents on the Neva River
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- Cover, contents (278 kb, pp. i-v)
- Editorial (120 kb, pp. vi-x)
author: Natalia Moskaleva, Franz Xaver Erhard, Daniel Wojahn, Jed Forman, and Maria Smirnova - Keynote: Tibetan Studies in Saint Petersburg: Past and Present (201 kb, pp. 1–14)
author: Vladimir Uspensky - Sounds of Speech and the Tiger’s Roar: Two Different Ways of Perceiving Vocal Music in Tibet in the 13th–17th Centuries (549 kb, pp. 15–34)
author: Polina Butsyk - Tantric Constraints in the Tibetan Medical Tradition: Theocratic Dynamics in Medical Practice (263 kb, pp. 35–53)
author: Tony Chui - Releasing Lives on the Grasslands of Amdo: Entanglements of Human and Animal Vitality (294 kb, pp. 54–78)
author: Maria Coma-Santasusana - A Yak, Na rak and Potalaka: Folios of the So-Called “Gyalpo Kachem” in US Museum Collections (509 kb, pp. 79–120)
author: Lewis Doney - Goldmine of Knowledge: The Collections of the Gnas bcu lha khang in ’Bras spungs Library (255 kb, pp. 121–139)
author: Cécile Ducher - Re-adapting a Buddhist Mother’s Authority in the Gung ru Female Sprul sku Lineage (401 kb, pp. 140–160)
author: Peter F. Faggen - “The Problem of Universals in Yogic Perception and Tsong kha pa’s Solution (347 kb, pp. 161–181)
author: Jed Forman - Resurrecting an Old Advice: Funerary Teachings in the Bka’ brgyad Cycle of Nyang ral nyi ma ’od zer (1124–1192) (259 kb, pp. 182–196)
author: Guy Grizman - Buddhist Tradition, Catalogued: Kingship and Nonsectarian Traces in an Early 18th-Century Dkar chag from Sde dge (335 kb, pp. 197–220)
author: Eric Haynie - The Origins of Tibetan Law: Some Notes on Intertextuality and the Reception History of Tibetan Legal Texts (322 kb, pp. 221–244)
author: Berthe Jansen - Reincarnation at Work: A Case Study of the Incarnation Lineage of Sum pa mkhan po (337 kb, pp. 245–268)
author: Hanung Kim - Treatise on Writing, Treatise on Music: Comparing Terminology (330 kb, pp. 269–291)
author: Anna Kramskova - Questioning Women: Ye shes mtsho rgyal and Other Female Disciples in Zhus lan Literature (340 kb, pp. 292–317)
author: Jue Liang - Prophecies and Past Lives of the Sde srid Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho: On Interpretation and Authority in a Tibetan ’Khrungs rabs (882 kb, pp. 318–350)
author: Ian MacCormack - The Ming, Tibetan and Mongol Interactions in Shaping the Ming Fortification, Multicultural Society and Natural Landscape in Mdo smad, 1368–1644 (670 kb, pp. 351–384)
author: Gyatso Marnyi - The Monstrous and the Moral: Interpreting King Yama’s Narratological Arc in Returner Literature (271 kb, pp. 385–408)
author: Natasha L. Mikles - The Tibet Mirror and History Spinning in the 1950s and 1960s (347 kb, pp. 409–439)
author: Natalia Moskaleva - Shugs ldan and the Dalai Lama: A Conflict of Political Legitimation Processes? (340 kb, pp. 440–461)
author: Frédéric Richard - Tibetan Manuscript on Birchbark from the Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS (1 MB, pp. 462–474)
author: Alla Sizova - Study of the Tibetan Linguistic Picture of the World Using Computer Ontology (326 kb, pp. 475–494)
author: Maria Smirnova - Curating a Treasure: The Bka’ brgyad bde gshegs ’dus pa in the Development of Rnying ma Tradition (305 kb, pp. 495-521)
author: Nicholas Trautz - Teaching the Living through the Tibetan Book of the Dead: Exploration into the Context and Content of an 18th-century Mongolian Block Print (392 kb, pp. 522-553)
author: Daniel Wojahn
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- Cover, contents (89 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Acknowledgements (60 kb, p. 5)
author: - Notes on Transcription and Transliteration of Terms in Asian Languages (52 kb, p. 6)
author: - Introduction: The Ganden Phodrang’s Military Institutions and Culture between the 17th and the 20th Centuries, at a Crossroads of Influences (1.1 MB, pp. 7-28)
author: Solomon George FitzHerbert and Alice Travers - Mongol and Tibetan Armies on the Trans-Himalayan Fronts in the Second Half of the 17th Century, with a Focus on the Autobiography of the Fifth Dalai Lama (484 kb, pp. 29-55)
author: Federica Venturi - The Zunghar Conquest of Central Tibet and its Influence on Tibetan Military Institutions in the 18th Century (491 kb, pp. 56-113)
author: Hosung Shim - Tibetan and Qing Troops in the Gorkha Wars (1788–1792) as Presented in Chinese Sources: A Paradigm Shift in Military Culture (695 kb, pp. 114-146)
author: Ulrich Theobald - Meritocracy in the Tibetan Army after the 1793 Manchu Reforms: The Career of General Zurkhang Sichö Tseten (481 kb, pp. 147-177)
author: Alice Travers - The Geluk Gesar: Guandi, the Chinese God of War, in Tibetan Buddhism from the 18th to 20th Centuries (1.5 MB, pp. 178-266)
author: Solomon George FitzHerbert - A Visual Representation of the Qing Political and Military Presence in Mid-19th Century Tibet (1.7 MB, pp. 267-302)
author: Diana Lange - Zhang Yintang’s Military Reforms in 1906–1907 and their aftermath—The Introduction of Militarism in Tibet (660 kb, pp. 303-340)
author: Ryosuke Kobayashi - Japanese Visitors to Tibet in the Early 20th Century and their Impact on Tibetan Military Affairs—with a Focus on Yasujirō Yajima (582 kb, pp. 341-364)
author: Yasuko Komoto - List of Authors (104 kb, pp. 365-367)
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Number 51, Juillet 2019 - Perspectives on Tibetan Culture
Number 50, Juin 2019 - Tibetan Religion and the Senses
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- 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
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- Cover, contents (177 kb, pp. i-iv)
- The Graves of the Chief Ministers of the Tibetan Empire — Mapping Chapter Two of the Old Tibetan Chronicle in the Light of the Evidence of the Tibetan Tumulus Tradition (7.2 MB, pp. 5-159)
author: Guntram Hazod
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- Cover, contents (138 kb, pp. i-iv)
- A Late Proponent of the Jo nang gZhan stong Doctrine: Ngag dbang tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho (1 MB, pp. 5-50)
author: Filippo Brambilla - Ratsag Monastery and its Vajrayoginī Nāro Khecarī Statue (1.9 MB, pp. 51-68)
author: Joona Repo - A study of written and oral narratives of Lhagang in Eastern Tibet (289 kb, pp. 69-88)
author: Sonam Wangmo - The Red Buddha Hall Road Revisited: New Information about the Tibetan and Tang Empires in Afghanistan Wakhan (2.2 MB, pp. 89-109)
author: John Mock - The Transformation of the Qing’s Geopolitics: Power Transitions between Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in Amdo (2.7 MB, pp. 110-144)
author: Ling-Wei Kung - Direct Introductions into the Three Embodiments, Supreme Key-Instructions of the Dwags po Bka’ brgyud Tradition (458 kb, pp. 145-177)
author: Martina Draszczyk - The Signature of Recipes: Authorship, Intertextuality, and the Epistemic Genre of Tibetan Formulas (670 kb, pp. 178-220)
author: Barbara Gerke - Compte-rendu de Matthew Akester: Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo’s Guide to Central Tibet (162 kb, pp. 221-228)
author: Guntram Hazod - Compte-rendu de Daniel A. Hirshberg: Remembering the Lotus-Born. Padmasambhava in the History of Tibet’s Golden Age (118 kb, pp. 229-232)
author: Manuel Lopez - Compte-rendu de Anne Burchardi: Catalogue of Tibetan Mandalas and Other Images (176 kb, pp. 233-236)
author: Amy Heller
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)
- Préface (109 kb, pp. 5-8)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - Adaptations and Transformations of Indian Yogācāra in Tibetan rDzogs chen (324 kb, pp. 9-31)
author: Sam van Schaik - Reconsidering the Contents and Function of the rDzogs chen Classifications of Sems phyogs and Sems sde (273 kb, pp. 32-49)
author: Morten Ostensen - The “Twenty or Eighteen” Texts of the Mind Series: Scripture, Transmission, and the Idea of Canon in the Early Great Perfection Literature (635 kb, pp. 50-94)
author: Manuel Lopez - The Great Perfection in the Early Biographies of the Northern Treasure Tradition: An Introduction to and Translation of The Life of Nam mkha’ rgyal mtshan (493 kb, pp. 95-133)
author: Jay Holt Valentine - Tales of Realization – Narratives in Rig ‘dzin rGod ldem’s Great Perfection Revelation (657 kb, pp. 134-195)
author: Katarina Turpeinen - Histoire des manuels de pratique du dGongs pa zang thal (546 kb, pp. 196-255)
author: Stéphane Arguillère - Signification and History in Zhang Nyi ma ’bum’s rDzogs pa chen po tshig don bcu gcig pa (287 kb, pp. 256-273)
author: Khenpo Yeshi and Jacob P. Dalton
Number 40, Juillet 2017 - Studies in The Tibetan Performing Arts
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- Cover, contents (124 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Studying the Tibetan Performing Arts: A Bibliographic Introduction (1986-2017) (444 kb, pp. 5–54)
author: Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy - Regulating the Performing Arts: Buddhist Canon Law on the Performance and Consumption of Music in Tibet (363 kb, pp. 55-91)
author: Cuilan Liu - Listening with the Gods: Offering, Beauty and Being in Tibetan Ritual Music (155 kb, pp. 92-102)
author: Michael Monhart - Looking Back at Tibetan Performing Arts Research by Tibetans in the People’s Republic of China: Advocating for an Anthropological Approach (315 kb, pp. 103-125)
author: Sangye Dondhup - Lyrics Matter: Reconsidering Agency in the Discourses and Practices of Tibetan Pop Music among Tibetan Refugees (324 kb, pp. 126-152)
author: Tatsuya Yamamoto - Lineage in the Digital Age: Didactic Practices of the Nepal Tibetan Lhamo Association and Tibet University Arts Department Tibetan Opera Class (834 kb, pp. 153-178)
author: Kati Fitzgerald - The Art of the Tibetan Actor: A lce lha mo in the gaze of Western Performance Theories (1.2 MB, pp. 179-215)
author: Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy - Notes on Contributors (94 kb, pp. 216-217)
Number 38, Février 2017 - The Tulku (sprul sku) Institution in Tibetan Buddhism
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- Cover, contents (167 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Drakngak Lingpa’s Pilgrimage Guides and the Progressive Opening of the Hidden Land of Pemakö (1.1 MB, pp. 5-52)
author: Elizabeth McDougal - Zamthang, epicentre of Zanskar’s rock art heritage (2 MB, pp. 53-105)
author: Martin Vernier - Tibetological Material in the Journal of the West China Border Research Society (123 kb, pp. 107-114)
author: Alex McKay - Side, stench, remnant, plot, oath, and craftiness — the semantic ‘capacity’ of the OT dku (532 kb, pp. 115-167)
author: Joanna Bialek - On some rDzogs chen aspects in a gCod Text from the Bla ma dgongs ’dus, a gTer ma collection discovered by Sangs rgyas gling pa (1341-1396) (336 kb, pp. 169-202)
author: Fabian Sanders & Margherita Pansa - The Lives of Bu ston Rin chen grub and the Date and Sources of His Chos 'byung, a Chronicle of Buddhism in India and Tibet (881 kb, pp. 203-308)
author: Leonard van der Kuijp - A Tibetan Grammatical Construction: verb + na go (369 kb, pp. 309-334)
author: Jonathan Silk
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- Cover, contents (147 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Contribution, Attribution, and Selective Lineal Amnesia in the Case of Mahāyogin dPal dbyangs (764 kb, pp. 1-23)
author: Kammie Takahashi - Reanimating the Great Yogin: On the Composition of the Biographies of the Madman of Tsang (1452-1507) (490 kb, pp. 25-49)
author: David M. DiValerio - The contribution of corpus linguistics to lexicography and the future of Tibetan dictionaries (6.6 MB, pp. 51–86)
author: Edward Garrett, Nathan W. Hill, Adam Kilgarriff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi, Abel Zadoks - Opening the Eyes of Faith: Constructing Tradition in a Sixteenth- Century Catalogue of Tibetan Religious Poetry (5.7 MB, pp. 87-151)
author: Stefan Larsson and Andrew Quintman - Quelques remarques linguistiques sur le tibétain de Lhagang, « l’endroit préféré par le Bodhisattva » (958 kb, pp. 153-175)
author: Hiroyuki SUZUKI and Sonam Wangmo - Book review of Zangdok Palri: The Lotus Light Palace of Guru Rinpoche: Visions of the Buddhist Paradise in the Sacred Kingdom of Bhutan (243 kb, pp. 177–183)
author: Rob Mayer - Book review of L'épopée tibétaine de Gesar. Manuscrit bon-po Fonds A. David-Néel du musée national des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet (136 kb, pp. 185–188)
author: Per Kværne
Number 31, Février 2015 - Papers for Elliot Sperling
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- Cover, contents (145 kb, pp. i-x)
- A Tibetan Toponym from Afghanistan (294 kb, pp. 5-9)
author: John Mock - Darkot Revisited: New Information on a Tibetan Inscription and mchod-rten (641 kb, pp. 11-19)
author: John Mock - The Trapchi Lhamo Cult in Lhasa (335 kb, pp. 21-54)
author: Daisuke Murakami - Mchog gyur gling pa’s Visionary Journey to the Copper-Colored Mountain (236 kb, pp. 55-79)
author: Benjamin Bogin - The Forgotten Citadel of Stok mon mkhar (886 kb, pp. 81-102)
author: Martin Vernier - Le Tantra du Précieux Amoncellement exprimant la Quintessence des Trésors — analyse thématique & édition critique (376 kb, pp. 103-125)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - Book review of A Noble Noose of Methods, The Lotus Garland Synopsis: A Mahâyoga Tantra and its Commentary (107 kb, pp. 127-129)
author: Per Kvaerne - Book review of The Black Hat Eccentric: Artistic Visions of the Tenth Karmapa (182 kb, pp. 131-137)
author: Matthew Kapstein
- Full text (7.8 MB)
- Cover, contents (473 kb, pp. i-x)
- Self-Immolation in Tibet: Some Reflections on an Unfolding History (1.9 MB, pp. 1-17)
author: Katia Buffetrille - Self Immolation, the Changing Language of Protest in Tibet (539 kb, pp. 19-40)
author: Tsering Shakya - Political Self-Immolation in Tibet: Causes and Influences (513 kb, pp. 41-64)
author: Robert Barnett - Kīrti Monastery of Ngawa: Its History and Recent Situation (819 kb, pp. 65-80)
author: Daniel Berounský - Chinese Policy Towards Tibet versus Tibetan Expectations for Tibet: A Divergence Marked by Self-Immolations (1.2 MB, pp. 81-87)
author: Fabienne Jagou - Conversations and Debates: Chinese and Tibetan Engagement with the Broader Discussion of Self-Immolation in Tibet (482 kb, pp. 89-97)
author: Elliot Sperling - Online Articles on Self-immolation by Tibetans in Exile — A Brief Survey (182 kb, pp. 99-104)
author: Chung Tsering - bTsan byol bod mi'i drwa thog bod yig dpyad rtsom nas rang lus mer bsregs la blta ba (1.9 MB, pp. 105-112)
author: Chung Tshe ring - The Flames of Poetry Spreading From the Fire of Heroes (1.9 MB, pp. 113-122)
author: Noyontsang Lhamokyab - Fire, Flames and Ashes. How Tibetan Poets Talk about Self-Immolations without Talking about Them (344 kb, pp. 123-131)
author: Françoise Robin - Fire and Death in Western Imagination (228 kb, pp. 133-141)
author: Michel Vovelle - Self-Immolation in Context, 1963-2012 (781 kb, pp. 143-150)
author: Michael Biggs - Immolation in a Global Muslim Society Revolt against Authority — Transgression of Strict Religious Laws (248 kb, pp. 151-157)
author: Dominique Avon - Self-Immolations by Kurdish Activists in Turkey and Europe (254 kb, pp. 159-168)
author: Olivier Grojean - The Arab Revolutions and Self-Immolation (252 kb, pp. 169-179)
author: Farhad Khosrokhavar - Self-Immolation by Fire versus Legitimate Violence in the Hindu Context (245 kb, pp. 181-189)
author: Marie Lecomte-Tilouine - Immolations in Japan (322 kb, pp. 191-201)
author: François Macé - Multiple Meanings of Buddhist Self-Immolation in China — A Historical Perspective (237 kb, pp. 203-212)
author: James A. Benn
- Full text (2.2 MB)
- Cover, contents (139 kb, pp. 1-4)
- Liu Manqing: A Sino-Tibetan Adventurer and the Origin of a
New Sino-Tibetan Dialogue in the 1930s (372 kb, pp. 5-20)
author: Fabienne Jagou - A Preliminary Report on Investigations into (Bon nyid) 'Od gsal and
Zhi khro bar do in Earlier Zhang zhung sNyan rgyud and sNyan rgyud
Literature (618 kb, pp. 21-50)
author: Henk Blezer - On the history and identification of two of the Thirteen Later
Translations of the Dzogchen Mind Series (286 kb, pp. 51-62)
author: Karen Liljenberg - A Handlist of the Bonpo Kangyur and Tengyur (590 kb, pp. 63-128)
author: Kurt Keutzer & Kevin 0'Neill - Sommaire des anciens numéros (198 kb, pp. 129-135)
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