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
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- Cover, contents (154 kb)
- Foreword (148 kb, pp. 5-9)
author: Alexander Zorin & Charles Ramble - Documents from the National Library of France related to the first Tibetan manuscripts in Europe and early Russian-French academic relations (905 kb, pp. 13-32)
author: Alla Sizova, Emanuela Garatti, & Nathalie Monnet - Ten demystified folios from Ablai-kit (6.3 mb, pp. 33-92)
author: Alexander Zorin & Charles Ramble - The samples of folios from Sem Palat and Ablai-kit preserved at the Hunterian Library of the University of Glasgow (4.2 mb, pp. 93-189)
author: Alexander Zorin, Anna Turanskaya, & Agnieszka Helman-Ważny - Codex Renatus Lincopensis” and two other Tibetan and Mongolian folios preserved in the Linköping City Library (1.1 mb, pp. 190-217)
author: Alexander Zorin, Anna Turanskaya, & Vadim Borodaev - Review of the book: Dmitry Ivanov. Buddiiskie kollektsii Kunstkamery [Buddhist Collections of the Kunstkamera]. Saint Petersburg: Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, RAS, 2021 (390 kb, pp. 218-229)
author: Alexander Zorin - Official documents in Mongolian language relating to the Fifth Dalai Lama’s visit to Beijing in 1652–1653 (327 kb, pp. 233-254)
author: Vladimir Uspensky - Sumpa Khenpo Yeshe Peljor and his ‘History of Kokonor’ (260 kb, pp. 255-277)
author: Irina Garri, Yumzhana Zhabon, & Hortsang Jigme - Lamas and Oirat migrations: religion and the exodus of Kalmyks’ main part in 1771 (352 kb, pp. 278-314)
author: Baatr Kitinov - Letter of Ubashi Khan from Labrang Monastery in the light of Tibetan sources on the relationship of Kalmyks with spiritual hierarchs (967 kb, pp. 315-342)
author: Bembya Mitruev - A brief survey of the monuments of the Kalmyk spiritual culture in the Kyiv collections of Ukraine (4.5 mb, pp. 345-392)
author: Olena Ogneva
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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 (146 kb, pp. i-iv)
- ‘Dul ba dpe ris: Didactic art on temple architecture in the dGe lugs tradition (3 MB, pp. 5-44)
author: Shiriin Barakzai - The Tibetan-Italian-Tibetan Dictionary of Fr. Orazio della Penna (1680–1745): An Untapped Resource for the History of Tibetan Language, Society and Early Buddhist-Christian Interreligious Contacts (714 kb, pp. 45-68)
author: Federica Venturi - Changing Bodies Seven Times: Padampa Sangyé’s Pacifying Tradition and the Birth of the Maṇi Pill (1.1 MB, pp. 69-153)
author: James Gentry - The Hundred Jātakas (sKyes rab brgya pa) by Āryaśūra (c. 4th cent. CE) and the Third Karma pa, Rang ’byung rdo rje (1284–1339): Overview of the Xylograph Editions (615 kb, pp. 154-191)
author: Dominik Dell, Bruno Galasek-Hul, & Lajos Dömötör - Stepping-Stones magazine – from studies of Buddhism in the Eastern Himalayas to the perspectives of the philosophy of perennialism (215 kb, pp. 192-208)
author: Denis A. Korablin - Compte-rendu de : Franz Xaver Erhard and Thomas Wild, Drumze — Metamorphoses of the Tibetan Carpet (120 kb, pp. 209-212)
author: Amy Heller - Compte-rendu de : John Harrison, Mustang Building: Tibetan Temples and Vernacular Architecture in Nepal Himalaya (152 kb, pp. 213-217)
author: Mark Aldenderfer - Compte-rendu de : John Vincent Bellezza, Besting the Best: Warriors and Warfare in the Cultural and Religious Traditions of Tibet (168 kb, pp. 218-225)
author: Per Kværne
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
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
