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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. Anne Chayet and Pierre Arènes. All contributions are peer-reviewed and may be submitted to the editors in digital format at the following email address: jeanluc.achard@sfr.fr. To date, twenty-six volumes are available as a free PDF downloads. You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to view and print the files. Please send us a short email to say whether this service is of interest and utility to you. Click here to read an introduction to the journal in French.

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Number 26, Avril 2013

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The Fifteen Great Demons of Children (296 kb, pp. 5-33)
author: Lin Shen-Yu
The Scrupulous Use of Gifts for the Saṅgha: Self-Ennoblement Through the Ledger in Tibetan Autobiography (238 kb, pp. 35-55)
author: Benjamin Wood
Constructing Images of Gönpo Namgyel: a Hero or a Villain ? (382 kb, pp. 57-91)
author: Yudru Tsomu
Physical, Cultural and Religious Space in A myes Bar dbon. Written and Oral Traditions of a gnas ri in Amdo (501 kb, pp. 93-114)
author: Valentina Punzi
Some Remarks on the Textual Transmission and Text of Bu ston Rin chen grub's Chos 'byung, a Chronicle of Buddhism in India and Tibet (647 kb, pp. 115-193)
author: Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp
lHa bla ma Zhi ba ’od’s Eighth Century Bronze from Gilgit (415 kb MB, pp. 195-214)
author: Lobsang Nyima Laurent

Number 25, Décembre 2012

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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

Number 24, Octobre 2012

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Dzogchen, Chan and the Question of Influence (359 kb, pp. 5-20)
author: Sam van Schaik
The Mi nub rgyal mtshan Nam mkha' che And the Mahā Ākāśa Kārikās: Origins and Authenticity (606 kb, pp. 21-80)
author: Christopher Wilkinson
The Exposition of Atiyoga in gNubs-chen Sangs-rgyas ye-shes' bSam-gtan mig-sgron (606 kb, pp. 81-136)
author: Dylan Esler
On the Thig le drug pa and the sPyi chings, two of the Thirteen Later Translations of the rDzogs chen Mind Series (490 kb, pp. 137-156)
author: Karen Liljenberg
Five Principles of rDzogs chen Transmission in the Kun byed rgyal po (312 kb, pp. 157-164)
author: Jim Valby
The Nine Cycles of the Hidden, The Nine Mirrors, and Nine Minor Texts on Mind: Early Mind Section Literature in Bon (513 kb, pp. 165-201)
author: Kurt Keutzer

Number 23, Avril 2012

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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

Number 22, Novembre 2011

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Shenrab’s Ancestors and Family Members: Where do they come from? (397 kb, pp. 1-23)
author: Kalsang Gurung
Rnying ma and Gsar ma: First Appearances of the Terms during the Ealry Phyi dar (Later Spread of the Doctrine) (393 kb, pp. 25-46)
author: Kadri Raudsepp
Biographical Sources for Researching the Life of Ngor chen Kun dga’ bzang po (1382-1456) (778 kb, pp. 47-91)
author: Jörg Heimbel
Doxography and philosophy: the usage and significance of school denominations in Red mda’ ba gzhon nu blo gros’ Ornament of the Proofs of Consciousness (475 kb, pp. 93-119)
author: Pierre-Julien Harter
Gorampa Sonam Senge on the Refutation of the Four Extremes (340 kb, pp. 121-137)
author: Constance Kassor
Instructions on the View (lta khrid) of the Two Truths: Prajñāraśmi's (1518-1584) Bden gnyis gsal ba’i sgron me (1518-1584) (893 kb, pp. 139-213)
author: Marc-Henri Deroche
An Entrance to the Practice Lineage as exemplified in Kaḥ thog Dge rtse Mahāpaṇḍita's Commentary on Sa skya Paṇḍita's Sdom gsum rab dbye (516 kb, pp. 215-242)
author: Tomoko Makidono
Nothing to Teach: Patrul’s Peculiar Preaching on Water, Boats and Bodies (573 kb, pp. 243-277)
author: Joshua Schapiro
Kha gya'i sgar rnying dgon gyi lo rgyus dang da lta'i gnas tshul rob tsam gleng ba (438 kb, pp. 279-299)
author: 'Brug mo dkar
Sommaire des précédents numéros (356 kb, pp. 301-311)

Number 21, Octobre 2011

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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
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Number 20, Avril 2011

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The Liturgies and Oracular Utterances of the Spirit-mediums of Upper Tibet: An Introduction to their bSang Rituals (618 kb, pp. 5-31)
author: John Vincent Bellezza
Reb kong: Religion, History and Identity of a Sino-Tibetan borderland town (504 kb, pp. 33-59)
author: T. Yangdon Dhondup
An Archaeological Account of the Markha Valley, Ladakh (2.9 MB, pp. 61-113)
author: Quentin Devers and Martin Vernier
Alternances entre ḥ et b en tibétain ancien et dans les langues tibétaines modernes (266 kb, pp. 115-122)
author: Nathan W. Hill
Deux remarques supplémentaires à propos du développement du ra-btags en tibétain parlé (324 kb, pp. 123-133)
author: Hiroyuki Suzuki
A Brief Bibliographical Key to Zhang zhung snyan rgyud Editions With Special Attention for Sources on the Early Lineage (905 kb, pp. 135-203)
author: Henk Blezer
The Early Years of Khyung sprul rin po che: Hor (1897-1919) (459 kb, pp. 205-230)
author: Josep Lluís Alay
Sommaire des précédents numéros (217 kb, pp. 231-237)

Number 19, Octobre 2010

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Pehar: A Historical Survey (324 kb, pp. 5-26)
author: Lin Shen-Yu
Notes complémentaires sur les verbes à alternance 'dr- / br- en tibétain (139 kb, pp. 27-29)
author: Guillaume Jacques
gShen-rab Myi-bo: His life and times according to Tibet’s earliest literary sources (4.6 MB, pp. 31-118)
author: John Vincent Bellezza
The Forty Magical Letters: A 19th c. AD Manuscript from Hor on Bon po Scripts (430 kb, pp. 119-132)
author: Josep Lluís Alay
Mesmerizing with the Useless? A book-review inquiry into the ability to properly reprint older worthy material (193 kb, pp. 133-143)
author: Jean-Luc Achard
Sommaire des anciens numéros (180 kb, pp. 144-150)

Number 18, Avril 2010

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Zhangzhung dictionary: Introduction (287 kb, pp. 5-32)
author: Dan Martin
Zhangzhung dictionary (1.6 MB, pp. 33-253)
author: Dan Martin
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Number 17, Octobre 2009

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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

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Number 16, Avril 2009

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Prayer to Ta pi hri tsa: A short exposition of the Base, the Path and the Fruit in Bon Dzogchen teachings (828 kb, pp. 5-41)
author: Ratka Jurkovic
The First Four Themes of Klong chen pa’s Tshig don bcu gcig pa (508 kb, pp. 43-73)
author: Daniel Scheidegger
Deux remarques à propos du développement du ra-btags en Tibétain parlé (124 kb, pp. 75-82)
author: Hiroyuki Suzuki
Book review of Gray Tuttle, Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China New York, Columbia University Press (288 kb, pp. 83-94)
author: Fabienne Jagou
Annonces de parution (92 kb, pp. 95-96)
author: Editors
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines - Déjà parus (196 kb, pp. 97-102)
author: Editors

Number 15, Novembre 2008 - Tibetan Studies in Honour of Samten Karmay, Part II

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Préambule (72 kb, p. 198)
author: Anne-Marie Blondeau
Le Réseau des mille dieux-démons: mythes et classifications (708 kb, pp. 199-250)
author: Anne-Marie Blondeau
Les bKa' brgyad - Sources canoniques et tradition de Nyang ral Myi ma 'od zer (444 kb, pp. 251-274)
author: Tenzin Samphel
The Sun of the Heart and the Bai-ro-rgyud-'bum (284 kb, pp. 275-288)
author: Matthew T. Kapstein
Enduring myths: smrang, rabs and ritual in the Dunhuang texts on Padmasambhava (428 kb, pp. 289-312)
author: Cathy Cantwell and Rob Mayer
The Malevolent Spirits of sTang Valley (Bumthang) — A Bhutanese account (304 kb, pp. 313-330)
author: Kunzang Choden
Tuvinian images of demons from Tibet (380 kb, pp. 331-336)
author: Peter Schwieger
The Buddhist princess and the woolly turban: non-Buddhist others in a 15th century biography (328 kb, pp. 337-356)
author: Hildegard Diemberger
The Cult of Radrap (Ra dgra), 'nep' of Wangdue Phodrang (Bhutan) (252 kb, pp. 357-370)
author: Tandin Dorji
mKha' 'gro dbang mo'i rnam thar, The Biography of the gTer ston ma bDe chen chos kyi dbang mo (1868-1927?) (188 kb, pp. 371-378)
author: Donatella Rossi
A tentative classification of the bya ru can kings of Zhang zhung (624 kb, pp. 379-420)
author: Roberto Vitali
sTon pa gShen rab: six Marriages and many more funerals (824 kb, pp. 421-480)
author: Henk Blezer
A nineteenth-century Bonpo pilgrim in Western Tibet and Nepal: Episodes from the life of dKar ru grub dbang bsTan 'dzin rin chen (392 kb, pp. 481-502)
author: Charles Ramble
Le Corps d'Arc-en-Ciel ('ja' lus) de Shardza Rinpoche illustrant la perfection de la Voie rDzogs chen (560 kb, pp. 503-532)
author: Jean-Luc Achard
Bonpo Tantrics in Kokonor Area (328 kb, pp. 533-552)
author: Tsering Thar

Number 14, Octobre 2008 - Tibetan Studies in Honour of Samten Karmay, Part I

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Préface (130 kb, pp. iii)
author: Françoise Pommaret
How Samten came to Europe (130 kb, pp. 1-6)
author: David Snellgrove
"The Messed Up Books"(Pecha trok wa la). A personal recollection of Samten G. Karmay and the O rgyan chos gling catalogue (Bhutan) (131 kb, pp. 7-12)
author: Françoise Pommaret
Veil of Kashmir -- Poetry of Travel and Travail in Zhangzhungpa's 15th-Century Kavya Reworking of the Biography of the Great Translator Rinchen Zangpo (958-1055 CE) (648 kb, pp. 13-56)
author: Dan Martin
From Red Tally to Yellow Paper -- The official introduction of paper in Tibetan administration in 744/745 (288 kb, pp. 57-70)
author: Helga Uebach
A propos de l'usage des termes "nyin" et "srib" dans le mDo smad chos 'byung (205 kb, pp. 71-80)
author: Anne Chayet
Spelling Mistakes, Philology, and feminist Criticism: Women and Boys in Tibetan Medicine (329 kb, pp. 81-98)
author: Janet Gyatso
A preliminary note to the Gyarong color terms (315 kb, pp. 99-106)
author: Yasuhiko Nagano
Observations on an 11th century Tibetan inscription on a statue of Avalokitésvara (444 kb, pp. 107-116)
author: Amy Heller
Au-delà du débat linguistique : comment définir la littérature tibétaine d'expression chinoise? "Spécificités nationales" et "spécificités regionales" (687 kb, pp. 117-156)
author: Lara Maconi
sMar khams 'bom rnam snang ngam/ lha'dus rnam snang gi skor la cung zad gleng ba (171 kb, pp. 157-195)
author: Tashi Tsering

Number 13, Février 2008

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Deux noms tangoutes dans une légende tibétaine (251 kb, pp. 4-10)
author: Guillaume Jacques
Coiffe de pandit (6.9 MB, pp. 11-44)
author: Etienne Bock
Transgressing the Law: Karma, Theft and Its Punishment (940 kb, pp. 45-74)
author: Richard W. Whitecross
L'irruption de la nescience -- la notion d'errance samsarique dans le rDzogs chen (1.1 MB, pp. 75-108)
author: Jean-Luc Achard
Journal Table of Contents (164 kb, pp. )

Number 12, Mars 2007

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Le nom des naksatrani en tibétain (164 kb, pp. 4-10)
author: Guillaume Jacques
La Roca Blanca de Lhang lhang -- Un santuario en Nyag rong (416 kb, 11-23)
author: Oriol Aguillar
Different Sets of Channels in the Instructions Series of Rdzogs chen (452 kb, pp. 24-38)
author: Daniel Scheiddeger
De la cosmologie tibétaine au mythe de l'Etat -- Historiographie rnyingmapa tamang (Népal) (1.1 MB, 39-70)
author: Brigitte Steinmann
Tamang jatibare sangkshipta sabda citra << Traité sur l'origine de la caste tamang >> (trad. Brigitte Steinmann) (1.0 MB, pp. 71-102)
author: Thubten Gyalcen Lama
Book List of Tibetan History for Tamang Study (62 kb, pp. 103-105)
author: Thubten Gyalcen Lama
The Tibetan Image of Confucius (988 kb, pp. 105-129)
author: Shen-yu Lin
Journal Table of Contents (151 kb, pp. )

Number 11, Juin 2006 - The sGang steng-b rNying ma'i rGyud 'bum manuscript from Bhutan

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Introduction (206 kb, pp. 4-15)
author: Cathy Cantwell & Rob Mayer
The Catalogue section (1.3 MB, pp. 16-141)
author: Cathy Cantwell, Rob Mayer, Michael Kowalewky & Jean-Luc Achard
Journal Table of Contents (87 kb, pp. )