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 71, Tibet and the Oirats — The Oirat Legacy and the Origins of Tibetology
Number 69, 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
- Full text (13.8 MB)
- 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
- Full text (5.4 MB)
- 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
- Full text (4.4 MB)
- 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