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 (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
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 (137 kb, pp. 1-4)
- An Old Tibetan Dunhuang Manuscript of the Avaivartikacakrasūtra in the Stein Collection collated with Tibetan Kanjurs (2.4 MB, pp. 5-333)
author: James B. Apple
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
Number 51, Juillet 2019 - Perspectives on Tibetan Culture
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- Cover, contents (292 kb, pp. i-viii, pp. 9-13)
- “dByar rtswa dgun ’bu is a Marvellous Thing”. Some Notes on the Concept of Ophiocordyceps sinensis among Tibetan People and its Significance in Tibetan Medicine (118 kb, pp. 15-38)
author: Alessandro Boesi - Ladakhi Knowledge and Western Learning: A. H. Francke’s Teachers, Guides and Friends in the Western Himalaya (945 kb, pp. 39-72)
author: John Bray - A Condensed Catalogue of 16th Century Tibetan Xylographs from South-Western Tibet (138 kb, pp. 73-98)
author: Michela Clemente - The Historical Development of Tibetan “Minzu” Identity through Chinese Eyes: A Preliminary Analysis (173 kb, pp. 99-118)
author: Mauro Crocenzi - Apropos a Recent Collection of Tibetan Xylographs from the 15th to the 17th Centuries (127 kb, pp. 119-140)
author: Franz Karl Ehrhard and Marta Sernesi - Ein Kanjurtext auf Gebetsfahnen: Dhvajāgrakeyūradhāraṇī, rGyal mtshan gyi rtse mo’i dpung rgyan ces bya ba’i gzungs (202 kb, pp. 141-157)
author: Helmut Eimer - Three Ancient Manuscripts from Tholing in the Tucci Collection, IsIAO, Roma, Part III: Manuscript 1329 F (849 kb, pp. 159-170)
author: Amy Heller - A g.yung drung bon description of Mount Kailāśa Gangs Ti se) (118 kb, pp. 171-187)
author: Per Kværne - Note in margine all’archivio fotografico di Fosco Maraini (941 kb, pp. 189-202)
author: Erberto Lo Bue - A Crucial Link in 15th-century Tibetan Art (2 MB, pp. 203-226)
author: Christian Luczanits - The Bla ma mchod pa tshogs zhing of the dGe lugs pa Tradition: Introductory Analysis to the Iconography of the Oldest Images of the “Field of the Accumulation of Merits” (1.2 MB, pp. 227-244)
author: Filippo Lunardo - The Monastery of Tholing in 1933 (3 MB, pp. 245-273)
author: Oscar Nalesini - The Great Seal and the Path of Means according to Par phu pa Blo gros seng ge (175 kb, pp. 275-300)
author: Marco Passavanti - The Don gsum (Three Teachings) of Lady Co za Bon mo. A Bon po gter ma from the G. Tucci Tibetan Fund (130 kb, pp. 301-321)
author: Donatella Rossi - The Appearance of gcod in the rNying ma School (151 kb, pp. 323-336)
author: Fabian Sanders and Margherita Pansa - Manuscript Fragments from Matho. A Preliminary Report and Random Reflections (1.6 MB, pp. 337-378)
author: Helmut Tauscher - Mi la ras pa on the Intermediate State: An Introduction and Translation of “Profound Instructions on the Direct Introduction to the Intermediate State, Using the Mind to Discriminate the Path” (128 kb, pp. 379-403)
author: Francis Tiso - The Great Maṇi Wall Inscription at Hemis revisited (181 kb, pp. 405-414)
author: Helga Uebach and Jampa L. Panglung - A gnas yig to the Holy Place of Pretapurī (519 kb, pp. 415-447)
author: Federica Venturi - Hor khrims and the Tibetans: A Recapitulation of its Enforcements in the Years 1240-1260 (115 kb, pp. 449-468)
author: Roberto Vitali
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
