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
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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
Number 55, Juillet 2020 - New Currents on the Neva River
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
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- Cover, contents (129 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Préface (110 kb, pp. 5-8)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - Muddy Waters and Blurred Lines: A ro ye shes ‘byung gnas and the Anomalous Origins of the rDzogs pa chen po Sems sde A ro lugs (227 kb, pp. 9-30)
author: Morten Ostensen - From treatise to tantra: the Pure Golden Ore (rDo la gser zhun) and the Tantra of Meditation on Bodhicitta (Byang chub sems bsgom pa'i rgyud) (579 kb, pp. 31-108)
author: Karen Liljenberg - A Record of the Teachings of the Great Perfection in the Twelfth-century Zur Tradition (258 kb, pp. 109-128)
author: Matthew T. Kapstein - On Being ‘Impartial’ (ris med): From Non-Sectarianism to the Great Perfection (435 kb, pp. 129-158)
author: Marc-Henri Deroche - A Luminous Transcendence of Views: The Thirty Apophatic Topics in dPal dbyangs's Thugs kyi sgron ma (297 kb, pp. 159-177)
author: Kammie Takahashi - Immeasurable, Yet No Bigger than Your Thumb: The Tshon Gang in Bon Dzogchen (622 kb, pp. 178-230)
author: Kurt Keutzer - Zhang Nyi ma ‘bum (1158–1213) et le développement des sNying thig au 12e siècle (447 kb, pp. 231-257)
author: Jean-Luc Achard
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
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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
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
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- Sadhana della divinità solitaria Yamantaka-Vajrabhairava -- Traduzione e glossario della version cinese di Nenghai (Parte II) (934 kb, pp. 4-43)
author: Ester Bianchi - Some Reflections on the Periodization of Tibetan History (181 kb, pp. 44-55)
author: Bryan Cuevas - Two Proposals for Critically Editing the Texts of the rNying ma'i rGyud 'bum (192 kb, pp. 56-70)
author: Cathy Cantwell & Rob Mayer - Pour servir à la numérisation des manuscrits tibétains de Dunhuang conservés à la Bibliothèque Nationale : II. Un fichier de Marcelle Lalou (210 kb, pp. 71-88)
author: Anne Chayet - The Old Tibetan Chronicle -- Chapter I (182 kb, pp. 89-101)
author: Nathan W. Hill - Journal Table of Contents (85 kb, pp. )