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 78, Juin 2025, Sprouts of Early Twentieth Century Tibetan National Consciousness
Number 77, Mai 2025, Responding to Epidemic Outbreaks in Tibetan Contexts
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- Divided by Scholasticism: Revealing Early Sources on What Separated the Monasteries of Rwa sgreng and Gsang phu (727 kB, pp. 5-86)
author: Jonathan Samuels - Some Bibliographic Remarks on the Contributions to the Language Arts by Two Early Fifteenth Century Tibetan Writers, Bo dong Paṇ chen and Snar thang Lo tsā ba (285 kB, pp. 87-109)
author: Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp - Contextualizing a Mystery of Indic Commentaries on the Bhadracaryāpraṇidhāna (971 kB, pp. 110-179)
author: Maria Vasylieva - In Honor of the Jubilees of Anna Tsendina and Vladimir Uspensky (287 kB, pp. 180-195)
author: Alexander Zorin - Community Territorialization through Monastery Construction in Tsongön (Qinghai): Pastoralist Migration and Settlement in the 19th and 20th Centuries (857 kB, pp. 196-236)
author: Cameron Foltz - Exploring Meditation in Tibet: Insights from Tsongkhapa and Yeshe Gyaltsen's Guide to Tranquil Abiding (447 kB, pp. 237-276)
author: Lobsang Gnon-na - Notes on the Iconographical Program of Giorgi’s Alphabetum Tibetanum (1762) (948 kB, pp. 277-307)
author: Robert Pomplun - Dharmabhāṇakas, Siddhas, Avatārakasiddhas, and gTer stons: Rethinking Treasure (Part Three) (687 kB, pp. 308-355)
author: Rob Mayer
Number 75, Mars 2025, New Directions and Emergent Conversations in Tibetan Studies
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- Political and Economic Geographies across the Eastern Himalayas: The Cost of Cross-Border Transportation in the 1940s-50s Kalimpong (584 kB, pp. 5-45)
author: Lucia Galli - The Bheda’s Pony — Horse breeding, castration, and trade in Spiti in the 18th–20th centuries (1.1 mb, pp. 46-103)
author: Yannick Laurent - Newly discovered rock paintings from Berinag (Uttarakhand, India) as mythograms (1 mb, pp. 104-123)
author: Maheshwar P. Joshi, Tarun Mahara, Vijay Bahuguna, Suresh C. Tamta, Piyush Bhatt, M.M. Joshi, C.P. Fuloria - Is there Beer in Tuṣita? Dialogue with the Fourth Karma pa, Rol pa’i rdo rje (1340–1383), about his Intermediate State (bar do) (331 kb, pp. 124-151)
author: Dominik Dell - Unfrozen Dragon: National Ethos and Identity in Bhutan as Constructed in Musical Performances at National Ceremonies (396 kb, pp. 152-171)
author: Yanfang Liou - Inner Asian Clans in Early Tibet and their Place in the Nyingmapa and Bon Traditions (236 kb, pp. 172-189)
author: Todd Gibson - Compte-rendu de “Deroche, Marc-Henri, Une Quête tibétaine de la sagesse: Prajñāraśmi (1518–1584) et l’attitude impartiale (ris med) (152 kb, pp. 190-196)
author: Andrew S. Taylor - Compte-rendu de “Cameron Bailey and Aleksandra Wenta (eds.), Tibetan Magic: Past and Present (143 kb, pp. 197-204)
author: Per Kværne - Compte-rendu de “Travers, Alice, Peter Schwieger and Charles Ramble, eds., Taxation in Tibetan Societies (231 kb, pp. 205-213)
author: Christian Jahoda
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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- 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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- 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
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
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
