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
Number 62, Février 2022 - For A Critical History of the Northern Treasures
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- Cover, contents (152 kb, pp. 1-4)
- Tāranātha on the Emergence of the Tantric Cycle of Vajrabhairava-Yamāntaka: Writing a Tibetan Buddhist Historiography in Seventeenth-Century Tibet (492 kb, pp. 5-52)
author: Aleksandra Wenta - L’Allemagne au-dessus de l’Himalaya : des SS sur le toit du monde (684 kb, pp. 53-109)
author: Charlie Caron-Belloni - “Feast of the Wise”: Author, Structure and Textual Witnesses of the 16th Century Religio-Historical Work Chos ’byung mkhas pa’i dga’ ston by the Second dPa’ bo, gTsug lag phreng ba (1504–1566) (543 kb, pp. 110-165)
author: Dominik Dell - The Sum-pa – nomads of the northern plateau. On the issue of the Sum-pa tribesꞌ settlement area (307 kb, pp. 166-183)
author: Mariia Sokhina - rDo rje Sems dpa’ Nam mkha’ che’i rGyud — An Analysis of the Tantra of the Total Space of Vajrasattva (274 kb, pp. 184-208)
author: Adriano Clemente - Comparing Historical Tibetan Population Estimates with the Monks and Nuns: What was the Clerical Proportion? (2 MB, pp. 209-231)
author: Karl E. Ryavec & Rocco N. Bowman - The Newly Identified Saint Petersburg Manuscript of the Collection of Songs by the 6th Dalai Lama: the Text (3.1 MB, pp. 232-275)
author: Alexander Zorin - Tibetan Buddhist Vanguards among the Mongols and Manchus, 1576-1638 (360 kb, pp. 276-299)
author: Gray Tuttle & Lan Wu - Game Changers of the Tibetan Buddhist Political Order in Central Asia in the Early Eighteenth Century (310 kb, pp. 300-322)
author: Darig Thokmay - Remarks on the term tshad ma’i skyes bu and the notion of novelty of valid cognition in the bKa’ brgyud tradition (295 kb, pp. 323-338)
author: Artur Przybyslawski - Naming the empire: from Bod to Tibet—A philologico-historical study on the origin of the polity (1.1 MB, pp. 339-402)
author: Joanna Bialek - A Tibetan History of Lesser Knowledge: The Coming of Poetry in The Five Minor Fields of Learning (314 kb, pp. 403-420)
author: Tenzin Tsepak
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- Cover, contents (137 kb, pp. 1-4)
- “Giving a Meaning to an Illusory Wealth.” A Trader’s Pilgrimage (532 kb, pp. 5-59)
author: Lucia Galli - Misdiagnosis or Political Assassination? Re-examining the Death of Panchen Lama Lobsang Palden Yeshe from Smallpox in 1780 (309 kb, pp. 60-80)
author: Lobsang Yongdan - Birthplace of the Seventh Karma pa, Chos grags rgya mtsho (1454–1506): Description draws from Tibetan Geomancy and Pilgrimage Guidebooks (381 kb, pp. 81-102)
author: Dominik Dell - Human Engagement on Manuscript Margins: Glimpses into the Social Life of a Collection of Buddhist Sūtras from Mustang (3 MB, pp. 103-138)
author: Markus Viehbeck - Entangled Objects: Gift, Reciprocity and the Making of the Imperial Subject in 18th Century Tibet (364 kb, pp. 139-164)
author: Riga Tsegyal Shakya - The Old sNar thang Tibetan Buddhist Canon Revisited, with Special Reference to dBus pa blo gsal’s bsTan ’gyur Catalogue (502 kb, pp. 165-207)
author: Orna Almogi - “Empty Like the Sky”: Polysemy and the Problem of “Mere Clear Awareness” at the Intersection of Sūtra and Tantra in Fifteenth-century Tibet (406 kb, pp. 208-236)
author: Rae Dachille - On the Version of the Vajracchedikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra Used in the 18th Century Kalmyk Scrolls (739 kb, pp. 237-266)
author: Alexander Zorin - Tibetan Expertise in Sanskrit Grammar (5): Two Blo gros brtan pas on Vyākaraṇa – So many Sthiramatis (5.7 MB, pp. 267-300)
author: Peter Verhagen - Compte-rendu de : Jeannine Bischoff, Petra Maurer, and Charles Ramble (eds.), On a Day of a Month of the Fire Bird Year. Festschrift for Peter Schwieger on the occasion of his 65th birthday (147 kb, pp. 301-305)
author: Per Kværne - Compte-rendu de : Alexander Kingsbury Smith, Divination in Exile. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ritual Prognostication in the Tibetan Bon Tradition (134 kb, pp. 306-310)
author: Per Kværne
Number 55, Juillet 2020 - New Currents on the Neva River
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- 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
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- Cover, contents (88 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Introduction (143 kb, pp. 5-12)
author: James D. Gentry - The senses in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism from a philosophical perspective (230 kb, pp. 13–39)
author: Jiri Holba - A Bon tantric approach to the senses: the evidence from Khu tsha zla 'od’s Black Pillar (Ka ba nag po man ngag rtsa ba'i rgyud) (276 kb, pp. 40-55)
author: Robert Mayer - Embodying the divine in tantric ritual practice: examples from the Chinese Karakhoto manuscripts from the Tangut empire (ca. 1038–1227) (258 kb, pp. 56-72)
author: Carmen Meinert - Liberation through sensory encounters in Tibetan Buddhist practice (603 kb, pp. 73–131)
author: James D. Gentry - Luminous visions and liberatory amulets in Rig 'dzin rGod ldem’s Great Perfection anthology (205 kb, pp. 132–149)
author: Katarina Turpeinen - The Ceremony for Imbibing the Siddhis, with particular reference to examples from Nyang ral Nyi ma 'od zer’s bKa' brgyad bde gshegs 'dus pa (501 kb, pp. 150–165)
author: Cathy Cantwell - Unicorns, myrobalans, and eyes: senses in ritual structure and matter in g.Yung drung Bon, a Tibetan tantric tradition (353 kb, pp. 166–211)
author: Anna Sehnalova - Tears like fluttering leaves: karmic resentment and the senses in Gesar’s journey through hell (283 kb, pp. 212–234)
author: Natasha L. Mikles - Seeing through your eyes: senses, emotions, science, and the plasticity of personhood in Tibetan Buddhism (302 kb, pp. 235-256)
author: Ana Cristina O. Lopes
Number 49, Mai 2019 - Reflections on Social Status in the Tibetan World
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- Cover, contents (130 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Fourteenth Century Tibetan Cultural History III: The Oeuvre of Bla ma dam pa Bsod nams rgyal mtshan (1312–1375), Part Two (609 kb, pp. 5-89)
author: Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp - Tibet in Old Turkic Texts (202 kb, pp. 90-97)
author: Erhan Aydın - “What Does Babu Say?”, a Pinch of Artistic Approach to News Reporting in The Tibet Mirror (1949-1963) (489 kb, pp. 98-148)
author: Natalia Moskaleva - Compte-rendu de Saul Mullard & Jeannine Bischoff (eds.), Social Regulation. Case Studies from Tibetan History, Brill Tibetan Studies Library, 41, Brill 2017 (151 kb, pp. 149-153)
author: Franz Xaver Erhard - Compte-rendu de Akester, Matthew, Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo's Guide to Central Tibet, Serindia Publications, Chicago 2016 (126 kb, pp. 154-157)
author: Per Kværne
Number 44, Mars 2018 - Etudes rDzogs chen — Volume II
Number 43, Janvier 2018 - Etudes rDzogs chen — Volume I
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- Cover, contents (129 kb, pp. i-iv)
- The Swastika, Stepped Shrine, Priest, Horned Eagle, and Wild Yak Rider — Prominent antecedents of Yungdrung Bon figurative and symbolic traditions in the rock art of Upper Tibet (3.65 MB, pp. 5-38)
author: John Bellezza - The Strange Case of the “Buddha from Space” (670 kb, pp. 39-67)
author: Isrun Engelhardt - A Re-evaluation of Pelliot tibétain 1257: An Early Tibetan-Chinese Glossary from Dunhuang (3.1 MB, pp. 68-180)
author: James B. Apple and Shinobu A. Apple - Is it possible to write a “Tibetan” poem in French? Tentative reflections on Victor Segalen’s Thibet (333 kb, pp. 181-216)
author: Bai Yunfei - Studies in Tibetan Indigenous Grammar (4): A Sixteenth-century Survey of Sum rtags and Related Literature (Appendix: Sa skya Paṇḍita's Mkhas pa'i kha rgyan) (439 kb, pp. 217-245)
author: Pieter Cornelis Verhagen - Studies in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Hermeneutics (7): Sa skya Paṇḍita's Mkhas 'jug on the Sanskrit-Tibetan Interface: Synthesis, Comparison and Translation (259 kb, pp. 246-267)
author: Pieter Cornelis Verhagen - “Dying Mongol and Being Reborn Tibetan”: Otherness and the Integration of Foreigners in the Landscape of Amdo (445 kb, pp. 268-288)
author: Valentina Punzi - Compte rendu de : James Duncan Gentry. Power Objects in Tibetan Buddhism: The Life, Writings, and Legacy of Sokdokpa Lodrö Gyeltsen (130 kb, pp. 289-295)
author: Lewis Doney
Number 40, Juillet 2017 - Studies in The Tibetan Performing Arts
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- Cover, contents (146 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Sorcerer of the Iron Castle: The Life of Blo bzang bstan pa rab rgyas, the First Brag dkar sngags rams pa of A mdo (c. 1647-1726) (561 kb, pp. 5–59)
author: Bryan J. Cuevas - The Khache Phalu: A Translation and Interpretation (545 kb, pp. 60-132)
author: Nicolas Bommarito - Introduction to and Translation of The Garland of Light: Lives of the Masters of the Northern Treasure Tradition (393 kb, pp. 133-165)
author: Jay Holt Valentine - Notes apropos to the Œuvre of Si tu Paṇ chen Chos kyi 'byung gnas (1699?-1774) (5) — The 'Eight-Stanza Hymn to Mahākāla': A Glimpse of the Translator at Work (545 kb, pp. 166-228)
author: Pieter Cornelis Verhagen - On Maṇi and Epigraphy — Four Stone Inscriptions from Spiti (2.2 MB, pp. 229-265)
author: Yannick Laurent - Tibetan documents in the archives of the Tantric Lamas of Tshognam in Mustang, Nepal: An interdisciplinary case study (2.4 MB, pp. 266-341)
author: Agnieszka Helman-Ważny & Charles Ramble - Materials Toward the Study of Vasubandhu’s Viṁśikā (II): An edition of the Dunhuang Manuscript Pelliot tibétain 797 (315 kb, pp. 342-360)
author: Jonathan A. Silk - A review of Janet Gyatso. Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (135 kb, pp. 361-366)
author: Cathy Cantwell
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