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
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
- Full text (9.8 MB)
- Cover, contents (250 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Preface: Ancient Currents, New Traditions (102 kb, pp. v-vii)
author: Franz Xaver Erhard, Jeannine Bischoff, Lewis Doney, Jörg Heimbel, Emilia Sulek - Keynote: A Story of Academic and Cultural Curiosity. Leipzig and the Rise of Tibetology in Germany (975 kb, pp. 1-12)
author: Per K. Sørensen - A Tibetan Protector Deity Theogony: An Eighteenth Century “Explicit” Buddhist Pantheon and Some of its Political Aspects (238 kb, pp. 13-28)
author: Cameron Bailey - Bod lugs zla ba ngos ‘dzin (320 kb, pp. 29-47)
author: Byams pa chos ’phel - Examining the Blo sbyong Component in Thogs med bzang po’s Collected Works (360 kb, pp. 48-68)
author: Gloria I-Ling Chien - A Richness of Detail: Sangs rgyas gling pa and the Padma bka’ thang (451 kb, pp. 69-97)
author: Lewis Doney - bKa’ brgyud Treasure and rNying ma Revealer: The Sras mkhar ma of Mar pa Lo tsā ba (401 kb, pp. 98-126)
author: Cécile Ducher - On the Historical Background of a Buddhist Polemical Exchange between Tibetan and Mongolian Scholars in the 19th Century (422 kb, pp. 127-144)
author: ErdeneBaatar Erdene-Ochir - The Disciplinarian (dge skos/ dge bskos/ chos khrims pa/ zhal ngo) in Tibetan Monasteries: his Role and his Rules (287 kb, pp. 145-161)
author: Berthe Jansen - A mdo, Collected Works (gSung ’bum), and Prosopography (750 kb, pp. 162-177)
author: Hanung Kim - Smartphones, Weixin and Beautiful Bodies: The Role of Mobile Technologies for Crafting Desired Selves in Lhasa (348 kb, pp. 178-206)
author: Anne Kukuczka - Translationship Lost in Transmission: Elusive Attributions of Two Tibetan Sūtra Translations (1.5 MB, pp. 207-230)
author: Channa Li - Buddhicizing the Warrior-King Gesar in the dMyal gling rDzogs pa Chen po (180 kb, pp. 231-246)
author: Natasha L. Mikles - Sketches of Contemporary Tibetan History in The Tibet Mirror (1949–1963) (246 kb, pp. 247-261)
author: Natalia Moskaleva - Old Tibetan Scapulimancy (229 kb, pp. 262-277)
author: Ai Nishida - A Study on nang zan: On the Reality of the “Servant Worker” in Traditional Tibetan Society (168 kb, pp. 278-292)
author: Kensaku Okawa - Are We Legend? Reconsidering Clan in Tibet (242 kb, pp. 293-314)
author: Jonathan Samuels - Foreign News in Early Tibetan-Language Newspapers: Covering Adolf Hitler in the Melong (954 kb, pp. 315-334)
author: Anna Sawerthal - sGam po pa’s Doctrinal System: A Programmatic Way to Buddhahood for Beings of Varying Capacity, Both Gradual and Sudden? (258 kb, pp. 335-351)
author: Rolf Scheuermann - The Pointed Spear of a Siddha and its Commentaries: The ’Brug pa bka’ brgyud School in Defence of the Mahāmudrā Doctrine (258 kb, pp. 352-373)
author: Dagmar Schwerk - Searching for Tibetanness: Tenzing Rigdol’s Attempt to Visualize Tibetan Identity (786 kb, pp. 374-390)
author: Eva Maria Seidel - The “Brilliant Moon Theriac” (Zla zil dar ya kan): A Preliminary Study of Mercury Processing According to the Vase of Amṛta of Immortality (’Chi med bdud rtsi bum pa) and its Influence on Tibetan Pharmacological literature (430 kb, pp. 391-419)
author: Carmen Simioli - gNa’ bo’i mon dang mon pa’i rus la dpyad pa (549 kb, pp. 420-450)
author: bsTan ’dzin chos ’phel - Labtse Construction and Differentiation in Rural Amdo (1.5 MB, pp. 451-468)
author: Rahel Tsering - Coming to Terms with Tibet: Scholarly Networks and the Production of the First “Modern” Tibetan Dictionaries (213 kb, pp. 469-489)
author: Markus Viehbeck - Characters in Modern Tibetan Fiction Set in Pre-1950s Central Tibet: Aristocrats, Common Folk and Others (348 kb, pp. 490-513)
author: Riika J. Virtanen - Between Family and Transmission Lineage: Two Historical Works of the rNgog bKa’ brgyud pa (422 kb, pp. 514-532)
author: Marco Walther - Preservation and Continuity: The Ache Lhamo Tradition Inside and Outside the Tibet Autonomous Region (238 kb, pp. 533-549)
author: Daniel Wojahn - Tracing the Chol kha gsum: Reexamining a Sa skya-Yuan Period Administrative Geography (295 kb, pp. 550-567)
author: Eveline Yang - Reorienting the Sacred and Accommodating the Secular: The History of Buddhism in China (rGya nag chos ’byung) (541 kb, pp. 568-590)
author: Fan Zhang - The Wholesome Streams (dGe ba’i chu rgyun): Tshe dbang nor bu’s Treatment of the Chinese Monk’s Simultaneist Approach to Awakening (307 kb, pp. 591-609)
author: Linghui Zhang
- Full text (2.9 MB)
- Cover, contents (197 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Editorial: Female Specialists between Autonomy and Ambivalence (143 kb, pp. i-viii)
author: Mona Schrempf & Nicola Schneider - Born to Practice: The Sakya Jetsunma Phenomenon (352 kb, pp. 1-20)
author: Elisabeth Benard - Heroic Destinies and Petty Claims: Women and the Transformation of Shamanic Practices in the Hills of Nepal (262 kb, pp. 21-34)
author: Anne de Sales - Female Temple Founders, Ritualists, and Clairvoyants in Post-Socialist Mongolian Buddhism (401 kb, pp. 35-52)
author: Hanna Havnevik - Gender and Medicine in Kham: An Analysis of the Medical Work and Life of Derge Phurpa Dolma (344 kb, pp. 53-77)
author: Theresia Hofer - Relational Autonomy in the Life of a Contemporary Tibetan Ḍākinī (430 kb, pp. 79-113)
author: Sarah Jacoby - Empowering Religious Women Practitioners in Contemporary Bhutan (250 kb, pp. 115-139)
author: Françoise Pommaret - Fieldnotes on my Stay with a Neljom Teacher and her Disciples in Western Bhutan (213 kb, pp. 139-151)
author: Johanna Prien - Caring for Women’s Words and Women’s Bodies. A Field Note on Palmo and her “Demoness Welfare Association for Women” (225 kb, pp. 153-169)
author: Françoise Robin - Self-Representation and Stories Told: the Life and Vicissitudes of Khandro Choechen (356 kb, pp. 171-188)
author: Nicola Schneider - Becoming a Female Ritual Healer in Eastern Bhutan (336 kb, pp. 189-213)
author: Mona Schrempf - Notes on Contributors (82 kb, pp. 215-217)
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Number 31, Février 2015 - Papers for Elliot Sperling
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- Cover, contents (1.1 MB, pp. i-vi)
- Editorial (304 kb, pp. vii-ix)
author: Roberto Vitali - Elliot Sperling’s Bibliography (1.1 MB, pp. xi-xvi)
author: Roberto Vitali - The View of sPyi ti Yoga (792 kb, pp. 1-20)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - The First Mongol Contacts with the Tibetans (807 kb, pp. 21-45)
author: Christopher P. Atwood - Dalai Lama’s Representative Agvan Dorjiev and Altaist Professor Władysław Kotwicz: Letters of 1912 (6.5 MB, pp. 47-62)
author: Agata Bareja-Starzyńska - Interpreting the Body Maṇḍala: Tsongkhapa versus Later Gelug Scholars (500 kb, pp. 63-74)
author: Yael Bentor - A General Investigation into the Life of the Tshe smon gling Regent Ngag dbang ‘jam dpal tshul khrims (in Tibetan) (267 kb, pp. 75-93)
author: Be ri ’Jigs med dbang rgyal - Tibetan “Magical Rituals” (las sna tshogs) from the Power of Tsongkhapa (1.4 MB, pp. 95-111)
author: Daniel Berounsky - A Controversy on Vegetarianism (482 kb, pp. 113-127)
author: Katia Buffetrille - Imperial Interest Made Manifest: sGa A gnyan dam pa’s Mahākāla Protector Chapel of the Tre shod Maṇḍala Plain (10.8 MB, pp. 129-166)
author: Karl Debreczeny - Gter-ma as Imperial Treasure: The 1755 Beijing Edition of the Padma bka’ thang (4.6 MB, pp. 167-187)
author: Matthew T. Kapstein - Béla Széchenyi’s Amdo Tibetan “Root Words” and the Names of the Tibetan Letters (576 kb, pp. 189-198)
author: György Kara and Marta Kiripolská - On Social Death: The Spang mda’ tsang Family and 20th Century Tibetan History (445 kb, pp. 199-205)
author: Carole McGranahan - How to Address Kings: Buddhist Letters to Indian Rulers (490 kb, pp. 207-215)
author: Richard F. Nance - Understanding Sovereignty in Amdo (2 MB, pp. 217-232)
author: Paul K. Nietupski - The Lhasa Ripper, A Preliminary Investigation into the “Dark Underbelly” of Social Life in the Holy City (6.5 MB, pp. 233-250)
author: Jamyang Norbu - A Research on How the Poet Ksemendra Became a Religious King (in Tibetan) (395 kb, pp. 251-269)
author: dGe ‘dun rab gsal - Primeval Tibetan Medicine (in Tibetan) (283 kb, pp. 271-295)
author: Rag rdo Blo bzang bstan ‘dzin) - Letters to the Khans, Six Tibetan Epistles of Togdugpa Addressed to the Mongol Rulers Hulegu and Khubilai, as well as to the Tibetan Lama Pagpa (669 kb, pp. 297-331)
author: Jampa Samten and Dan Martin - A Document on the Policy on Foreigners in Tibet after the Anglo-Chinese Convention of 1906 (1.7 MB, pp. 333-343)
author: Peter Schwieger - Central Asian Muslims on Tibetan Buddhism, 16th-18th Centuries (488 kb, pp. 345-358)
author: Ron Sela - Ga rgya ‘gram nag: A Bandit or a Proto-Rebel? The Question of Banditry as Social Protest in Nag chu (441 kb, pp. 359-375)
author: Tsering Shakya - The Ro ‘gag lung gshong Battle (in Tibetan) (227 kb, pp. 377-383)
author: Chab mdo Shes rab - Origins of the Middle Way Policy (408 kb, pp. 385-399)
author: Warren Smith - The Function of Auxiliary Verbs in Tibetan Predicates and Their Historical Development (1.3 MB, pp. 401-415)
author: Tsuguhito Takeuchi - A Study on the Historiographical Material Concerning the Kings of sDe dge (in Tibetan) (642 kb, pp. 417-459)
author: Jo sras bKra shis tshe ring - Altan Qaγan (1507-1582) of the Tümed Mongols and the Stag lung Abbot Kun dga’ bkra shis rgyal mtshan (1575-1635) (930 kb, pp. 461-482)
author: Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp and Gray Tuttle - The Thirteenth Dalai Lama on Warfare, Weapons, and the Right to Self-Defense (550 kb, pp. 483-509)
author: Federica Venturi - The Book of Names of Nyang stod bla ma-s: Masters and Events of the Years 997-1354 (907 kb, pp. 511-576)
author: Roberto Vitali - Thu’u bkwan’s Literary Adaptations of the Life of Dgongs pa rab gsal (744 kb, pp. 577-591)
author: Nicole Willock - 记埃利亚特·史伯岭 (For Elliot Sperling) (in Chinese) (791 kb, pp. 593-596)
author: 唯色 (Woeser)
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- On the Life of gNubs-chen Sangs-rgyas ye-shes (247 kb, pp. 5-27)
author: Dylan Esler - Sikkim and the Sino-Nepalese War of 1788-1792: A Communiqué from Băo tài to the Sikkimese Commander Yug Phyogs thub (669 kb, pp. 29-37)
author: Saul Mullard - A Tibetan Catalogue of the Works of ’Jigs-med gling-pa (330 kb, pp. 39-63)
author: Sam van Schaik - Khri ka'i jo jo lha khang gi byung ba dang gnas bab la rags tsam dpyad pa (509 kb, pp. 65-89)
author: 'Dzoms skyid sgrol ma - Some Tibetan verb forms that violate Dempsey's law (1.9 MB, pp. 91-101)
author: Nathan W. Hill - The Upper Temple of Dangkhar Monastery — Iconographical Capharnaüm or Political Manoeuvre? (1.6 MB, pp. 103-153)
author: Lobsang Nyima Laurent - Straddling the Millennial Divide — A case study of persistence and change in the Tibetan ritual tradition based on the Gnag rabs of Gathang Bumpa and Eternal Bon documents, circa 900–1100 CE (669 kb, pp. 155-243)
author: John Vincent Bellezza - Aspects of the Traditional Gambling known as Sho in Modern Lhasa, Tibet ― religious and gendered worldviews infusing the Tibetan dice game (419 kb, pp. 245-270)
author: Daisuke Murakami
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