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
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 (146 kb, pp. i-iv)
- ‘Dul ba dpe ris: Didactic art on temple architecture in the dGe lugs tradition (3 MB, pp. 5-44)
author: Shiriin Barakzai - The Tibetan-Italian-Tibetan Dictionary of Fr. Orazio della Penna (1680–1745): An Untapped Resource for the History of Tibetan Language, Society and Early Buddhist-Christian Interreligious Contacts (714 kb, pp. 45-68)
author: Federica Venturi - Changing Bodies Seven Times: Padampa Sangyé’s Pacifying Tradition and the Birth of the Maṇi Pill (1.1 MB, pp. 69-153)
author: James Gentry - The Hundred Jātakas (sKyes rab brgya pa) by Āryaśūra (c. 4th cent. CE) and the Third Karma pa, Rang ’byung rdo rje (1284–1339): Overview of the Xylograph Editions (615 kb, pp. 154-191)
author: Dominik Dell, Bruno Galasek-Hul, & Lajos Dömötör - Stepping-Stones magazine – from studies of Buddhism in the Eastern Himalayas to the perspectives of the philosophy of perennialism (215 kb, pp. 192-208)
author: Denis A. Korablin - Compte-rendu de : Franz Xaver Erhard and Thomas Wild, Drumze — Metamorphoses of the Tibetan Carpet (120 kb, pp. 209-212)
author: Amy Heller - Compte-rendu de : John Harrison, Mustang Building: Tibetan Temples and Vernacular Architecture in Nepal Himalaya (152 kb, pp. 213-217)
author: Mark Aldenderfer - Compte-rendu de : John Vincent Bellezza, Besting the Best: Warriors and Warfare in the Cultural and Religious Traditions of Tibet (168 kb, pp. 218-225)
author: Per Kværne
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
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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
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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
Number 40, Juillet 2017 - Studies in The Tibetan Performing Arts
Number 38, Février 2017 - The Tulku (sprul sku) Institution in Tibetan Buddhism
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- Cover, contents (158 kb, pp. i-iv)
- An Indian Classic in 19th-Century Tibet and beyond: Rdza Dpal sprul and the Dissemination of the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra (336 kb, pp. 5-44)
author: Markus Viehbeck - Red Faced Barbarians, Benign Despots and Drunken Masters: Khotan as a Mirror to Tibet (373 kb, pp. 45-68)
author: Sam van Schaik - Women Returning from Death: The Gendered Nature of the Delog Role (336 kb, pp. 69-92)
author: Alyson Prude - In the Bosom of Khotan? A Dialogue between Image and Text (614 kb, pp. 93-119)
author: Yannick Laurent - Tibetans in Wakhan: New Information on Inscriptions and Rock Art (950 kb, pp. 121-141)
author: John Mock - The Nechung Record (1.2 MB, pp. 143-249)
author: Christopher Bell - A review of Nicolas Tournadre, Le Prisme des Langues (545 kb, pp. 251-258)
author: Bai Yunfei - Review of Lopen P. Ogyan Tanzin’s “tshangs-lha-ḥi tshig-mdzod-Tshanglha dictionary” (336 kb, pp. 259-280)
author: Timotheus Adrianus Bodt
Number 31, Février 2015 - Papers for Elliot Sperling
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- Cover, contents (473 kb, pp. i-x)
- Self-Immolation in Tibet: Some Reflections on an Unfolding History (1.9 MB, pp. 1-17)
author: Katia Buffetrille - Self Immolation, the Changing Language of Protest in Tibet (539 kb, pp. 19-40)
author: Tsering Shakya - Political Self-Immolation in Tibet: Causes and Influences (513 kb, pp. 41-64)
author: Robert Barnett - Kīrti Monastery of Ngawa: Its History and Recent Situation (819 kb, pp. 65-80)
author: Daniel Berounský - Chinese Policy Towards Tibet versus Tibetan Expectations for Tibet: A Divergence Marked by Self-Immolations (1.2 MB, pp. 81-87)
author: Fabienne Jagou - Conversations and Debates: Chinese and Tibetan Engagement with the Broader Discussion of Self-Immolation in Tibet (482 kb, pp. 89-97)
author: Elliot Sperling - Online Articles on Self-immolation by Tibetans in Exile — A Brief Survey (182 kb, pp. 99-104)
author: Chung Tsering - bTsan byol bod mi'i drwa thog bod yig dpyad rtsom nas rang lus mer bsregs la blta ba (1.9 MB, pp. 105-112)
author: Chung Tshe ring - The Flames of Poetry Spreading From the Fire of Heroes (1.9 MB, pp. 113-122)
author: Noyontsang Lhamokyab - Fire, Flames and Ashes. How Tibetan Poets Talk about Self-Immolations without Talking about Them (344 kb, pp. 123-131)
author: Françoise Robin - Fire and Death in Western Imagination (228 kb, pp. 133-141)
author: Michel Vovelle - Self-Immolation in Context, 1963-2012 (781 kb, pp. 143-150)
author: Michael Biggs - Immolation in a Global Muslim Society Revolt against Authority — Transgression of Strict Religious Laws (248 kb, pp. 151-157)
author: Dominique Avon - Self-Immolations by Kurdish Activists in Turkey and Europe (254 kb, pp. 159-168)
author: Olivier Grojean - The Arab Revolutions and Self-Immolation (252 kb, pp. 169-179)
author: Farhad Khosrokhavar - Self-Immolation by Fire versus Legitimate Violence in the Hindu Context (245 kb, pp. 181-189)
author: Marie Lecomte-Tilouine - Immolations in Japan (322 kb, pp. 191-201)
author: François Macé - Multiple Meanings of Buddhist Self-Immolation in China — A Historical Perspective (237 kb, pp. 203-212)
author: James A. Benn
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- Cover, contents (170 kb, pp. 1-4)
- Singing the Nation: Modern Tibetan Music and National Identity (516 kb, pp. 1-29)
author: Lama Jabb - The Alternative to Development on the Tibetan Plateau: Preliminary Research on the Anti-Slaughter Movement (229 kb, pp. 31-43)
author: Gaerrang (Kabzung) - The Third Dragkar Lama: An Important Figure for Female Monasticism in the Beginning of Twentieth Century Kham (290 kb, pp. 45-60)
author: Nicola Schneider - Powerful Women in the History of Degé: Reassessing the Eventful Reign of the Dowager Queen Tsewang Lhamo (d. 1812) (369 kb, pp. 61-81)
author: Jann Ronis - Theorising the King: Implicit and Explicit Sources for the Study of Tibetan Sacred Kingship (377 kb, pp. 83-103)
author: Brandon Dotson - The Early History of Mgar: When History Becomes Legend (324 kb, pp. 105-121)
author: Thomas Kerihuel - Trinkets, Temples, and Treasures: Tibetan Material Culture and the 1904 British Mission to Tibet (631 kb, pp. 123-153)
author: Tim Myatt - The Careers of the Noble Officials of the Ganden Phodrang (1895-1959): Organisation and Hereditary Divisions within the Service of State (406 kb, pp. 155-174)
author: Alice Travers - Bod kyi srol rgyun srid khrims gyi ngo bo dang da snga'i gnas stangs la dpyad nas spyi tshogs bde 'jags la phan nges pa'i don tshan 'ga' la rags tsam gleng ba (561 kb, pp. 175-218)
author: Sonam Tsering - Gzhung sa dga' ldan pho brang gi sa gnas srid 'dzin byang spyi dang byang phyi sde khag gi lo rgyus yig tsahgs la dpyad pa (446 kb, pp. 219-241)
author: Dobis Tsering Gyal - Sommaire des précédents numéros (274 kb, pp. 243-252)
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
