Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines
The
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
Number 75, Mars 2025, New Directions and Emergent Conversations in Tibetan Studies
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
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
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- Cover, contents (91 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Tibetan zero nominalization (96 kb, pp. 5-9)
author: Nathan W. Hill - Amdo politics and religion—Tuken Losang Choki Nyima (Thu’u bkwan Blo bzang chos kyi nyi ma, 1737-1802) (271 kb, pp. 10-35)
author: Paul K. Nietupski - A collection of Spiti songs sung at village festivals and private gatherings (271 kb, pp. 36-49)
author: Veronika Hein - The Mingled Melody: Remembering the Tibetan March 10th Uprising (387 kb, pp. 50-98)
author: Lama Jabb - An outline of the sound structure of Lhagang Choyu: A newly recognised highly endangered language in Khams Minyag (901 kb, pp. 99-151)
author: Hiroyuki Suzuki & Sonam Wangmo - Tibetan Studies and the Art of Dialogue (286 kb, pp. 152-169)
author: Sarah H. Jacoby - Pilgrimage Guide of the Tibetan Buddhist Holy Mountain Brag dkar sprel rdzong (185 kb, pp. 170-183)
author: Nakza Drolma - Material culture as proxy for language: the Himalayan evidence (2.3 MB, pp. 184-232)
author: Maheshwar P. Joshi - Compte-rendu de “Fabienne Jagou, The Hybridity of Buddhism, Etudes thématiques vol. 29, Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient, 2018” (104 kb, pp. 233-236)
author: Jean-Luc Achard
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- Cover, contents (138 kb, pp. i-iv)
- A Late Proponent of the Jo nang gZhan stong Doctrine: Ngag dbang tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho (1 MB, pp. 5-50)
author: Filippo Brambilla - Ratsag Monastery and its Vajrayoginī Nāro Khecarī Statue (1.9 MB, pp. 51-68)
author: Joona Repo - A study of written and oral narratives of Lhagang in Eastern Tibet (289 kb, pp. 69-88)
author: Sonam Wangmo - The Red Buddha Hall Road Revisited: New Information about the Tibetan and Tang Empires in Afghanistan Wakhan (2.2 MB, pp. 89-109)
author: John Mock - The Transformation of the Qing’s Geopolitics: Power Transitions between Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries in Amdo (2.7 MB, pp. 110-144)
author: Ling-Wei Kung - Direct Introductions into the Three Embodiments, Supreme Key-Instructions of the Dwags po Bka’ brgyud Tradition (458 kb, pp. 145-177)
author: Martina Draszczyk - The Signature of Recipes: Authorship, Intertextuality, and the Epistemic Genre of Tibetan Formulas (670 kb, pp. 178-220)
author: Barbara Gerke - Compte-rendu de Matthew Akester: Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo’s Guide to Central Tibet (162 kb, pp. 221-228)
author: Guntram Hazod - Compte-rendu de Daniel A. Hirshberg: Remembering the Lotus-Born. Padmasambhava in the History of Tibet’s Golden Age (118 kb, pp. 229-232)
author: Manuel Lopez - Compte-rendu de Anne Burchardi: Catalogue of Tibetan Mandalas and Other Images (176 kb, pp. 233-236)
author: Amy Heller
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
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- Cover, contents (124 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Studying the Tibetan Performing Arts: A Bibliographic Introduction (1986-2017) (444 kb, pp. 5–54)
author: Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy - Regulating the Performing Arts: Buddhist Canon Law on the Performance and Consumption of Music in Tibet (363 kb, pp. 55-91)
author: Cuilan Liu - Listening with the Gods: Offering, Beauty and Being in Tibetan Ritual Music (155 kb, pp. 92-102)
author: Michael Monhart - Looking Back at Tibetan Performing Arts Research by Tibetans in the People’s Republic of China: Advocating for an Anthropological Approach (315 kb, pp. 103-125)
author: Sangye Dondhup - Lyrics Matter: Reconsidering Agency in the Discourses and Practices of Tibetan Pop Music among Tibetan Refugees (324 kb, pp. 126-152)
author: Tatsuya Yamamoto - Lineage in the Digital Age: Didactic Practices of the Nepal Tibetan Lhamo Association and Tibet University Arts Department Tibetan Opera Class (834 kb, pp. 153-178)
author: Kati Fitzgerald - The Art of the Tibetan Actor: A lce lha mo in the gaze of Western Performance Theories (1.2 MB, pp. 179-215)
author: Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy - Notes on Contributors (94 kb, pp. 216-217)
Number 38, Février 2017 - The Tulku (sprul sku) Institution in Tibetan Buddhism
Number 31, Février 2015 - Papers for Elliot Sperling
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- Cover, contents (193 kb, pp. 1-5)
- Shenrab’s Ancestors and Family Members: Where do they come from? (397 kb, pp. 1-23)
author: Kalsang Gurung - Rnying ma and Gsar ma: First Appearances of the Terms during the Ealry Phyi dar (Later Spread of the Doctrine) (393 kb, pp. 25-46)
author: Kadri Raudsepp - Biographical Sources for Researching the Life of Ngor chen Kun dga’ bzang po (1382-1456) (778 kb, pp. 47-91)
author: Jörg Heimbel - Doxography and philosophy: the usage and significance of school denominations in Red mda’ ba gzhon nu blo gros’ Ornament of the Proofs of Consciousness (475 kb, pp. 93-119)
author: Pierre-Julien Harter - Gorampa Sonam Senge on the Refutation of the Four Extremes (340 kb, pp. 121-137)
author: Constance Kassor - Instructions on the View (lta khrid) of the Two Truths: Prajñāraśmi's (1518-1584) Bden gnyis gsal ba’i sgron me (1518-1584) (893 kb, pp. 139-213)
author: Marc-Henri Deroche - An Entrance to the Practice Lineage as exemplified in Kaḥ thog Dge rtse Mahāpaṇḍita's Commentary on Sa skya Paṇḍita's Sdom gsum rab dbye (516 kb, pp. 215-242)
author: Tomoko Makidono - Nothing to Teach: Patrul’s Peculiar Preaching on Water, Boats and Bodies (573 kb, pp. 243-277)
author: Joshua Schapiro - Kha gya'i sgar rnying dgon gyi lo rgyus dang da lta'i gnas tshul rob tsam gleng ba (438 kb, pp. 279-299)
author: 'Brug mo dkar - Sommaire des précédents numéros (356 kb, pp. 301-311)
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
