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
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 (192 kb, pp. 1-4)
- Introduction — For A Critical History of the Northern Treasures (261 kb, pp. 5-21)
author: Stéphane Arguillère - Introduction to the Contents of this Special Issue (164 kb, pp. 22-28)
author: Jay Valentine - The rDo rje in the Details: A Note on sNa nam rDo rje bdud ‘joms (fl. eighth century) and His Role in Bringing Padmasambhava to Tibet (307 kb, pp. 29-50)
author: Elizabeth Angowski - The Longevity Practice of Vajrakīla Revealed by Rig 'dzin rGod ldem can: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the rDo rje phur pa'i tshe bsgrub (588 kb, pp. 51-90)
author: Kanako Shinga - The Life and Identity of mNga' ris Paṇ chen Padma dbang rgyal (1487-1542) – the Outstanding Master from Mustang, the “Ordinary Bodily Being” (1.3 MB, pp. 91-131)
author: Alexandra Sukhanova - The Heart Drops of Samantabhadra (Kun bzang snying tig) as revealed by mNga’ris paṇ chen (Padma dbang rgyal, 1487–1542) (387 kb, pp. 132-163)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - Tsi’u dmar po: How a Northern Treasure God Became Ecumenical (548 kb, pp. 164-189)
author: Christopher Bell - Yamāntaka’s Wrathful Magic: An Instance of the Ritual Legacy of gNubs chen Sangs rgyas ye shes on the Byang gter Tradition via the Figure of rGya Zhang khrom (317 kb, pp. 190-215)
author: Dylan Esler - An Introduction to The Chariot of Marvels: Northern Treasure Master Padma 'phrin las's Memoir of a Journey to Byang Ngam ring in 1690 (330 kb, pp. 216-232)
author: Jay Valentine - A History of the dGongs pa zang thal practice manuals (657 kb, pp. 233-298)
author: Stéphane Arguillère - Byang gter Bibliography (151 kb, pp. 299-305)
author: Jay Valentine & Stéphane Arguillère
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
- Full text (3.2 MB)
- Cover, contents (92 kb, pp. i-iv)
- Introduction (115 kb, pp. 5-12)
author: Lucia Galli & Peter Schwieger - The Degraded Emperor: Theoretical Reflections on the Upstaging of a Bodhisattva King (389 kb, pp. 13-66)
author: Lewis Doney - The Invention of a Tibetan Lama General: a Biographical Account of Bla ma dkar po (1835–1895) (231 kb, pp. 67-92)
author: Lobsang Yongdan - Aspects of Social Status in the Biography of Doring Paṇḍita (263 kb, pp. 93-121)
author: Franz Xaver Erhard - All the Life We Cannot See: New-Historicist Approach to a Modern Tibetan Novel (240 kb, pp. 122-148)
author: Lucia Galli - The Tibetan Novel as Social History: Reflections on Trashi Palden’s Phal pa’i khyim tshang gi skyid sdug (323 kb, pp. 149-191)
author: Charles Ramble - Some Preliminary Reflections on the Boundary between Man and Animal in Pre-Modern Tibetan Society (123 kb, pp. 192-203)
author: Peter Schwieger - Horse and Social Status or How to Assess the Quality of a Horse (739 kb, pp. 204-232)
author: Petra Maurer - The Social Life of Excellent Horses (gyi ling): a Textual and Ethnographic Exploration (664 kb, pp. 233-257)
author: Yancen Diemberger and Hildegard Diemberger - May the Curd of g.yang Mature: a 14th-Century Allegory for the Domestication of Sheep (320 kb, pp. 258-270)
author: Alexander K. Smith - Some Preliminary Remarks on Human and Animal Materia Medica in Tibetan Medicine (355 kb, pp. 271-308)
author: Olaf Czaja
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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
Number 38, Février 2017 - The Tulku (sprul sku) Institution in Tibetan Buddhism
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- 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 (139 kb, pp. 1-4)
- Between History and Biography: Notes on Zhi byed ri pa's Illuminating Lamp of Sun and Moon Beams, a Fourteenth-Century Biographical State of the Field (397 kb, pp. 5-41)
author: Andrew Quintman - Marriage, Kinship, and Inheritance in Zhi byed ri pas Account of Mi la ras pa's Early Life (172 kb, pp. 43-49)
author: Geoff Childs and Andrew Quintman - Clapping hands in sKyid grong? Logical and contextual aspects of a famous debate narrative (1.6 MB, pp. 51-102)
author: Pascale Hugon - A note on the history and future of the 'Wylie' system (131 kb, pp. 103-105)
author: Nathan W. Hill - A propos du terme 'riz' et de l'hypothèse du groupe dialectal de Sems-kyi-nyila en tibétain du Khams (225 kb, pp. 107-115)
author: Hiroyuki Suzuki - 'Light' on the Human Body The Coarse Physical Body and its Functions in the Aural Transmission from Zhang zhung on the Six Lamps (836 kb, pp. 117-168)
author: Henk Blezer - The records of Tshul khrims mchog rgyal on the Black Phur pa cycle of the Tibetan Bon pos (430kb, pp. 169-202)
author: J.F. Marc des Jardins - Edition critique des instructions de Bru rGyal ba g.yung drung sur la pratique de la Claire-Lumière ('od gsal) selon le cycle du Phyag khrid du Zhang zhung snyan rgyud (606 kb, pp. 203-234)
author: Jean-Luc Achard
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
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- Cover, contents (172 kb, pp. 1-3)
- Préface (130 kb, pp. iii)
author: Françoise Pommaret - How Samten came to Europe (130 kb, pp. 1-6)
author: David Snellgrove - "The Messed Up Books"(Pecha trok wa la). A personal recollection of Samten G. Karmay and the O rgyan chos gling catalogue (Bhutan) (131 kb, pp. 7-12)
author: Françoise Pommaret - Veil of Kashmir -- Poetry of Travel and Travail in Zhangzhungpa's 15th-Century Kavya Reworking of the Biography of the Great Translator Rinchen Zangpo (958-1055 CE) (648 kb, pp. 13-56)
author: Dan Martin - From Red Tally to Yellow Paper -- The official introduction of paper in Tibetan administration in 744/745 (288 kb, pp. 57-70)
author: Helga Uebach - A propos de l'usage des termes "nyin" et "srib" dans le mDo smad chos 'byung (205 kb, pp. 71-80)
author: Anne Chayet - Spelling Mistakes, Philology, and feminist Criticism: Women and Boys in Tibetan Medicine (329 kb, pp. 81-98)
author: Janet Gyatso - A preliminary note to the Gyarong color terms (315 kb, pp. 99-106)
author: Yasuhiko Nagano - Observations on an 11th century Tibetan inscription on a statue of Avalokitésvara (444 kb, pp. 107-116)
author: Amy Heller - Au-delà du débat linguistique : comment définir la littérature tibétaine d'expression chinoise? "Spécificités nationales" et "spécificités regionales" (687 kb, pp. 117-156)
author: Lara Maconi - sMar khams 'bom rnam snang ngam/ lha'dus rnam snang gi skor la cung zad gleng ba (171 kb, pp. 157-195)
author: Tashi Tsering
Number 11, Juin 2006 - The sGang steng-b rNying ma'i rGyud 'bum manuscript from Bhutan
- Full text (595 kb)
- Cover, contents (81 kb, pp. 1-3)
- De l'utilité de l'herméneutique des Tantra bouddhiques à propos d'un exposé de l'appareil des "Sept Ornements" par un doxologue érudit dge lugs pa dBal mang dKon mchog rgyal mtshan (1764-1863) (507 kb, pp. 4-60)
author: Pierre Arènes - Bon Bibliography : An Annotated List of Recent Publications (164 kb, pp. 61-77)
author: Dan Martin - Contribution aux nombrables de la tradition Bon po : L'Appendice de bsTan 'dzin Rin chen rgyal mtshan à la Sphère de Cristal des Dieux et des Démons de Shar rdza rin po che (523 kb, pp. 78-146)
author: Jean-Luc Achard - Journal Table of Contents (76 kb, pp. )