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
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
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