A Tibetan Ritual Master’s Objects of Power
A review of Substance and Sense: Objects of Power in the Life, Writings, and Legacy of the Tibetan Ritual Master Sog bzlog pa Blo gros…
A review of Substance and Sense: Objects of Power in the Life, Writings, and Legacy of the Tibetan Ritual Master Sog bzlog pa Blo gros…
A review of Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition, by Michelle Janet Sorensen. Encompassing intellectual…
A Narrator-centered Approach to History: Oral Sources in Amdo (Qinghai, PRC) This essay discusses some of the challenges that, despite being inherently characteristic of the…
DHAsia, a pioneering Digital Humanities initiative at Stanford University, is seeking proposals for its 2017 short-term residency program focused on East, South, Southeast, and Inner/Central…
A review of the National Library and Archives of Bhutan (འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དཔེ་མཛོད་དང་ཡིག་རིགས་གཏན་འཇོག་ཁང་།) in Thimphu, Bhutan. In Bhutan, as with many Himalayan Buddhist cultures, key texts were…
A review of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (བོད་ཀྱི་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་།) (Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India). The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA) in Dharamshala,…
A review of Nechung: The Ritual History and Institutionalization of a Tibetan Buddhist Protector Deity, by Christopher Paul Bell. In his introduction, Bell begins by…
Review of Portrait of a Landscape: Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art and Culture, by Eric Huntington. In the traditional Buddhist model of…
A review of Seeing Beyond the State? The Negotiation of Moral Boundaries in the Revival and Development of Tibetan Buddhist Monasticism in Contemporary China, by…
A review of Qinghai Across the Frontier: State- and Nation-Building under the Ma Family, 1911-1949, by William Brent Haas. This dissertation is an exciting addition…