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…
Legitimation and Innovation in Tibetan Chöd
A review of Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition, by…
A Narrator-centered Approach to History
A Narrator-centered Approach to History: Oral Sources in Amdo (Qinghai, PRC) This essay discusses some of the challenges that, despite…
The National Library and Archives of Bhutan
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…
Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (India)
A review of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (བོད་ཀྱི་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་།) (Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India). The Library of Tibetan Works…
The Ritual History of a Tibetan Buddhist Protector Deity
A review of Nechung: The Ritual History and Institutionalization of a Tibetan Buddhist Protector Deity, by Christopher Paul Bell. In…
The Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art and Culture
Review of Portrait of a Landscape: Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art and Culture, by Eric Huntington. In…
Tibetan Monastic Revival in Amdo
A review of Seeing Beyond the State? The Negotiation of Moral Boundaries in the Revival and Development of Tibetan Buddhist…
State and Nation in the Qinghai Frontier, 1911-1949
A review of Qinghai Across the Frontier: State- and Nation-Building under the Ma Family, 1911-1949, by William Brent Haas. This…
Mongolian Identities in the Qing-Republican Transition
A review of Ethnicizing the Frontier: Imperial Transformation and Ethnic Confrontations in China-Inner Mongolia, 1890s-1930s, by Liping Wang. Ethnicizing the…