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Tibetan and Himalayan Studies

Religious Studies

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...
Tibetan/Himalayan

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 Michelle Janet Sorensen. Encomp...
Talking Shop

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 being inherentl...
Asian Archaeology

DHAsia 2017 Call for Proposals

DHAsia, a pioneering Digital Humanities initiative at Stanford University, is seeking proposals for its 2017 short-term residency program focused on E...
Fresh from the Archives

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 ma...
Fresh from the Archives

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 and...
Religious Studies

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 his introduction,...
Tibetan/Himalayan

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 the traditional Buddhist model of...
Tibetan/Himalayan

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 Monasticism in Contemporar...
China

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 dissertation is an exc...
Inner/Central Asia

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. Ethniciz...
Talking Shop

Gansu-Qinghai’s Social Landscape

Picturing Gansu-Qinghai’s Social Landscape: A Brief Historical Retrospective Based on Recent Chinese Sources This paper explores the diverse human geo...
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