Publications
Lara Braitstein
2018, ed., Boundless Wisdom: a Mahamudra Practice Manual. Author: Shamar Rinpoche. General editor: Tina Draszczyk. Lexington: Bird of Paradise Press.
2017, Les Chants Adamantins: étude, traduction, et edition critique. trans. Audrey Desserières. La Remuée (France): Rabsel Éditions. [translation of The Adamantine Songs, 2014-a]
2015, Co-editor and co-translator with Thea Howard, Julia Stenzel, Pamela Gayle White. The King of Prayers: A Commentary on The Noble King of Prayers of Excellent Conduct. Author: Shamar Rinpoche. Lexington: Bird of Paradise Press.
2014-a, The Adamantine Songs (Vajragīti), by Saraha; Study, Translation, and Tibetan Critical Edition. Columbia University Press, American Institute of Buddhist Studies series
2014-b, The Path to Awakening: a Commentary on Ja Chekawa Yeshe Dorje’s Seven Points of Mind Training. (editor and translator). American edition. Author: Shamar Rinpoche. Harrison, New York: Delphinium Books.
Marc des Jardins
2024, Book review: Kværne, Per, Dan Martin, Joanna Bialek, and Charles Ramble. Drenpa’s Proclamation: The Rise and Decline of the Bön Religion in Tibet. Vajra Academic, Vol. III. Kathmandu, Nepal: Vajra Books, 2023, 656 pages. ISBN: 978-9937-733-30-4. Journal Asiatique, no. 1.
2023, The Everlasting Bon traditions of Sutra, Tantra and Great Perfection. J.F. Marc des Jardins (translation and introduction). Wisdom Publications. The Tibetan Classics Library.
2021, “A Tibetan Bonpo priest’s grimoire: an example of a collection of magical recipes for daily use by a minority religion specialists” Manuscript Culture. Vol. 9. Centre Of the Study of Manuscript Cultures. Universität Hamburg, pp.19–38.
2019-a, “About the Zhangzhung master Stag la me‘bar, was he a Tājik?” in Ancient Civilisation of Tibetan Plateau: History and Geography. 162-186. Beijing.
2019-b, The Treatises on Sutra, Tantra and Mind According to the Bon School. Translation and introductory essay. Boston: Wisdom Publications. The Tibetan Classics Library.
2018, “About the Zhangzhung master Stag la me‘bar, was he a Tājik?” in Ancient Civilisation of Tibetan Plateau: History and Geography. 162-186. Beijing, 2018.
2017-a, La religion tibétaine du Bön. Montréal, Paris: Éditions Namparaz.
2017-b, “The heritage of a Bonpo master: preliminary examinations of Tshul khrims mchog rgyal’s records of empowerments and masters.” The Journal of the International Association for Bon Research. Vol. 2. Charles Ramble and J.F. Marc des Jardins (editors).
2017-c, Book review: Tsering Thar, Nangshig for revue EMSCT #48.
2013-a, “Notes on the history of Bon and the Ye shes monastery in Nyag rong, Sichuan,” The Journal of the International Association for Bon Research, no. 1, Décembre 2013, pp. 55-76.
2013-b, The Journal of the International Association for Bon Research, no. 1, December 2013. As editor in chief.
2012, “The records of Tshul khrims mchog rgyal on the Black Phur pa cycle of the Tibetan Bon pos”, Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, no. 23, Avril 2012, pp. 169-203.
2011, Le sūtra de la Mahāmāyūrī : rituel et politique dans la Chine des Tang (618-907). (The sūtra of Mahāmāyūrī : ritual et politics in Tang China (618-907) Presses de l’Université Laval (PUL), Québec, Canada.
2010-a, “Tibetan Religions in British Columbia,” in Asian Religions in British Columbia, Daniel Overmyer and Larry de Vries, (Eds.) Vancouver: The University of British Columbia Press.
2010-b, “Bon Institutions in Contemporary Tibetan Territories and the Dynamics of Religious Authority”, East and West, volume 59: 1-4, dedicated to the memory of Professor D. L. Snellgrove.
2009, “Rites of the Deity Tamdrin (Rta mgrin) in Contemporary Bön: Transforming Poison and Eliminating Noxious Spirits with Burning Stones.” Tibetan rituals, José Cabezon, (Ed.) Oxford University Publications, Chap. 8: 187-205.
Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy
2023, "Offensive de charme en Himalaya: La mobilisation du bouddhisme et de l’éducation dans le soft power chinois au Népal", in Frédéric Lasserre, Éric Mottet et Barthélémy Courmont (éds.), Le soft power en Asie : Nouvelles formes de pouvoir et d'influence ? Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, pp. 91-103.
2023, " ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’: An Unfortunate Conceptual Blind Spot for the Tibetans", Ye-shes, A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts and Humanities, Vol. 3 no. 1.
2023, "Lost—and Added—in Translation Between India and Tibet: Theories about Drama in Tibetan Buddhist Epistemology”, in Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Jue Liang & William A. McGrath (eds.), Histories of Tibet: Essays in Honor of Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp. Boston: Shambhala Publications, pp. 95-108.
2023, 伊莎贝拉-亨利安·多茜者，桑吉东智译，《 探索阿吉拉姆演员的声乐艺术:评赏丹增贡布的展 》-- Yishabeila Hengli’an-Duoxi zhe, Sangji Dongzhi yi, “Tansuo a ji la mu yanyuan de shengyue yishu: Ping shang Danzeng Gongbu de zhan“, 中国藏学 Zhongguo zangxue, 2023-2, pp. 116-129, 218.
2023, “Performing Tibetan Opera as khral in the first half of the 20thcentury: In principle a ‘tax’, in experience a pervasive obligation”, in Charles Ramble, Jeannine Bischoff, Pieter Schwieger & Alice Travers (eds.), Taxation in Tibetan Societies: Rules, Practices and Discourses. Leiden, Brill, pp. 211-253. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004529465_009
2023, (avec Katia Buffetrille), « Mireille Helffer (1928-2023): Une vie consacrée à l'étude de la musique et du rituel », Cahiers d'ethnomusicologie, Vol. 36, pp. 260-267. Egalement publié sur le sitede la SFEMT (Société française d'étude du monde tibétain).
2022, (with Katia Buffetrille) - In Memoriam - "Mireille Helffer: a life devoted to music and ritual”, European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, Vol. 59, pp. 9-15.
2022, “sKyor mo lung pa: Notes on the History of an Outstanding Troupe that Reshaped Tibetan Theatre in the First Half of the 20thCentury”, in Christoph Cüppers, Peter Schwieger & Karl-Heinz Everding (eds.), A Life in Tibetan Studies: Festschrift for Dieter Schuh at the Occasion of his 80th birthday. Lumbini: Lumbini International research Institute, pp. 285-312.
2022, “Marie-Soleil, une amie chère qui me manque tout autant qu’elle m’habite", in Gaëlle Ducarme, Marie Fierens, Bruno Frère, Florence Le Cam & Lassané Yaméogo (eds.), Les journalistes et leurs médias en Afrique. Pensées mêlées pour Marie-Soleil Frère. Bruxelles : Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, pp. 28-29.
2020, "A lasting legacy for Tibetan performing arts today: On the monks of rMe ru and Kun bde gling performing drama in Lhasa in the first half of the 20th Century", in Jeannine Bischoff, Petra Maurer and Charles Ramble, eds., On the Day of a Month of the Fire Bird Year: Festschrift for Peter Schwieger on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Lumbini: LIRI / Lumbini International Research Institute, pp. 393-414 et pp. 980-983.
2019, "Quelques voies de renouveau pour le théâtre traditionnel tibétain depuis les années 2000", L'Ethnographie, N°1, Dossier "Renouveau et revitalisation des arts scéniques asiatiques: Discours, pratiques et savoir-faire", sous la direction de Nathalie Gauthard, Septembre 2019.
2018, 伊莎贝拉-亨利安·多茜者，桑吉东智译，《温巴顿…：浅析西藏中部地区阿吉拉姆的开场戏表演 》-- Yishabeila Hengli’an-Duoxi zhe, Sangji Dongzhi yi, “Wenba dun…: qianxi xizang zhongbu diqu aji lamu de kaichangxi biaoyan“, 中国藏学 Zhongguo zangxue, 2018-1, pp. 146-156.
2017, Le théâtre ache lhamo: Jeux et enjeux d’une tradition tibétaine. Louvain/Bruxelles/Kyoto: Peeters/Mélanges chinois et bouddhiques, Volume 33. Cet ouvrage a reçu le "Prix Henri Lavachery" de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques, qui couronne un travail d’ethnologie, sous forme d’un écrit ou d’un film, réalisé dans la 11e période quinquennale (2013-2017).
2017, (avec Katia Buffetrille éds.), Musique et épopée en Haute-Asie : Mélanges offerts à Mireille Helffer à l’occasion de son 90e anniversaire. Paris : L’Asiathèque, 2017. Cet ouvrage a reçu le prix « Coup de cœur – Musique du monde » de l’Académie Charles Cros.
2017, (direction du numéro) "Studies in The Tibetan Performing Arts", Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, vol. 40, juillet 2017.
2017, (Henrion-Dourcy I. et Katia Buffetrille) “Mireille Helffer: Musique et rituel”, in Katia Buffetrille et Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy (éds.), Musique et épopée en Haute-Asie : Mélanges offerts à Mireille Helffer à l’occasion de son 90e anniversaire. Paris : l’Asiathèque, pp. 19-33.
2017, “La danse de Gesar au monastère de Dzogchen (Kham) : Notes préliminaires”, in Katia Buffetrille et Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy (éds.), Musique et épopée en Haute-Asie : Mélanges offerts à Mireille Helffer à l’occasion de son 90e anniversaire. Paris : l’Asiathèque, pp. 191-214.
2017, "Studying the Tibetan Performing Arts: A Bibliographic Introduction (1986-2017)", Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, vol. 40, juillet 2017, pp. 5-54.
2017, "The Art of the Tibetan Actor: A lce lha mo in the Gaze of Western Performance Theories", Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, vol. 40, juillet 2017, pp. 179-215.
2016, "Tibet", in John Stone, Rutledge M. Dennis, Polly S. Rizova, Anthony D. Smith & Xiaoshuo Hou (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. London: Blackwell, pp. 2052-2055.
2016, "Tibetan Radio and Television", in Jeremy Murray & Kathleen Nadeau, eds., Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, pp. 198-202.
Thupten Jinba
2014, (avec Jas Elsner) Songs of Spiritual Experience. Tibetan Buddhist Poems of Insight and Awakening. Boston: Shambhala.
Chos kyi snang ba gsar pa (A New Light on Dharma, a first ever introduction to Buddhism in vernacular Tibetan)
bod skad kyi brda sprod gsar bsgrigs smra sgo’i lde mig (A Modern Tibetan Grammar, Key Opening the Door of Speech).
John Leavitt
(sous presse), “The Story of Goriya: Space and Sentiment in a Himalayan Myth”. In Thomas Thornton, Guy Lanoue, et John Leavitt (éd.), Asdiwal, Structuralism, and the Study of Myth. Volume sous préparation pour soumission à la University of Washington Press.
The Art of Surrender. In Anne de Sales and Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, eds., Encounters with the Invisible: Revisiting Spirit Possession in the Himalayas. Londres: Routledge. Accepted.
(sous presse), Three Birds, the Emotions, and the Seasons in the Central Himalayas. In Scott Simon and Frédéric Laugrand (éd.), Towards an Anthropology of Birds. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
2023, Repenser et re-sentir. Équipement sensoriel et élaboration sociale. In Simona Bealcovschi, ed., Espaces, sensorialité, dissonance, pp. 21-32. Montreal: editions@anthro.
2022, A Trope of Time: Twilight Swings across the Central Himalayas. In Marko Živković, Jamin Pelkey et James W. Fernandez, eds., Tropological Thought and Action: Essays on the Poetics of Imagination, pp. 44-66. Oxford: Berghahn.
2021, Compte-rendu de Katia Buffetrille et Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy (éd.), Musique et épopée en Haute-Asie. Anthropologica 63(1), 2021, 5 pages. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/anthro/2021-v63-n1-anthro06140/1078614ar.pdf
2020, Compte-rendu de Marine Carrin, Le parler des dieux. Le discours rituel santal entre l'oral et l'écrit. Anthropologica 62: 209-210.
2019, Translation as Philology as Love. In Adam Głaz, ed., Languages-Cultures-Worldviews: Focus on Translation, pp. 83-108. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.
2018, « Transformations du corps et du chronotope dans la "possession" himalayenne ». In Simona Bealcovschi, éd., Le corps et le lieu, p. 125-140. Montréal: Département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal.
2017, Review of Aditya Malik, Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine Embodiment. Asian Ethnology 26: 426-429.
2017, « Inspiration et enchantement dans deux traditions de langue indo-européenne ». Cahiers de Littérature Orale 81: 113-133. One of the two traditions is that of Central Himalayan oral poetry.
2016, “Authoritative Modes of Speech in a Central Himalayan Ritual”. Oral Tradition 30: 195-210.
Chiara Letizia
2024, ‘Buddhist Awareness as a Means to Unveil the Past and Emancipate the Future: The Buddhist Awareness Camps Project in post-1990 Nepal’, in de Chiara Neri and Francesco Sferra (eds), Teaching Awareness in the Buddhist Tradition. Essays in Honour of Professor Corrado Pensa. Sheffield: Equinox
2023, Sacrifice, violence, resistance: comments on Lecomte-Tilouine’s handling of a polyvalent practice and symbol’. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 61 URL : http://journals.openedition.org/ebhr/1861
2023, ‘“Not in the name of dharma” : A judgement of the Supreme Court of Nepal on mass sacrifices at the Gadhimali mela’, in D. Berti and A. Good (eds), Animal Sacrifice on Trial : Cases from South Asia,https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003284949
2021, ‘Religion and Secularism in Contemporary Nepal’, in Knut Jacobsen (ed), Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions, pp. 335-354. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
2020, (ed). Un regard sur les religions du Népal contemporain. Montréal :Département de Sciences des religions, UQAM.
2019, (ed. with A. Drocco, L. Galli, G. Orofino, C. Simioli). Wind Horses. Tibetan, Himalayan And Mongolian Studies. Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli « L’Orientale ».
2019, 'Superstizione, tradizione e nuovi diritti. Riflessioni sul verdetto della Corte Suprema del Nepal sui sacrifici cruenti alla festa di Gadhimai’, in A. Drocco, L. Galli, C. Letizia G. Orofino, and C. Simioli (eds), Wind Horses. Tibetan, Himalayan And Mongolian Studies, pp.193-217. Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale.
2019, (with D.N. Gellner). ‘Hinduism in the secular republic of Nepal’, in Torkel Brekke (ed), Modern Hinduism, pp.275-304. Oxford University Press.
2018, Demoting Visnu: Ritual, Politics, and the Unraveling of Nepal’s Hindu Monarchy by Anne T. Mocko. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, 256 pp. The Journal of Asia Studies, 77/4: 1123-1124.
2017, ‘Secularism and statebuilding in Nepal’, in Deepak Thapa and Alexander Ramsbotham (eds), “Building inclusive peace in Nepal”, Accord : An International Review of Peace Initiatives, (26), 109–111. http://www.c-r.org/downloads/SecularismAndStatebuildingInNepal.pdf.
2016, (ed, with D.N. Gellner and S. Hausner). Religion, Secularism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal. New Delhi : Oxford University Press.
2016, The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India by Peter van der Veer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, 296 pp. American Anthropologist 118/2:459 – 460.
2016, ‘Buddha was Tharu?’ , in J. Samuels, M. Rowe and J. McDaniel (eds), Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia, pp.88–91. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press.
2016, ‘Ideas of Secularism in Contemporary Nepal’, in D.N. Gellner, S. Hausner and C. Letizia (eds), Religion, Secularism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal, pp.35–75. New Delhi : Oxford University Press.
2016, (with D.N. Gellner). ‘Introduction : Religion and Identities in Post-Panchayat Nepal’, in D.N. Gellner, S. Hausner and C. Letizia (eds), Religion, Secularism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal, pp. 1–32. New Delhi : Oxford University Press.
2016, ‘National Gods at the Court. Secularism and the Judiciary in Nepal’, in D. Berti, G. Tarabout and R. Voix (eds), Filing Religion : State, Hinduism, and Courts of Law, pp. 34–68. New Delhi : Oxford University Press.
2015, ‘The 'Secularism Case' : Prosecution of a Hindu Activist before a Quasi-judicial Authority in the Nepal Tarai’, in D. Berti and D. Bordia (eds), Regimes of Legality. Ethnography of Criminal Cases in South Asia, pp. 129–170. New Delhi : Oxford University Press.
2015, From Monarchy to Republic: Essays in Changing Nepal by Gérard Toffin. Kathmandu: Vajra Books. 2013, 280 pp. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 45: 102–106.