Patrons and Priests in Amdo Tibet 1791-1911
A review of Between Patron and Priest: Amdo Tibet under Qing Rule, 1791-1911, by Max Gordon Oidtmann. This is an ambitious dissertation. The study of...
View ArticleBuddhism and Development in Ladakh, Northwest India
A review of Keeping the faith: an investigation into the ways that Tibetan Buddhist ethics and practice inform and direct development activity in Ladakh, North-West...
View ArticleLearning to be Tibetan (in China)
A review of Learning to be Ethnic: The Case of Tibetans in Minzu University, by Yang Miaoyan. Since establishing the People’s Republic of China (PRC)...
View ArticleSherpa Perceptions of Climate Change in Nepal
A review of Sherpa Perceptions of Climate Change and Institutional Responses in the Everest Region of Nepal, by Pasang Yangjee Sherpa. Pasang Yangjee Sherpa’s dissertation...
View ArticleWestern Explorers in Tibet
A review of Jin xiandai zai Anduo (Amdo) de Xifang ren ji qi lüxing shuxie (Amdo in the Eyes of the Yellow Hair: A Study...
View ArticlePreparatory Programs and Preferential Education Policies in Northwest China
A review of Education as Tautology: Disparities, Preferential Policy Measures and Preparatory Programs in Northwest China, by Naomi C.F. Yamada. In recent years, escalating ethnic...
View ArticleGender and Higher Education in Contemporary Bhutan
A review of “Girls Should Come Up”: Gender and Schooling in Contemporary Bhutan, by Dolma Choden Roder. Dolma Choden Roder’s dissertation provides a fascinating glimpse...
View ArticleDisputed Indo-Tibetan Borderlands
A review of Imagined Places: Politics and Narratives in a Disputed Indo-Tibetan Borderland, by Swargajyoti Gohain. Swargajyoti Gohain’s Imagined Places: Politics and Narratives in a...
View ArticleGansu-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 geography and cultural settings of one...
View ArticleMongolian 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 Frontier is a sociological study...
View ArticleState 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 exciting addition...
View ArticleTibetan 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 Contemporary China, by...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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, Bell begins by...
View ArticleLibrary 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 Archives (LTWA) in Dharamshala,...
View ArticleThe 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 Buddhist cultures, key texts were...
View ArticleDHAsia 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 East, South, Southeast, and Inner/Central...
View ArticleA 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 inherently characteristic of the...
View ArticleLegitimation 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. Encompassing intellectual...
View ArticleA 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...
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