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The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 15 to 17 Vol. 1
Dorje, Gyurme, trans. The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Books 15 to 17: The Essential Tantras of Mahayoga. Vol. 1. By Chöying Tobden Dorje (chos dbyings stobs ldan rdo rje). Boulder, CO: Snow Lion Publications, 2016.
Books · Translations
The Sole Essence of Clear Light
Lama Chönam and Sangye Khandro, trans. The Sole Essence of Clear Light: Tröma Tögal Practice, The Terma Revelations of Heruka Dudjom Lingpa and Commentary by One of His Foremost Disciples, Tülku Drimed Ödzer. Light of Berotsana Translation Group. Boulder, CO: Kama Terma Publications, 2011.
Books · Translations
The Kālacakratantra: The Chapter on the Individual Together with the Vimalaprabhā
Wallace, Vesna A., trans. The Kālacakratantra: The Chapter on the Individual together with the Vimalaprabhā. Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences series. Translated from Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Mongolian. Tengyur Translation Initiative. New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University's Center for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House US, 2004.
Books · Translations
Esoteric Instructions
Harding, Sarah (Kalu Rinpoché Translation Group), trans. Esoteric Instructions: A Detailed Presentation of the Process of Meditation in Vajrayāna. Book Eight, Part Four of The Treasury of Knowledge. By Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Tayé ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha’ yas). Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2007.
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Featured Tibetan Publications
Tibetan Publications · Collection
Mkhas grub chen po byang chub brtson 'grus mchog gi gsung 'bum
byang chub brtson 'grus. mkhas grub chen po byang chub brtson 'grus mchog gi gsung 'bum. Kathmandu: Gam-po-pa Library, 2014. བྱང་ཆུབ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས། མཁས་གྲུབ་ཆེན་པོ་བྱང་ཆུབ་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་མཆོག་གི་གསུང་འབུམ། སྒམ་པོ་པ་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་། Jangchub Tsondru. Collected Writings of Jangchub Tsondru. Kathmandu: Gam-po-pa Library, 2014.
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Dge 'dun chos 'phel gyi gsung tsom vol. 1
dge 'dun chos 'phel. dge 'dun chos 'phel gyi gsung tsom (A Collection of Miscellaneous Writings by Gedun Chophel). deb dang po (Volume 1). Edited by tre hor gdong thog sprul sku bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan (T.G. Dhongthog). Bir: rdzong gsar bshad grwa (Dzongsar Institute), 1991.
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Shes bya kun la khyab pa'i gzhung lugs - stod cha (Rigpe Dorje)
'jam mgon kong sprul yon tan rgya mtsho. Shes bya kun la khyab pa'i gzhung lugs nyung ngu'i tshig gis rnam par 'grol ba legs bshad yongs 'du shes bya mtha' yas pa'i rgya mtsho. stod cha. Treasury of Knowledge. Volume 1. Kalimpong: Rigpe Dorje Institute, 2013.
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Mthing mu ni lha rdzong gnam lcags thog gi ngar sgra (stod cha)
zla ba grags pa, karma lha mo. mthing mu ni lha rdzong gnam lcags thog gi ngar sgra (stod cha). lanzhou: kan su'u mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2013.
ཟླ་བ་གྲགས་པ། ཀརྨ་ལྷ་མོ། མཐིང་མུ་ནི་ལྷ་རྫོང་གནམ་ལྕགས་ཐོག་གི་ངར་སྒྲ། (སྟོད་ཆ) ཀན་སུའུ་མི་རིགས་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཁང་།
Dawa Drakpa, Karma Lhamo. The Thunder Roar of Thing Muni Hladzong. Lanzhou: Gansu Ethnic Publishing House, 2013.Tibetan Publications · Collection
'jam mgon kong sprul gyi gsung 'bum rgya chen bka' yi mdzod
'jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas , 'jam mgon kong sprul gyi gsung 'bum rgya chen bka' yi mdzod, Lhasa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang,2012
འཇམ་མགོན་ཀོང་སྤྲུལ་བློ་གྲོས་མཐའ་ཡས་, འཇམ་མགོན་ཀོང་སྤྲུལ་གྱི་གསུང་འབུམ་རྒྱ་ཆེན་བཀའ་ཡི་མཛོད༎ , བོད་ལྗོངས་བོད་ཡིག་དཔེ་རྙིང་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཁང་
Jamgön Kongtrül Lodrö Thayé, Collected Works of Jamgön Kongtrul, Set of 20 Books + 1 dkar chag. Lhasa: Tibetan Classics Publishing House, 2012.Tibetan Publications · Collection
'ju mi pham bka' 'bum
'ju mi pham 'jam dbyangs rnam rgyal rgya mtsho. 'ju mi pham bka' 'bum. kaH thog rgyud sde bshad sgrub nor bu'i lhun pos bsgrigs. Chengdu: si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2012.
འཇུ་མི་ཕམ་འཇམ་དབྱངས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་རྒྱ་མཚོ།. འཇུ་མི་ཕམ་བཀའ་འབུམ།. ཀཿཐོག་རྒྱུད་སྡེ་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་ནོར་བུའི་ལྷུན་པོས་བསྒྲིགས། སི་ཁྲོན་མི་རིགས་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཁང་།
Tibetan Publications · Collection
Bka' gdams gsung 'bum phyogs bsgrigs bzhugs so
various other authors, bka' gdams gsung 'bum phyogs bsgrigs bzhugs sophyag bris gces btus phyogs sgrig, si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang
, བཀའ་གདམས་གསུང་འབུམ་ཕྱོགས་བསྒྲིགས་བཞུགས་སོ༎ཕྱག་བྲིས་གཅེས་བཏུས་ཕྱོགས་སྒྲིག, སི་ཁྲོན་མི་རིགས་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཁང་།
, Collected Writings of the Kadampa Tradition, Set of 120 Pechas + 3 dkar chagNewest Tibetan Additions
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Sgrub brgyud gong ma rnams kyi zhal gnams phyogs sgrigs nor bu'i bang mdzod
Various Authors. sgrub brgyud gong ma rnams kyi zhal gnams phyogs sgrigs nor bu'i bang mdzod སྒྲུབ་བརྒྱུད་གོང་མ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཞལ་གནམས་ཕྱོགས་སྒྲིགས་ནོར་བུའི་བང་མཛོད་. Frederick, MD: Drikung Kagyu Tibetan Meditation Center, nd.
Tibetan Publications · Volume
'bri gung bka' brgyud kyi chos sde che mo yang ri sgar dgon thub bstan sde bzhi rab rgyas gling gi dkar chag mdor bsdus dge'o
dkon mchog rgya mtshos དཀོན་མཆོག་རྒྱ་མཚོས་. 'bri gung bka' brgyud kyi chos sde che mo yang ri sgar dgon thub bstan sde bzhi rab rgyas gling gi dkar chag mdor bsdus dge'o འབྲི་གུང་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཆོས་སྡེ་ཆེ་མོ་ཡང་རི་སྒར་དགོན་ཐུབ་བསྟན་སྡེ་བཞི་རབ་རྒྱས་གླིང་གི་དཀར་ཆག་མདོར་བསྡུས་དགེའོ་. Lhasa: Bod ljongs mi dmangs dpe skrun khang བོད་ལྗོངས་མི་དམངས་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཁང་ Tibet People's Publishing House, 2004.
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Skyob pa 'jig rten gsum mgon gyi gsung mgur nges don snyan pa'i 'brug sgra
'bri gung skyob pa 'jig rten mgon po འབྲི་གུང་སྐྱོབ་པ་འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོ་. skyob pa 'jig rten gsum mgon gyi gsung mgur nges don snyan pa'i 'brug sgra སྐྱོབ་པ་འཇིག་རྟེན་གསུམ་མགོན་གྱི་གསུང་མགུར་ངེས་དོན་སྙན་པའི་འབྲུག་སྒྲ་.
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Phyag rgya chen po lnga ldan gyi sngon 'gro'i khrid yig bka' brgyud bla ma'i zhal lung ( Bod ljongs mi dmangs dpe skrun khang)
phyag rgya chen po lnga ldan gyi sngon 'gro'i khrid yig bka' brgyud bla ma'i zhal lung ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ལྔ་ལྡན་གྱི་སྔོན་འགྲོའི་ཁྲིད་ཡིག་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་ཞལ་ལུང་. Lhasa: Bod ljongs mi dmangs dpe skrun khang བོད་ལྗོངས་མི་དམངས་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཁང་ Tibet People's Publishing House, nd.
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Skyob pa 'jig rten mgon po'i rnam thar
'bri gung skyob pa 'jig rten mgon po འབྲི་གུང་སྐྱོབ་པ་འཇིག་རྟེན་མགོན་པོ་. 'bri gung skyob pa 'jig rten gsum mgon gyi rnam thar snying bsdus འབྲི་གུང་སྐྱོབ་པ་འཇིག་རྟེན་གསུམ་མགོན་གྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་སྙིང་བསྡུས་. Lhasa: Bod ljongs mi dmangs dpe skrun khang བོད་ལྗོངས་མི་དམངས་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཁང་ Tibet People's Publishing House, 2003.
Tibetan Publications · Volume
'bri gung grub dbang a mgon rin po che'i rnam thar
grub pa'i dbang phyug chen po a mgon གྲུབ་པའི་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཆེན་པོ་ཨ་མགོན་. grub pa'i dbang phyug chen po a mgon rdo rje 'chang gi rnam thar rags bsdus bka' brgyud bstan pa'i mdzes rgyan གྲུབ་པའི་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཆེན་པོ་ཨ་མགོན་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་གི་རྣམ་ཐར་རགས་བསྡུས་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་བསྟན་པའི་མཛེས་རྒྱན་. Lhasa: Bod ljongs mi dmangs dpe skrun khang བོད་ལྗོངས་མི་དམངས་དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཁང་ Tibet People's Publishing House, 2004.
Tibetan Publications · Volume
Dbang lung man ngag gi bka' slob dang bka' khrid gces btus dang po
Nyenpa, Sangyes. 7skyabs rje grub dbang sangs rgyas mnyan pa rin po ches bstsal ba'i dbang lung man ngag gi bka' khrid dang bka' slob gces btus dang po ༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་གྲུབ་དབང་སངས་རྒྱས་མཉན་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེས་བསྩལ་བའི་དབང་ལུང་མན་ངག་གི་བཀའ་ཁྲིད་དང་བཀའ་སློབ་གཅེས་བཏུས་དང་པོ་. Kathmandu: Ban chen legs bshad rgyun skyong khang བན་ཆེན་ལེགས་བཤད་རྒྱུན་སྐྱོང་ཁང་ Benchen Publications, 2019.
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7skyabs rje grub dbang sangs rgyas mnyan pa rin po che'i gsung rtsom gces btus pod phreng gnyis pa
Nyenpa, Sangyes. 7skyabs rje grub dbang sangs rgyas mnyan pa rin po che'i gsung rtsom gces btus pod phreng gnyis pa ༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་གྲུབ་དབང་སངས་རྒྱས་མཉན་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་གསུང་རྩོམ་གཅེས་བཏུས་པོད་ཕྲེང་གཉིས་པ་. Kathmandu: Ban chen legs bshad rgyun skyong khang བན་ཆེན་ལེགས་བཤད་རྒྱུན་སྐྱོང་ཁང་ Benchen Publications, 2019.
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Dpal rgyal dbang karma pa gsum pa rang byung rdo rje'i gsung gzhung chung gnyis kyi mchan 'grel kun btus
Karmapa, 3rd རང་བྱུང་རྡོ་རྗེ་. 7dpal rgyal dbang karma pa sku phreng gsum pa rang byung rdo rjes mdzad pa'i gzhung chung gnyis kyi mchan 'grel kun btus ༧དཔལ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་གསུམ་པ་རང་བྱུང་རྡོ་རྗེས་མཛད་པའི་གཞུང་ཆུང་གཉིས་ཀྱི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་ཀུན་བཏུས་. Kathmandu: Ban chen legs bshad rgyun skyong khang བན་ཆེན་ལེགས་བཤད་རྒྱུན་སྐྱོང་ཁང་ Benchen Publications, 2019.
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Sum rtags mu tig phreng mdzes
Tai Situpa, 8th ཆོས་ཀྱི་འབྱུང་གནས་. yul gangs can pa'i brda yang dag par sbyor ba'i bstan bcos kyi bye brag sum cu pa dang rtags kyi 'jug pa'i gzhung ge rnam par bshad pa mkhas pa'i mgul rgyan mu tig phreng mdzes ཡུལ་གངས་ཅན་པའི་བརྡ་ཡང་དག་པར་སྦྱོར་བའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་བྱེ་བྲག་སུམ་ཅུ་པ་དང་རྟགས་ཀྱི་འཇུག་པའི་གཞུང་གེ་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་མཁས་པའི་མགུལ་རྒྱན་མུ་ཏིག་ཕྲེང་མཛེས་. Delhi: Sherig Parkhang ཤེས་རིག་དཔར་ཁང་, 2005.
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Tshad ma rigs gzhung rgya mtsho las - Vol. 3
Karmapa, 7th ཆོས་གྲགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ and Thrangu Rinpoche ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་. karma pa chos grags rgya mtsho'i tshad ma rigs gzhung rgya mtsho las - rnam 'grel gyi 'grel pa zur bkol smad cha. ཀརྨ་པ་ཆོས་གྲགས་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་ཚད་མ་རིགས་གཞུང་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ལས་ - རྣམ་འགྲེལ་གྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཟུར་བཀོལ་སྨད་ཆ་. Varanasi: WA Na badzra bi dya dpe mdzod khang ཝཱ་ཎ་བཛྲ་བི་དྱཱ་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་ Vajra Vidya Institute Library, 2007.
Newest Dissertations
Dissertations · PhD diss.
A Study of the Wisdom Chapter (Prajñāpāramitā Pariccheda) of the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā of Prajñākaramati
Oldmeadow, Peter R. "A Study of the Wisdom Chapter (Prajñāpāramitā Pariccheda) of the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā of Prajñākaramati." PhD diss., Australian National University, 1994.
Dissertations · MA Theses
Entering 'the Unified Maṇḍala of All the Siddhas:' The Sādhana of Mahāmudrā and the Making of Vajrayāna Buddhist Subjects
Yonnetti, Eben Matthew. "Entering ‘the Unified Maṇḍala of All the Siddhas:’ The Sādhana of Mahāmudrā and the Making of Vajrayāna Buddhist Subjects." MA Thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2017.
Dissertations · PhD diss.
Buddha-Nature and Dao-Nature of Medieval China: A Comparison of the Concepts of Buddha-Nature and Dao-Nature of Medieval China
Chih-Mien Adrian Tseng. "A Comparison of the Concepts of Buddha-Nature and Dao-Nature of Medieval China." PhD diss., McMaster University, 2014. https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/15419/1/Chih-mien%20Adrian%20Tseng%27s%20dissertation%202014-07.pdf
Dissertations · PhD diss.
Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Santideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryavatara)
Harris, Stephen. Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Śāntideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryāvatāra). PhD diss., University of New Mexico, 2014.
Dissertations · PhD diss.
Buddhist Translation Procedures in Third-Century China - A Study of Dharmaraksa and his Translation Idiom
Boucher, Daniel. 1996. "Buddhist Translation Procedures in Third-Century China: A Study of Dharmarakṣa and His Translation Idiom."Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
Dissertations · PhD diss.
Gha rung pa lha'i rgyal mtshan as a Scholar and Defender of the Jo nang Tradition - A Study of His Lamp that Illuminates the Expanse of Reality with an Annotated Translation and Critical Edition of the Text
Duoji, Nyingcha. "Gha rung pa lha'i rgyal mtshan as a Scholar and Defender of the Jo nang Tradition: A Study of His Lamp that Illuminates the Expanse of Reality with an Annotated Translation and Critical Edition of the Text." PhD diss., Harvard University, 2014.
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"The Knot Tied with Space": Notes on a Previously Unidentified Stanza in Buddhist Literature and Its Citation
Apple, James B. ""The Knot Tied with Space": Notes on a Previously Unidentified Stanza in Buddhist Literature and Its Citation." Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies 17, (2016): 167–202.
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Khu lo tsā ba’s Treatise: Distinguishing the Svātantrika - *Prāsaṅgika Difference in Early Twelfth Century Tibet
Apple, James B. "Khu lo tsā ba’s Treatise: Distinguishing the Svātantrika/ *Prāsaṅgika Difference in Early Twelfth Century Tibet." Journal of Indian Philosophy 46, (2018): 935–981.
Articles · Chapters in a Book
Key Features of Dharmakīrti’s Apoha Theory
Dunne, John D. "Key Features of Dharmakīrti’s Apoha Theory." In Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism and Human Cognition, edited by Siderits Mark, Tillemans Tom, and Chakrabarti Arindam, 84-108. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
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T'ien-t'ai Chih'i's Concept of Threefold Buddha Nature-A Synergy of Reality, Wisdom, and Practice
Swanson, Paul L. "T'ien-t'ai Chih'i's Concept of Threefold Buddha Nature—A Synergy of Reality, Wisdom, and Practice." In Buddha Nature: A Festschrift in Honor of Minoru Kiyota, edited by Paul J. Griffiths and John P. Keenan, 171–80. Tokyo: Buddhist Books International, 1997.
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The gzhan stong model of reality: Some more material on its origin, transmission, and interpretation
Mathes, Klaus-Dieter. "The Gzhan stong Model of Reality: Some More Material on Its Origin, Transmission, and Interpretation." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 34, no. 1–2 (2011): 187–223.
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The Process of Awakening in Early Texts on Buddha-Nature in India
Zimmermann, Michael. "The Process of Awakening in Early Texts on Buddha-Nature in India." In A Distant Mirror: Articulating Indic Ideas in Sixth and Seventh Century Chinese Buddhism, edited by Chen-kuo Lin and Michael Radich, 513–28. Hamburg Buddhist Studies 3. Hamburg: Hamburg University Press, 2014.
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Further Folios from the Set of Miscellaneous Texts in Śāradā Palm-leaves from Zha lu Ri phug
Ye, Shaoyong, Xuezhu Li, and Kazuo Kano. "Further Folios from the Set of Miscellaneous Texts in Śāradā Palm-leaves from Zha lu Ri phug: A Preliminary Report Based on Photographs Preserved in the CTRC, CEL and IsIAO." China Tibetology 1 (2013): 30–47.
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A Critical Edition and Translation of a Text Fragment from Abhayākaragupta's Āmnāyamañjarī: Göttingen, Cod.ms.sanscr.259b
Tomabechi, Tōru, and Kazuo Kano. "A Critical Edition and Translation of a Text Fragment from Abhayākaragupta's Āmnāyamañjarī: Göttingen, Cod.ms.sanscr.259b." Tantric Studies 1 (2008): 22–44.
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Who Wrote the Trisvabhāvanirdeśa? Reflections on an Enigmatic Text and Its Place in the History of Buddhist Philosophy
Kapstein, Matthew T. "Who Wrote the Trisvabhāvanirdeśa? Reflections on an Enigmatic Text and Its Place in the History of Buddhist Philosophy." Journal of Indian Philosophy 46 (2018): 1–30.
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Coming to Terms with Tibet: Scholarly Networks and the Production of the First "Modern" Tibetan Dictionaries
Viehbeck, Markus. "Coming to Terms with Tibet: Scholarly Networks and the Production of the First "Modern" Tibetan Dictionaries." Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 37 (2016): 469–489.
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The Old Tibetan Version of the Kāśyapaparivarta preserved in Fragments from Dunhuang - Part 1
Apple, James B. "The Old Tibetan Version of the Kāśyapaparivarta preserved in Fragments from Dunhuang (1)." Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University 20 (2016): 205–230.
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The Myth of Rudra's Subjugation According to the bsgrags pa gling grags
Orofino, Giacomella. "The Myth of Rudra's Subjugation According to the bsgrags pa gling grags. Some Observations on the Beginning of a Historiographical Tradition." In Studies in Honour of Luciano Petech. A Commemoration Volume 1914-2014. Pisa, Italy: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2016.
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The Mandala Temple of Tabo: A Reassessment of the Chronology based on Tibetan Historic Inscriptions and the Iconography of the Mural Paintings
Heller, Amy. “The Maṇḍala Temple of Tabo: A Reassessment of the Chronology based on Tibetan Historic Inscriptions and the Iconography of the Mural Paintings.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 41 (2017): 202–225.
