...Dawa Norbu Tibetan Nation: A History of Tibetan Nationalism and Sino-Tibetan Relations . By Warren W. Smith Jr. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1996 .xxviii, 732 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 1090 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES good...

...Turrell V. Wylie Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan . Edited by Melvyn Goldstein . Kathmandu, Nepal : Ratna Pustak Bhandar , 1975 . Bibliotheca Himalayica, series II, vol. 9. 1234 pp. 140 Nepalese rupees (approx. $12.00). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... is that seemingly base terms such as ulus , used in these other texts, or dalai , or törö or even yeke , often have quite specialized meanings that must be taken fully into consideration by drawing in a greater variety of comparative texts, not all of them in Mongolian or Tibetan (principally Persian...

...Kurtis R. Schaeffer Tibetan Histories: A Bibliography of Tibetan-Language Historical Works . By Dan Martin in collaboration with Yael Bentor. London : Serindia Publications , 1997 . 295 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 856 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...José Ignacio Cabezón Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and Their Tibetan Successors . By David Snellgrove . 2 vols Boston : Shambhala , 1987 . xxiv, 526 pp. $18.95 per volume (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 925...

...Catherine Hardie 2 Fabienne Jagou, ed., The Hybridity of Buddhism: Contemporary Encounters between Tibetan and Chinese Traditions in Taiwan and the Mainland (Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2018). 1 Dan Smyer Yü, The Spread of Tibetan Buddhism in China: Charisma, Money...

...Agehananda Bharati Tibetan Buddhism without Mystification. The Buddhist Way from the Original Tibetan Sources . By Herbert V. Guenther . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1966 . 156 pp. Plates, Tibetan texts. 40 guilders. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 156...

... Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro . By Sarah H. Jacoby . New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . xxv, 422 pp. ISBN 9780231147682 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 One sign of the impact of the turn to the vernacular across...

... upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing , 2010 ) . 3 Roger Hart , “ Beyond Science and Civilization: A Post-Needham Critique ”, East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 16 (1999): 88 – 114 . 2 It also brings scholarship on Tibetan medicine into conversation...

...Nikolay Tsyrempilov Tibetan Renaissance: Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture . By Ronald M. Davidson . New York : Columbia University Press , 2005 . 616 pp. $78.00 (cloth); 528 pp. $33.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007...

...Alex Wayman Study on Early Tibetan Chronicles: Regarding Discrepancies of Dates and their Adjustments . By Bunkyo Aoki . Tokyo : Japan Society for the Promotion of Science , 1955 . 161 . Notes, Appendices, Tables, Diagrams. Photolithographed. $3.00. Copyright © The Association...

... . Washington, D. C. : American Council of Learned Societies , 1955 . Program in Oriental Languages. Publications Series B—Aids—No. 2. iv, 170 . Glossary, Index. $2.00 (paper). The Tibetan System of Writing . By Roy Andrew Miller . Washington, D. C. : American Council of Learned Societies , 1956...

... are written on this subject Dr. Li's work will provide a solid foundation. He deserves the gratitude of every student of Tibetan history and culture. SCHUYLER V. R . CAMMANN University of Pennsylvania Oracles and Demons of Tibet. The Cult and Iconography of the Tibetan Protective Deities. By RENE^ DE NEBESKT...

...Robert J. Miller The Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism . By Antoinette K. Gordon . ( Revised Edition ) Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan : Charles E. Tuttle Company , 1959 . xxxi, 131 . Illustrations, two in color, Bibliography, Index. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Jan M. A. van der Valk The five essays that make up part one trace the definitions of specific (clusters of) concepts relating to Tibetan medicine: “brown phlegm” (Tib. bad kan smug po ) and its likely derivation from the Greco-Arab “black bile” in early Tibetan sources (Henk Blezer...

... that can continue to be mined not only for information about nineteenth-century mapmaking, but also for data pertaining to rituals and depictions of material culture and ethnic groups, among other interests. Consequently, An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama will have great appeal...

...James Leibold The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier . By Benno Weiner . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2020 . xx, 283 pp. ISBN: 9781501749391 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 On September 11, 1953, a dozen Chinese...

...Tenzin Jinba Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland . Edited by Stéphane Gros . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 2019 . 554 pp. ISBN: 9789463728713 (hardback). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Frontier Tibet...

...Kurtis R. Schaeffer Prisoners of Shangri-la: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface . By Donald S. Lopez Jr . Chicago : Chicago University Press , 2018 . 283 pp. ISBN: 9780226485485 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Mona Schrempf Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine . Edited by Theresia Hofer . New York : Rubin Museum of Art, in association with Seattle: University of Washington Press , 2014 . x, 360 pp., 250 illus., 120 color. ISBN: 9780295993591 (cloth). Copyright ©...