Katia Buffetrille, Ph.D. (1996), Nanterre University, is fellow researcher at the École pratique des Hautes Études. She has published and edited several books and written many articles on Tibet including (with A.M. Blondeau) Authenticating Tibet. Answers to 100 China questions (University of California Press, 2008).
'The whole volume is a cornucopia of careful and original research.
These results are highly topical and timely. The difficulty of
research on the topics presented in the book is marked by the fact
that most of the papers touch upon an unfolding process. (...) The
reviewed book thus must be taken as a pioneering event. I am
convinced that it will become an essential reference work for
future, similarly-oriented studies. In my opinion, the inclusion of
the articles dealing with Newar Buddhists in Nepal and with the
contemporary state of Buddhism in Mongolia is a valuable enrichment
of the book. These studies will inspire discussion within a broader
perspective, very relevant for Tibetologists.'
Daniel Berounský, Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia ’12: Linguistics,
Ethnolinguistics, Religion and Culture, 5/2 (2012)
'In summary, this book offers the reader a wealth of new
information by scholars who are at the forefront of their
respective fields. It is well produced, on good quality paper, is
solidly bound, and sits well with the other volumes in this series.
Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library has firmly established itself as a
pacesetter in the field and this volume enhances that status even
further.'
David Templeman, Monash University, Australia, Himalaya, XXXII
(2012)
'...each of its ten essays serves as an informed call for future
research and offers an enriched vocabulary with which to
proceed.(...) This volume will prove a valuable ethnographic
resource for scholars of anthropology, religion, and modern
political and social history in Nepal, India, Bhutan, Mongolia, and
China.(...) One of this book's major insights is that while the
modern period has been marked by particularly abrupt sociopolitical
shifts,the same factors of technological innovation, resource
access, political change, and human migration have influenced the
life of religious traditions in all eras of history. By
illuminating modern moments of ritual change, or perceived ritual
change, these scholars offer us a vocabulary with which to discern
transformations in ritual structure or function in other eras and
contexts. Thus, scholars researching the distant past as well as
those who focus on the modern period will benefit from the
methodological contributions this volume makes and the questions
for future inquiry toward which it beckons.'
Christina Kilby (University of Virginia), Asian Highlands
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