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Journal of Tibetan Literature

Research, Translation, Criticism

The Journal of Tibetan Literature focuses on the aesthetic dimensions of Tibetan literature in order to enhance appreciation of one of the world's great traditions.

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025): Journal of Tibetan Literature

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The Journal of Tibetan Literature 4.1. The Journal of Tibetan Literature is a biannual, peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to publishing research, translation, and criticism on Tibetan-language texts from the origin of the written language to the present. 

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Refuge of the Enemy of the Dharma: Qalqa Čogtu Qongtaiji’s Čagan Baiśing Stele Inscription
བསྟན་དགྲའི་སྐྱབས་གནས། རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆོག་ཐོའུ་ ཧོང་ཐེ་ཅིའི་ཕོ་བྲང་དཀར་པོའི་རྡོ་བརྐོས་ཡི་གེ

Sangseraima Ujeed

This article presents the translation and analysis of an object that has preserved the voice of one such individual. Namely, the stele of Čagan Baiśing, “Th... More

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Sa-paṇ’s Hermeneutics: The Principles of Interpretation in His Three Major Works
ས་པན་གྱི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་རིག་པ། ཁོང་གི་གསུང་རྩོམ་གཙོ་བོ་གསུམ་གྱི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་རྩ་དོན་ཁག

Sonam Jamtsho

This article examines the hermeneutical framework developed by Sa-skya Paṇḍita Kun-dga’ rgyal-mtshan (1183–1251, hereafter Sa-paṇ), a pivotal figure i... More

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Research

Research articles on the history, form, content, and social dimensions of Tibetan-language literature.

Translation

Translations of poetry and prose spanning the full scope of Tibetan literary history.

Criticism

Essays on current issues in the study, appreciation, and analysis of Tibetan-language literature.

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The Journal of Tibetan Literature encourages an exploration of the literary in Tibetan writing from a wide range of methodological and theoretical perspectives.

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