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. 2 (2026): Journal of Tibetan Literature

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The Journal of Tibetan Literature 4.2. 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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Letter from the Editors

རྩོམ་སྒྲིག་པའི་འཕྲིན།

Andrew Quintman, Kurtis Schaeffer

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Paths, Waterfalls, and Awakenings: Döndrup Gyel and the Development of Tibetan Nationalist Discourse in Modern China

ལམ་དང་རྦབ་ཆུ། རྟོག་སད་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་ལས་དོན་གྲུབ་རྒྱལ་དང་དེང་རབས་རྒྱ་ནག་ནང་གི་བོད་ཀྱི་མི་རིགས་རིང་ལུགས་ཀྱི་བསམ་བློའི་འཕེལ་རིམ་སྐོར།

Christopher Peacock

This article presents a reading of Döndrup Gyel, modern Tibet’s most prominent writer, from the perspective of his nationalist discourse and its connections ... More

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Gsan yig in Bridging the Historical Gap of Abhidharmakośa Tradition in Tibetan Buddhism

གསན་ཡིག་གི་ལམ་ནས་བོད་བརྒྱུད་ནང་བསྟན་དུ་ཆོས་མངོན་པའི་མཛོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཀྱི་སྟོང་ཆ་ཁ་སྐོང་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས།།

Mriti Gyana

This essay examines the complex lineage transmission of the Abhidharmakośa (ADK) within Tibetan Buddhism, addressing a critical yet understudied aspect of Abh... More

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Pond of Blossoming White Lotuses: An Ornamental Ode to the Goddess of Melodies, Sarasvatī by Shuchen Tsultrim Rinchen

སྒྲ་དབྱངས་ལྷ་མོ་དབྱངས་ཅན་མ་ལ་བསྔགས་པ་དོན་རྒྱན་པདྨ་དཀར་པོ་བཞད་པའི་རྫིང་བུ།

Joie Szu-Chiao Chen

This is a translation of a poem written by Shuchen Tsultrim Rinchen (Zhu chen Tshul khrims rin chen, 1697-1774), best known as the editor of the Dergé edition ... 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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