In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for
Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans' encounters with Chinese state-led …

The aim of this essay is threefold. I would like first to propose a more refined choice of
analytical vocabulary for the study of Buddhist giving and related practices, by taking into …

Abstract “Mass monasticism,” defined as “an emphasis on recruiting and sustaining very
large numbers of celibate monks for their entire lives,” has been called one of “Tibet's unique …

Chinese imperial patronage of Tibetan Buddhism has a long history. However, in recent
years, increasing numbers of private Chinese individuals have been making gifts to Tibetan …

This study analyzes the growing appeal of Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese in
contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It examines the Tibetan tradition's historical …

This introduction to the special issue on Buddhism and law lays out an agenda for the socio-
legal study of contemporary Buddhism. We identify lacunae in the current literature and call …

This dissertation offers an ethnographic study of ngakpa/ma (sngags pa/ma, mf)–Tibetan
Buddhist non-monastic, non-celibate tantric yogis and yoginis–living in the Tibetan diaspora …

This dissertation ethnographically examines the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns in Yachen, a
mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment in eastern Tibet that emerged in the 1980s and …

This essay forms part of a larger project to re-foreground the place of Śākyamuni in Tibet by
exploring how images and texts related to the Buddha served as a primary organizing …

In his study of the rituals of Newar Buddhism, although he privileges other categories for his
analysis, David Gellner emphasizes that “[t] he first and most important distinction for Newar …