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HISTORY
Zhang Yun: Several Questions Concerning Yang Tong (Zhang Zhung)
Cristina Scherrer-Schaub and Kurt Tropper: Ruler, Translators and Teachers: On Some Murals and Captions in the Lo tsā ba lha khang of Ri ba (mNga’ ris)
Chen Qingying and Wang Xiaojing: Research on Purangir. An Analysis Based on the Biography of the Sixth Panchen Lama
Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp: A Fifteenth Century Biography of Lha bla ma Ye shes ‘od (947-1019/24): Its Prolegomenon and Prophecies
Shen Weirong: The Political and Religious Legacy of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in Ming China. An Inverstigation into the Role of Tibetan Buddhism in the formation of the Political and Religious Institutions of the Tangut Xia Kingdom and the Mongol Yuan and Ming Dynasties
ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Deborah Klimburg-Salter: Along the Pilgrimage Routes between Uḍḍiyāṇa and Tibet. The Gilgit MSS Covers and the Tibetan Decorated Book Covers
Xie Jisheng and Yu Shuo: Eight Great Stūpas Sūtra Illustrations and Cultural Exchange between China and India in the Early Song Dynasty. The Origin of the Iconography of the Eight Great Stūpas in Mogao Cave 76
Zhang Changhong: The Dharmadhātuvāgīśvara Maṇḍala of Nyag Lha khang in mNga’ ris, Tibet
Shargan Wangdue: A Historic Survey of Manbg yul Gung thang rgyal rabs City and Other Architecture Ruins in smad mNga’ ris
Sonam Wangden: A Brief Introduction ot the Bronze Statues of the Btsan po Period
TEXTUAL STUDIES
Helmut Tauscher and Bruno Lainé: The ‘Early Mustang Kanjur’ and its Descendents
Xiong Wenbin: Marvellous Images, Epithets, Sūtras and Dhāraṇīs of the Buddhas and Boddhisattvas and Tibetan Buddhis Woodblock Prints in Inland China during the Ming Dynasty
HERITAGE PRESERVATION
André Alexander: Natural Disasters and Historic Preservation. Behaviour of Traditional Tibetan Architecture During Earthquakes and Flashfloods
Heather Stoddard. Eight Preservation Histories 1994-2000. The Shalu Association in Co-operation with the Bureau of Cultural Relics of The TAR
DIGITAL VISUAL ARCHIVING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Verena Widorn: The Western Himalaya Archive Vienna (WHAV). Towards a Centre for Digital Humanities
Karel Kriz: Understanding and Communicating Space. Cultural History Information System of the Western Himalaya from the 8th Century
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