Katia Buffetrille
Encyclopedia
Katia Buffetrille is a French
ethnologist and tibetologist. She works at the École pratique des hautes études
(EPHE 5th section). Her doctoral thesis is entitled Montagnes sacrées, lacs et grottes : lieux de pèlerinage dans le monde tibétain. Traditions écrites. Réalités vivantes (thesis national number: 1996PA100065). She has done fieldwork in Tibet
and Nepal
, researching pilgrimage, non-Buddhist beliefs, and sacred geography.
She is in charge of a seminar on rituals at the Centre de recherches sur les civilisations chinoise, japonaise et tibétaine (UMR 8155) and is editor of the journal Études mongoles, sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines (EMSCAT).
French people
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ethnologist and tibetologist. She works at the École pratique des hautes études
École pratique des hautes études
The École pratique des hautes études is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions....
(EPHE 5th section). Her doctoral thesis is entitled Montagnes sacrées, lacs et grottes : lieux de pèlerinage dans le monde tibétain. Traditions écrites. Réalités vivantes (thesis national number: 1996PA100065). She has done fieldwork in Tibet
Tibet
Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...
and Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
, researching pilgrimage, non-Buddhist beliefs, and sacred geography.
She is in charge of a seminar on rituals at the Centre de recherches sur les civilisations chinoise, japonaise et tibétaine (UMR 8155) and is editor of the journal Études mongoles, sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines (EMSCAT).
Works
- 1998 : Tibétains, 1959-1999, quarante ans de colonisation, de Katia Buffetrille et C. Ramble; Ed Autrement, coll. Monde, numéro ISBN : 286260822X
- 2000 : Pèlerins, lamas et visionnaires. Sources orales et écrites sur les pèlerinages tibétains coll. Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien.
- 2002 : Le Tibet est-il chinois ? de Anne-Marie Blondeau et Katia Buffetrille, ed. Albin Michel, coll. Sciences des religions.
- 2004 : Tibet, jours de fêtes, de Eric Lobo et Katia Buffetrille, ed. Romain Pagès.
- 2008 : Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's One-Hundred Questions de A.M. Blondeau et K. Buffetrille, ed. University of California Press, Berkeley.
External links
- Katia Buffetrille (EPHE)