Monks, Monasteries and Religion

A young monk studying a religious text in his room in Drepung Monastery in 1990.

Papers on Tibetan Monks 

Ardussi, John; Epstein, Lawrence

• The Saintly Madman in Tibet
  [In "Himalayan Anthropology: The Indo-Tibetan Interface". James F. Fisher (ed.), Paris: Mouton & Co. Pp. 327-338, 1978.]

Belka, Lubos; Slobodnik, Martin

• The Revival of Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Asia: A Comparative Perspective
  [Asian and African Studies, Vol. 11, Number 1, 2002: pp15-36]

Buffetrille, Katia

• The Great Pilgrimage of A-myes rma-chen: Written Tradition, Living Realities [Mandala and Landscape. Dehli, D.k. Printworld: 75-132, 1997.]

• The Evolution of a Tibetan Pilgrimage: The Pilgrimage to A myes rMa chen Mountain in the 21st Century [21st Century Tibet. Symposium on Contemporary Tibetan Studies. Taipeh, Taiwan. 2003.]

• A Bonpo Pilgrimage: Guide to Amnye Machen Mountain [Lungta: Journal of Tibetan History and Culture No. 8: 20-24]

Carrico, Kevin

• Tibetan Buddhist Self-Immolation
  [Oxford University Press, 2015]

 Famularo, Julia

• Spinning the Wheel: Policy Implications of the Dalai Lama’s Reincarnation
  [Project 2049 Institute, 2012.]

Getzelman, Sarah

• Forbidden Image: The 1996 Chinese Ban of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s Image
  [SJEAA: Greater China, Winter 2008]

Goldstein, Melvyn C.

• A Study of the Ldab Ldob
  [Central Asiatic Journal. 9(2): 125-41, 1964.]
• Religious Conflict in the Traditional Tibetan State
  [In "Reflections on Tibetan Culture: Essays in Memory of T.V. Wylie". L. Epstein & R. Sherburne (eds.), Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen. Pp. 231-47, 1990.]
• The Revival of Monastic Life in Drepung Monastery, Chapter 2
  [In "Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity". M. Goldstein & M. Kapstein (eds.), 1998.]
• Tibetan Buddhism and Mass Monasticism 
  [In Adeline Herrou and Gisele Krauskopff (eds.), Des moines et des moniales dans le monde. La vie monastique dans le miroir de la parenté. Presses Universitaires de Toulouse le Mirail, publication date, 2010. [English version of paper in French]
• The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama
  [University of California Press, 1997.]
• Introduction 
  [Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival & Cultural Identity. Pp. 1-15. 1998.]
• The Circulation of Estates in Tibet: Reincarnation, Land and Politics (.pdf)
  [Journal of Asia Studies. Vol XXXII NO. 3, May 1973, pg. 445-455.]

Goldstein, Melvyn C.; Kapstein, Matthew T.

• Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity.
  [University of California Press, 1998 | Paperback Edition, University of California Press, 1999 | South Asian Edition, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, India, 1999.]

Goldstein, Melvyn C.; Tsarong, Paljor

• Tibetan Buddhist Monasticism: Social, Psychological & Cultural Implications
  [The Tibet Journal. 10(1): 14-31, 1985.]

Lhundup, Tanzen

• The Changes of Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in the Past Half Century: A Case Study of Drepung Monastery [China Tibetology No. 1: 32-62, 2011]

Two Dobdo monks in Depung Monastery in traditional Tibet.