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    <title>Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines</title>
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    <description>Édition en ligne de la revue de sciences humaines spécialisée sur l'Asie Intérieure et Septentrionale EMSCAT</description>        
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    <title>Jean-Baptiste Georges-Picot, Places Made of Images. The Domestic Shrines of Minyak</title>
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      <p class="texte"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Entitled “</span><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Places Made of Images. The Domestic Shrines of Minyak</span><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">”, this dissertation focuses on six Buddhist shrines dating from the 15</span><sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">th</span></sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">-16</span><sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">th</span></sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> centuries, located in the easternmost fringes of Eastern Tibet (Khams). A Chinese monograph (Luo 2012) sketched a preliminary description of this corpus. Providing its first comprehensive analysis, this dissertation is one of the few works dedicated to the painted heritage of Khams. This study is divided into two sections, each consisting of three chapters. The first part presents the shrines and their contexts. Where most scholarly works on Tibetan murals focus on temple and monastery images, these chapters elaborate on the domestic location of four of the six sites. In particular, they raise the question of whether a domestic shrine is just a smaller version of those found in monasteries and temples. The second half of the dissertation focuses on the interpretation of the murals. Beyond the case of Minyak (Tib. Mi nyag; Ch. </span><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">木雅</span><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> Muya), this se...</span></p>]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-01-09</dc:date>
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    <title>Tibet’s tripartite geo-body. Multivalent directional toponyms from the 7th to 21st centuries</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The idea of a greater Tibet has its roots in the Tibetan empire of the 7</span><sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">th</span></sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">-9</span><sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">th</span></sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> centuries. This research demonstrates that even after its collapse, Tibetan writers began to articulate an idea of a broader Tibet including both eastern and western regions of the plateau using various three-region frameworks since at least the 12</span><sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">th</span></sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> or 13</span><sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">th</span></sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> century. However, the various toponyms for its three regions did not remain fixed to specific geographic features throughout the centuries and instead maintained a certain flexibility in their range of usages. Regional toponyms such as Amdo, Kham, and Ü Tsang are directional and context-dependent, enabling a range of usages based on spatial logics specific to the Tibetan geography. This research also contributes to the finding that while the toponyms Ü Tsang, Kham, and Amdo have long histories, their usage together in a tripartite framework emerged as late as the 20</span><sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">th</span></sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> century. However, tracing the precedents for this usage illustrates that even this m...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Eveline Washul</dc:creator>
    <link>http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/7007</link>
    <dc:date>2026-01-09</dc:date>
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    <title>Language policy in Buryatia and Kalmykia in the 1920s-1930s. Between “Soviet-Ethnic”, “Soviet-Non-Russian”, “Soviet-Russian”, and “All-Mongolian” factors</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The “language issue” (Ru. Iazykovaia problema) in the USSR was considered ideologically very significant. The peculiarities of the language policy towards the Mongolic peoples of the USSR in the 1920s-1930s corresponded to the general Soviet trends. There was a competition among four policy frameworks: “Soviet-Ethnic”, “Soviet-Russian”, “Soviet-Non-Russian”, and “All-Mongolian” (Foreign policy). These four factors varied in importance as policy objectives changed during this time. This paper outlines the dynamic political history of these factors over time.</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Fedor Sinitsyn</dc:creator>
    <link>http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/7063</link>
    <dc:date>2026-01-09</dc:date>
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    <title>Buddhism and mobility. Nomadic monasteries of Mongolia, 16th-19th century</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Beside stationary Buddhist monasteries, the Mongols also had itinerant monasteries with felt and wooden temples that periodically moved in the steppes and mountains of Inner Asia. Most of them eventually settled down in the course of the 18</span><sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">th</span></sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> and 19</span><sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">th</span></sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> centuries, but up to the early 20</span><sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">th</span></sup><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> century, a few mobile monasteries continued to nomadise in western Mongolia. This paper first argues that there is no reason for a Buddhist monastery not to be made up of felt tents and frequently change locations, and that lightweight, demountable architecture is not restricted to the </span><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">ger</span></em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> (yurt) but includes prestigious large structures. Finally, it examines the mobility patterns of itinerant monasteries and the various reasons for their moves to determine whether their migration was a matter of choice or necessity.</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Isabelle Charleux</dc:creator>
    <link>http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/7221</link>
    <dc:date>2026-01-09</dc:date>
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    <title>An interpretative reflection of equal opportunity in Tibetan nuns’ journal of Gangkar Lhamo</title>
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      <p class="resume"><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Gangkar Lhamo</span></em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> (Tib. </span><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Gangs dkar lha mo</span></em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">, “Snow mountain goddess”) is the first contemporary Tibetan journal which is edited and published by Tibetan nuns at the Larung Gar Monastery. This annual journal exemplifies the improved educational opportunities and levels among Tibetan nuns and Tibetan women’s writing in general. Through the textual analysis of various articles about women’s social status, this fieldwork note explains how nuns are coming to recognise and discuss their growing understanding and awareness of gender inequality. Furthermore, it examines how they seek to challenge the traditional Tibetan notion of “male superiority and female inferiority” (Tib. </span><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">pho mchog mo dman</span></em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">).</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator> Baimacuo</dc:creator>
    <link>http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/7126</link>
    <dc:date>2026-01-09</dc:date>
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    <title>Memory practices of women’s religious empowerment. Underground female healers and Buddhist ascetics of the Soviet era</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Through the lens of memory practices and hagiographic representations (not only narrative, but also architectural), the article examines the lives and ongoing deification of three influential women who </span><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">engaged in religious and healing activities during the Soviet suppression of religion in the Buddhist society of Kalmykia. Addressing questions of women’s empowerment in conservative religions facilitated by the state atheistic policy and persecution of monastics, I theorise the concept of “underground” as a socio-cultural space which allows for the emergence of female religious authority in the historically male-dominated Kalmyk Buddhist milieu, further reinforced by patriarchal social structures. The posthumous recognition of Soviet-era female religious practitioners as divine emanations, while a new, grassroots development for Kalmykia, can also be regarded as evolving into both an empowerment and an appropriation of these women and their memories by the Buddhist institution, or wh...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Valeria Gazizova</dc:creator>
    <link>http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/7304</link>
    <dc:date>2026-01-09</dc:date>
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    <title>The logic and practices of female empowerment in Mongolia</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">In Mongolia, women may not be able to express the same physical, linguistic, or political strength as men, but they nonetheless have many important social roles to play. This context leads us to question the logics and practices of female empowerment in Mongolia. Using geographic, ethnographic and netnographic methods, and data collected between 2015 and 2023, we will answer the following question: is the agency of Mongolian women a form of empowerment?</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Éléa Boënnec</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Isaline Saunier</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2026-01-09</dc:date>
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    <title>When daughters teach their mothers: religious practices on the move. Case study: Muslims in Zanskar</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The ongoing academic debate on the place of women within broader social dynamics has garnered increasing public attention in recent years, especially in terms of socioeconomic and sociopolitical research. This paper aims at addressing the specific impact that female migrants have had on the process of religious revival, in this particular case based on anthropological research material gathered in the Zanskar Valley in India. Existing anthropological studies (P. Dollfus, I. Riaboff, K. I. Gutschow, H. Osmaston, V. Bhasin, J. Crook, L. Petech, F. Pirie, S. Day, D. Pinault, G. Emmer, Ghani Sheikh, N. Grist, etc.) have failed to adequately reflect the specific dynamics and mechanics involved in the transformation of community identity that result from internal movements within that same community. These studies have focused overwhelmingly on the acceptance of people from outside the community, ignoring the fact that a community’s true resilience comes from within. We now know how signi...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Salomé Deboos</dc:creator>
    <link>http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/7228</link>
    <dc:date>2026-01-09</dc:date>
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    <title>The art of finding empowerment in renunciation. A portrait of the Nyungne Fasting rite at Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery, Kathmandu, Nepal</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">This article presents a portrait of the Nyungne Fasting Ritual held at Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery. It explores the ritual in light of the nuns’ positioning within Tibetan Buddhism’s gendered socio-religious hierarchy, and the consequences of a swiftly changing demography in Tibetan Buddhist nunneries in exile. It further argues that the male cleric’s disregard for this challenging ritual creates space for the Tibetan nuns to explore their close bonds to food and their emotional relationships with Tantric practices.</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Chandra Chiara Ehm</dc:creator>
    <link>http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/7163</link>
    <dc:date>2026-01-09</dc:date>
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    <title>From institutional feminism to women’s projects. Reflections on women’s empowerment and feminism(s) in Tibetan society</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">This article looks at women’s emancipation and feminism in Tibet. It starts by tracing the advent of state feminism in Tibet in the early 1950s, closely linked to the ideology of the Chinese communist regime. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Tibet and within the Tibetan diaspora in India, as well as research from literary and social media sources, it then presents various feminist practices observed from across all of these areas. Finally, it shows how institutional feminism and projects led individually by women work together, overlap or co-exist.</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Nicola Schneider</dc:creator>
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