DeLancey (1992) and Hongladarom (1994) suppose that ḥdug means' sit'in Old and
Classical Tibetan, and that these languages entirely lack the evidential use of this …

This article presents the first diachronic investigation of the honorific register in Tibetic
languages. Although all historically attested Tibetic languages possess at least some …

The study of ancient writings, or palaeography, has been practised under that name in
Europe since the 17th century. Growing out of the scholars' need to read manuscripts in …

The paper discusses disparate language phenomena whose common denominator is their
relevance for the study of argument realisation in Old Literary Tibetan. It attempts to outline …

Tibeto‐Burman historical linguistics has relied heavily on the spelling of Burmese and
Tibetan words as found in standard modern dictionaries, at the expense of the earliest …

Conflict in a Buddhist Society presents a new way of looking at Tibet under the rule of the
Dalai Lamas (1642–1959). Although this era can be clearly delineated as a distinct period in …

This article offers some more detail on a Tibetan prayer dating from the ninth century and
recently discovered in Mogao Cave 17. This Tridaṇḍaka prayer was perhaps first written …

Drawing on the archival study of over 1,600 copies of the Tibetan Aparimitāyur-nāma
mahāyāna-sūtra (Tib.: Tshe dpag du myed pa'i mdo) produced in Dunhuang from the 820s …

This article is concerned with four inscriptions found at Bodhgayā in the nineteenth century
that are documented by records kept in the Department of Asia at the British Museum. Two …

In previous studies, an individual Old Tibetan inscription's chronological attribution to the
reign of a particular Tibetan emperor1 has almost always rested on the mention of that ruler …