Dear Colleagues in Tibetan Studies:
We are writing to inform you that the fifth issue of the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (JIATS) is now available at the JIATS homepage (http://www.jiats.org/) and at http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/. It was published provisionally on December 31, 2009, but final editing and technical implementation was only completed this month (March 2011). Please consult our Help (http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#wiki=/access/wiki/site/c06fa8cf-c49c-4ebc-007f-482de5382105/an%20introduction%20to%20jiats%20and%20thl%20essays%20online.html) for simple guidelines on how to use JIATS to its optimum capacity.
Many of you will no doubt ask – isn't there a print version? The answer is yes. Download the PDF version of the journal and print it out. What you will have is just what you would have as an offprint from a traditional print journal.
This issue of JIATS is a thematic issue focusing on Tibetan canonical literature. We would like to thank Kurtis R. Schaeffer, the guest editor of this issue, for all his hard work in the process of preparing this issue, from soliciting articles to reviewing the status of revisions. Funding for this issue comes from grants awarded to the University of Virginia by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the US Department of Education.
The University of Virginia provided the editorial and technical labor in producing the issue, with editing performed by William McGrath and Alison Melnick, technical work by Nathaniel Grove, and overall management and many other tasks by Steven Weinberger.
JIATS has other thematic issues under development for the future. In the coming months, look for issues on subjects such as Tibetan-Chinese interactions at Wutai Shan and the important eighteenth-century Tibetan figure Situ Penchen Chökyi Jungné.
JIATS accepts submissions in English and Tibetan, and we especially encourage Tibetan scholars to submit work. Please contact David Germano (dfg9ww@gmail.com), the editor, if you wish to submit an article to JIATS, and let us know also about ideas you might have or if you wish to help shape a thematic issue. For book reviews, please contact Bryan Cuevas (bcuevas@fsu.edu). We especially encourage contributors to think expansively about the new possibilities of a digital journal publication embedded within a rich digital library. In order to reduce the expense of publishing JIATS, we ask that contributors consult the Style Guide (http://bit.ly/gbtOp0) in preparing final submissions of work accepted for publication in JIATS. This includes authors preparing a table, in a word processing document, of Tibetan terms that appear in the article, to facilitate creation of the JIATS interactive glossaries.
If you find any problems whatsoever, or have any suggestions at all for improving the format and delivery of JIATS, we are eager to hear them. Please contact us at jiatscontact@collab.itc.virginia.edu. Thanks and we hope you enjoy the new issue.
Sincerely,
David Germano
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies
Charles Ramble
President
International Association of Tibetan Studies
TABLE OF CONTENTS for Issue 5
Articles
Contributions to the Development and Classification of Abhisamayālaṃkāra Literature in Tibet from the Ninth to Fourteenth Century
– James B. Apple
A Noble Noose of Methods, the Lotus Garland Synopsis: Methodological Issues in the Study of a Mahāyoga Text from Dunhuang
– Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer
On the Very Idea of a Tantric Canon: Myth, Politics, and the Formation of the Bka' 'gyur
– David B. Gray
Recovering a Lost Literary Heritage: Preliminary Research on the Wanli Bka' 'gyur from Berlin
– Agnieszka Helman-Ważny
Two Bka' 'gyur Works in Mahāmudrā Canons: The Ārya-ātajñāna-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra and the Anāvila-tantra-rāja
– Roger R. Jackson
Classicism in Commentarial Writing: Exegetical Parallels in the Indian Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Commentaries
– Ulrich Timme Kragh
Canonical Literature in Western Tibet and the Structural Analysis of Canonical Collections
– Bruno Lainé
The Role of the Bodhicittavivaraṇa in the Mahāmudrā Tradition of the Dwags po bka' brgyud
– Klaus-Dieter Mathes
Notes on the Co ne Bka' 'gyur and Bstan 'gyur in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
– Susan Meinheit
Guṇaprabha's Vinayasūtra Corpus: Texts and Contexts
– Paul K. Nietupski
On the Vicissitudes of Subhūticandra's Kāmadhenu Commentary on the Amarakoṣa in Tibet
– Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp
Pseudepigrapha in the Tibetan Buddhist 'Canonical Collections': The Case of the Caryāmelāpakapradīpa Commentary Attributed to Śākyamitra
– Christian K. Wedemeyer
Book Reviews
Akester's Rejoinder to M. Goldstein's Response to "Review of A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm, 1951-55, by Melvyn C. Goldstein"
– Matthew Akester
Review of Tibetan Ritual, edited by José Ignacio Cabezón
– Christopher Bell
Review of The Culture of the Book in Tibet, by Kurtis R. Schaeffer
– Hildegard Diemberger
Goldstein's Response to M. Akester's "Review of A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2: The Calm before the Storm, 1951-55, by Melvyn C. Goldstein"
– Melvyn C. Goldstein
Review of Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet, by Trent Pomplun
– Michael Sweet
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Contributors to this issue
