Contents:

Editorial Preface.11

DIBYESH ANAND
Challenging ‘Tibetan Exceptionalism’: Exotica Tibet as an
Orientalist Construct.15

VIBHA ARORA
“Will You Buy My Yaks? I Want to Open a Teashop at Gangtok”:

The Crises of Roots and Routes Among the ’Brog pa of
Lhonak Valley in North Sikkim, India.37

ELISABETH BENARD
A Secret Affair: The Wedding of a Sakya Bdag mo.63

ANNE-SOPHIE BENTZ
National Identity and Diaspora: Tibetan Refugees in India.93

TRINE BROX
Changing the Tibetan Way? Contesting Secularisms in the
Tibetan Diaspora.117

M. ALEJANDRO CHAOUL
Cutting Through Boundaries: A Study on the Bonpo Gcod.143

THUPTEN KUNGA CHASHAB
Transmission of Si tu Pa? chen ’s Grammar Teaching According to
His Autobiography.169

YESHI CHOEDON
State, Non-Governmental Organizations and Refugees:

A Study of Their Interface with Regard to Education
of Tibetan Refugee Children.181

SOLOMON GEORGE FITZHERBERT
A Modern Version of the Birth of Gesar.215

HANNA HAVNEVIK
Drapchi Lhamo: The Construction of a Fortune Cult in Lhasa.255

AGNIESZKA HELMAN-WAZNY
Historical, Art-Historical, and Natural Science Approaches to
Dating Tibetan Books—Possibilities and Limitations.279

TONI HUBER
Relating to Tibet: Narratives of Origin & Migration Among
Highlanders of the Far Eastern Himalaya.297

JOACHIM G. KARSTEN AND VERONIKA RONGE
Mu tig thug khog: A Preliminary Note on Lhasa-Tibetan Pearl Coifs
(Early 18th to Mid-20th Centuries).337

GERALD KOZICZ
The 12th Century Stupa Temple of Saspotse.363

ANNA MORCOM
History, Traditions, Identities and Nationalism: Drawing and
Redrawing the Musical Cultural Map of Tibet.385

STEPHANIE RÖMER
The 14th Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Struggle in Exile: An Analysis.419

MICHELLE J. SORENSEN
The Body Extraordinary: Embodied Praxis, Vajrayogini, and
Buddhist Gcod.439

ANTONIO TERRONE
“Anything is an Appropriate Treasure Teaching!”
Authentic Treasure Revealers and the Moral Implications
of Noncelibate Tantric Practice.457

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