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Katia Buffetrille
Katia Buffetrille is a French ethnologist and tibetologist. She works at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE 5th section). Her doctoral thesis is entitled Montagnes sacrées, lacs et grottes : lieux de pèlerinage dans le monde tibétain. Traditions écrites. Réalités vivantes (thesis national number: 1996PA100065). She has done fieldwork in Tibet and Nepal, researching pilgrimage, non-Buddhist beliefs, and sacred geography.
She is in charge of a seminar on rituals at the Centre de recherches sur les civilisations chinoise, japonaise et tibétaine (UMR 8155) and is editor of the journal Études mongoles, sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines (EMSCAT).
Works
1998: Tibétains, 1959-1999, quarante ans de colonisation, with Charles Ramble; Volume 108 of Autrement: Collection Monde, ISBN 2-86260-822-X
2000: Pèlerins, lamas et visionnaires. Sources orales et écrites sur les pèlerinages tibétains coll. Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien.
2002: Le Tibet est-il chinois ? with Anne-Marie Blondeau and Wei Jing, Paris: Albin Michel, Sciences des religions.
2002: Tibet, jours de fêtes, with Eric Lobo, Published by Romain Pagès. ISBN 2-84350-104-0
2008: Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's One-Hundred Questions with Anne-Marie Blondeau (as editors), University of California Press, Berkeley. (Adapted and updated translation of Le Tibet est-il chinois ? ISBN 978-0-520-24464-1
2012: Revisiting rituals in a changing Tibetan context (ed.). Leiden: Brill, 2012. ISBN 978-90-04-23217-4
