Charles Ramble
Biographic Data
| ID | 220324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Ramble |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramble |
| SIGNATURE | RAMBLE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | École Pratique des Hautes Études |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7560-187X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Histoire et philologie tibétaines
Programme de l’année 2023-2025 : I. Récits mythiques dans les rituels tibétains : vers une réconstruction phylomémétique. — II. Découverte d’une principauté himalayenne à partir de ses archives
Light at the End of a Dark Century: The Resurrection of Kyiv’s Khanenko Museum
The volume Art of Asia and the Islamic World. Kyiv: Safran Book, 2023, 352 pp., dedicated to the biggest collection of Asian Art in Ukraine, is under review. The main part of the book is divided into four chapters, devoted to a selection of objects from four different cultural clusters: Hinduism and Buddhism, China, the Islamic world, and Japan. Each section opens with a one-page introduction about the corresponding part of the collection, and ea…
Histoire et philologie tibétaines
Programme de l’année 2022-2023 : Le culte de la divinité Bonpo gTso mchog mkha’ ’gying (suite)
Bon and Naxi Manuscripts
The present volume offers a dozen studies of manuscripts of the Tibetan Bon and Naxi Dongba traditions across time and space. While some of the contributions focus on particular features of manuscripts from either tradition, others explicitly bridge the two by considering common codicological and material aspects of selected examples or common themes in the content of the texts. This is the first primarily object-based study to deal with the cult…
Is cancel culture coming to Himalayan Studies? Remarks on a recent critique of the life and work of Mary Shepherd Slusser
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther King The main purpose of this article by Emiline Smith and Erin L Thompson is ostensibly to proscribe the publication of unprovenanced works of art, particularly from the Kathmandu Valley. Such publications, the authors argue, should be prevented on the grounds that they may increase the value of such items in the illicit art market. The author…
Histoire et philologie tibétaines
Programme des années 2020-2021 et 2021-2022 : I. Le culte de la divinité Bonpo gTso mchog mkha’ ’gying (suite). — II. Matériaux pour l’étude de l’histoire de Porong (sPong rong), une principauté autonome du Tibet méridional, XIVe au XXe siècles (suite)
Taxation in Tibetan Societies: Rules, Practices and Discourses
Introduction to the translation of ‘Some preliminary questions regarding the mdos rituals’ by A-M Blondeau
This landmark study by one of the foremost Tibetologists of our time should perhaps be understood as the second in a trilogy of articles that appeared respectively in 1988, 1990 and 2002. The first, authored jointly with Samten Karmay, was ‘Le cerf à la vaste ramure: en guise d’introduction’ (Deer with large antlers: by way of an introduction) and the third ‘The mKha’ klong gsang mdos: some questions on ritual structure and cosmology’, the only o…
Histoire et philologie tibétaines
Programme de l’année 2019-2020 : I. Le culte de la divinité Bonpo gTso mchog mkha’ ‘gying. — II. Matériaux pour l’étude de l’histoire de Porong (sPong rong), une principauté autonome du Tibet méridional, XIVe au XXe siècles (suite). — III. Introduction à l’histoire et aux doctrines de la religion Bon (cours de master)
Bearers of the Past, Bridges with the Beyond: The Complicated Lives of Ordinary Objects
The emergence of social history within the domain of Tibetan Studies in recent years has been marked by a closer interest in the lives of people who would not usually be the subject of biographical studies. While there is also a Tibetan tradition of writing about the lives of sacred objects that has in turn attracted a certain amount of scholarly interest, the anthropological practice of documenting the histories of everyday artefacts remains rel…
Signs and Portents in Nature and in Dreams: What They Mean and What Can Be Done about Them
Divination reveals the visible component of an otherwise unseen configuration of forces that might affect our lives for better or for worse. However, in addition to divinatory techniques, there are signs all around us that do not need to be elicited by special methods, if only we knew how to recognize and interpret them. The behavior of wild animals at certain locations and at certain times of day is a particularly good way of discerning what (us…
Reason against Tradition: An Attempt at Cultural Reform in a Tibetan-speaking Community in Panchayat-Era Nepal
Connexions vibratoires tibétaines: Les effets du son sur les êtres vivants et l’environnement [portfolio]
Au Tibet, les sons peuvent guérir, rendre malade, protéger, défier, apaiser, polluer, purifier, séduire ou même libérer des attachements mondains. Les sons de l'environnement naturel se mêlent aux musiques et aux psalmodies des humains au sein de paysages sonores intimement interconnectés. Alors que les aspects spirituels et les pouvoirs guérisseurs des musiques rituelles bouddhiques ont souvent été décrits, le kaléidoscope des sons naturels et h…
Tibetan vibratory connections: The effects of sound on living things and the environment [portfolio]
In Tibet sounds can heal, make ill, protect, challenge, appease, defile, purify, seduce or even liberate from worldly attachments. Sounds of the natural environment merge with human-made music and chanting in soundscapes that are intimately interconnected. While the spiritual features and healing powers of Buddhist ritual music have been often described, what is perhaps less known is the kaleidoscope of natural and human sounds against which it h…
An Early Tibetan Gesar sang Text
This article introduces and presents an annotated English translation of what appears to be an early, and perhaps our earliest, Tibetan Gesar bsang (purifying smoke offering) ritual text. The translation is preceded by a discussion of the association between Gesar as a “worldly deity,” and the autochthonous Tibetan rite of smoke purification, and a tentative suggestion concerning Gesar’s role in the “Buddhicisation” of the bsang rite in Eastern T…
Destins divers de l’épopée de Gesar de Ling: Hommage à Rolf A. Stein
Né en Allemagne, Rolf Alfred Stein (1911-1999) se réfugia en France en 1933, où il poursuivit sa formation en études asiatiques auprès des principaux orientalistes de l’époque, notamment Marcel Granet et Henri Maspéro pour la sinologie, Paul Pelliot pour les études mongoles et centre-asiatiques, ainsi que Jacques Bacot et Marcelle Lalou pour les études tibétaines. Sa remarquable polyvalence lui permit de mettre à profit ses talents dans des domai…
The Many Faces of Ling Gesar: A Tribute to Rolf A. Stein
from Kangdze, in Eastern Tibet, may be the earliest known Gesar composition
The Navel of the Demoness: Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in Highland Nepal
This book is a study of religion in a Tibetanised community of highland Nepal. The village of Te, in Mustang District, is nominally Buddhist: until recent times it had a tradition of Sakyapa monasticism, and depends on Nyingmapa tantric priests for ritual and clerical services. However, it also has a thriving cult of territorial divinities involving the performance of animal sacrifices. At first glance, Te appears to be a fundamentally pagan comm…
Sacred Landscape of the Himalaya
Where the mountains can be gods it seems obvious to talk about the sacredness of landscape: The proceedings of an international seminar at Heidelberg in May 1998 present nine case studies covering the entire range of the Himalaya, from Ladakh and Garhwal in India, to Humla and Mustang in Nepal as well as Bhutan. The focus is on space-related architectural and/or anthropological analysis of the built environment and its location in landscape â a t…
The Victory Song of Porong
Temporal Disjunction and Collectivity in Mustang, Nepal
This article examines the uses of timereckoning, temporality, and historical record in the creation of individual and collective identity. The focus is the community of Te, a closed, endogamous settlement in Lo (Mustang), an old Tibetan kingdom in the high Himalayas of Nepal. The inhabitants of Te apply a range of temporal devices to represent their community as a reified entity distinct from the individuals who compose it. The collectivity is se…
Cognitive templates for religious concepts: Cross‐cultural evidence for recall of counter‐intuitive representations
Presents results of free‐recall experiments conducted in France, Gabon and Nepal, to test predictions of a cognitive model of religious concepts. The world over, these concepts include violations of conceptual expectations at the level of domain knowledge (e.g., about ‘animal’ or ‘artifact’ or ‘person’) rather than at the basic level. In five studies we used narratives to test the hypothesis that domain‐level violations are recalled better than o…
Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya
441 p
Temporal Disjunction and Collectivity in Mustang, Nepal
This article examines the uses of timereckoning, temporality, and historical record in the creation of individual and collective identity. The focus is the community of Te, a closed, endogamous settlement in Lo (Mustang), an old Tibetan kingdom in the high Himalayas of Nepal. The inhabitants of Te apply a range of temporal devices to represent their community as a reified entity distinct from the individuals who compose it. The collectivity is se…
Bearers of the Past, Bridges with the Beyond: The Complicated Lives of Ordinary Objects
The emergence of social history within the domain of Tibetan Studies in recent years has been marked by a closer interest in the lives of people who would not usually be the subject of biographical studies. While there is also a Tibetan tradition of writing about the lives of sacred objects that has in turn attracted a certain amount of scholarly interest, the anthropological practice of documenting the histories of everyday artefacts remains rel…
Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya
441 p
Cognitive templates for religious concepts: Cross‐cultural evidence for recall of counter‐intuitive representations
Presents results of free‐recall experiments conducted in France, Gabon and Nepal, to test predictions of a cognitive model of religious concepts. The world over, these concepts include violations of conceptual expectations at the level of domain knowledge (e.g., about ‘animal’ or ‘artifact’ or ‘person’) rather than at the basic level. In five studies we used narratives to test the hypothesis that domain‐level violations are recalled better than o…
The Victory Song of Porong
Temporal Disjunction and Collectivity in Mustang, Nepal
This article examines the uses of timereckoning, temporality, and historical record in the creation of individual and collective identity. The focus is the community of Te, a closed, endogamous settlement in Lo (Mustang), an old Tibetan kingdom in the high Himalayas of Nepal. The inhabitants of Te apply a range of temporal devices to represent their community as a reified entity distinct from the individuals who compose it. The collectivity is se…
Sacred Landscape of the Himalaya
Where the mountains can be gods it seems obvious to talk about the sacredness of landscape: The proceedings of an international seminar at Heidelberg in May 1998 present nine case studies covering the entire range of the Himalaya, from Ladakh and Garhwal in India, to Humla and Mustang in Nepal as well as Bhutan. The focus is on space-related architectural and/or anthropological analysis of the built environment and its location in landscape â a t…
The Navel of the Demoness: Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in Highland Nepal
This book is a study of religion in a Tibetanised community of highland Nepal. The village of Te, in Mustang District, is nominally Buddhist: until recent times it had a tradition of Sakyapa monasticism, and depends on Nyingmapa tantric priests for ritual and clerical services. However, it also has a thriving cult of territorial divinities involving the performance of animal sacrifices. At first glance, Te appears to be a fundamentally pagan comm…
Destins divers de l’épopée de Gesar de Ling: Hommage à Rolf A. Stein
Né en Allemagne, Rolf Alfred Stein (1911-1999) se réfugia en France en 1933, où il poursuivit sa formation en études asiatiques auprès des principaux orientalistes de l’époque, notamment Marcel Granet et Henri Maspéro pour la sinologie, Paul Pelliot pour les études mongoles et centre-asiatiques, ainsi que Jacques Bacot et Marcelle Lalou pour les études tibétaines. Sa remarquable polyvalence lui permit de mettre à profit ses talents dans des domai…
The Many Faces of Ling Gesar: A Tribute to Rolf A. Stein
from Kangdze, in Eastern Tibet, may be the earliest known Gesar composition
An Early Tibetan Gesar sang Text
This article introduces and presents an annotated English translation of what appears to be an early, and perhaps our earliest, Tibetan Gesar bsang (purifying smoke offering) ritual text. The translation is preceded by a discussion of the association between Gesar as a “worldly deity,” and the autochthonous Tibetan rite of smoke purification, and a tentative suggestion concerning Gesar’s role in the “Buddhicisation” of the bsang rite in Eastern T…
Reason against Tradition: An Attempt at Cultural Reform in a Tibetan-speaking Community in Panchayat-Era Nepal
Connexions vibratoires tibétaines: Les effets du son sur les êtres vivants et l’environnement [portfolio]
Au Tibet, les sons peuvent guérir, rendre malade, protéger, défier, apaiser, polluer, purifier, séduire ou même libérer des attachements mondains. Les sons de l'environnement naturel se mêlent aux musiques et aux psalmodies des humains au sein de paysages sonores intimement interconnectés. Alors que les aspects spirituels et les pouvoirs guérisseurs des musiques rituelles bouddhiques ont souvent été décrits, le kaléidoscope des sons naturels et h…
Tibetan vibratory connections: The effects of sound on living things and the environment [portfolio]
In Tibet sounds can heal, make ill, protect, challenge, appease, defile, purify, seduce or even liberate from worldly attachments. Sounds of the natural environment merge with human-made music and chanting in soundscapes that are intimately interconnected. While the spiritual features and healing powers of Buddhist ritual music have been often described, what is perhaps less known is the kaleidoscope of natural and human sounds against which it h…
Signs and Portents in Nature and in Dreams: What They Mean and What Can Be Done about Them
Divination reveals the visible component of an otherwise unseen configuration of forces that might affect our lives for better or for worse. However, in addition to divinatory techniques, there are signs all around us that do not need to be elicited by special methods, if only we knew how to recognize and interpret them. The behavior of wild animals at certain locations and at certain times of day is a particularly good way of discerning what (us…
Bearers of the Past, Bridges with the Beyond: The Complicated Lives of Ordinary Objects
The emergence of social history within the domain of Tibetan Studies in recent years has been marked by a closer interest in the lives of people who would not usually be the subject of biographical studies. While there is also a Tibetan tradition of writing about the lives of sacred objects that has in turn attracted a certain amount of scholarly interest, the anthropological practice of documenting the histories of everyday artefacts remains rel…
Histoire et philologie tibétaines
Programme de l’année 2019-2020 : I. Le culte de la divinité Bonpo gTso mchog mkha’ ‘gying. — II. Matériaux pour l’étude de l’histoire de Porong (sPong rong), une principauté autonome du Tibet méridional, XIVe au XXe siècles (suite). — III. Introduction à l’histoire et aux doctrines de la religion Bon (cours de master)
Introduction to the translation of ‘Some preliminary questions regarding the mdos rituals’ by A-M Blondeau
This landmark study by one of the foremost Tibetologists of our time should perhaps be understood as the second in a trilogy of articles that appeared respectively in 1988, 1990 and 2002. The first, authored jointly with Samten Karmay, was ‘Le cerf à la vaste ramure: en guise d’introduction’ (Deer with large antlers: by way of an introduction) and the third ‘The mKha’ klong gsang mdos: some questions on ritual structure and cosmology’, the only o…
Bon and Naxi Manuscripts
The present volume offers a dozen studies of manuscripts of the Tibetan Bon and Naxi Dongba traditions across time and space. While some of the contributions focus on particular features of manuscripts from either tradition, others explicitly bridge the two by considering common codicological and material aspects of selected examples or common themes in the content of the texts. This is the first primarily object-based study to deal with the cult…
Is cancel culture coming to Himalayan Studies? Remarks on a recent critique of the life and work of Mary Shepherd Slusser
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther King The main purpose of this article by Emiline Smith and Erin L Thompson is ostensibly to proscribe the publication of unprovenanced works of art, particularly from the Kathmandu Valley. Such publications, the authors argue, should be prevented on the grounds that they may increase the value of such items in the illicit art market. The author…
Histoire et philologie tibétaines
Programme des années 2020-2021 et 2021-2022 : I. Le culte de la divinité Bonpo gTso mchog mkha’ ’gying (suite). — II. Matériaux pour l’étude de l’histoire de Porong (sPong rong), une principauté autonome du Tibet méridional, XIVe au XXe siècles (suite)
Taxation in Tibetan Societies: Rules, Practices and Discourses
Histoire et philologie tibétaines
Programme de l’année 2022-2023 : Le culte de la divinité Bonpo gTso mchog mkha’ ’gying (suite)
Light at the End of a Dark Century: The Resurrection of Kyiv’s Khanenko Museum
The volume Art of Asia and the Islamic World. Kyiv: Safran Book, 2023, 352 pp., dedicated to the biggest collection of Asian Art in Ukraine, is under review. The main part of the book is divided into four chapters, devoted to a selection of objects from four different cultural clusters: Hinduism and Buddhism, China, the Islamic world, and Japan. Each section opens with a one-page introduction about the corresponding part of the collection, and ea…
Histoire et philologie tibétaines
Programme de l’année 2023-2025 : I. Récits mythiques dans les rituels tibétains : vers une réconstruction phylomémétique. — II. Découverte d’une principauté himalayenne à partir de ses archives
Art (12 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (7 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Buddhism (5 works) · Geography (5 works)