Katia Buffetrille is a

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ethnologist Ethnology (from the , meaning 'nation') is an academic field and discipline that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology). Scien ...

and

tibetologist Tibetology () refers to the study of things related to Tibet, including its history, religion, language, culture, politics and the collection of Tibetan articles of historical, cultural and religious significance. The last may mean a collection of ...

. She works at the

École pratique des hautes études The (), abbreviated EPHE, is a French postgraduate top level educational institution, a . EPHE is a constituent college of the Université PSL (together with ENS Ulm, Paris Dauphine or Ecole des Mines). The college is closely linked to É ...

(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 Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups s ...

and

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

, researching pilgrimage, non-Buddhist beliefs, and sacred geography. She is in charge of a seminar on rituals at the CRCAO (Centre de recherches sur les civilisations de l'Asie orientale; 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'', * 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. * 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 ?'' * 2012: ''Revisiting rituals in a changing Tibetan context'' (ed.). Leiden: Brill, 2012. *

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Katia Buffetrille
(EPHE) {{DEFAULTSORT:Buffetrille, Katia Tibetologists French ethnologists Academic staff of the University of Paris Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études 1948 births Living people