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Katia Buffetrille

b. 1948

French tibetologist

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Born 1948. Katia Buffetrille is a French tibetologist and anthropologist.

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 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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Important facts

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Tibetologist, anthropologist
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Education
Paris Nanterre University
Employers
École pratique des hautes études

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Katia Buffetrille?

French tibetologist

When was Katia Buffetrille born?

Katia Buffetrille was born on 2 August 1948 in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc.

What is Katia Buffetrille's occupation?

Katia Buffetrille is a tibetologist and anthropologist.

What nationality is Katia Buffetrille?

Katia Buffetrille is French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Katia Buffetrille

· Wikidata: Q2329735

· DBpedia: Katia Buffetrille

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