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Social and Cultural Anthropology, Bhutan (Anthropology), Tibetan Studies, Archeology, Art History, History of Bhutan, and 10 moreOral history, Tibetan Kingship, Marriage Transactions (Anthropology of Kinship), Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, Tibetan Art, Tibet, Tibetan and Himalayan societies, Tibetan Buddhism, Bhutan, and Himalayas edit
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This illustrated volume presents a wide variety of themes from the historical and modern periods of Bhutan, illustrating change and adaptation to new realities.
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August 2004 Covering over 47,000 km2, Bhutan is a kingdom situated on the southern side of the Himalayas and inhabited by around 630,000 people. There has been and still is a strong Tibetan influence in various socio-cultural domains,... more
August 2004 Covering over 47,000 km2, Bhutan is a kingdom situated on the southern side of the Himalayas and inhabited by around 630,000 people. There has been and still is a strong Tibetan influence in various socio-cultural domains, including religion. The study of different aspects of the working-class culture, linguistic data and ecology shows that this country is the cultural and ecological link between Tibet and South-East Asia, not to mention an exceptional repository for Tibeto-Burmes..
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The reach and appeal of Buddhism are its faculty of adaptation to other cultural backgrounds and languages, and its egalitarian view of sentient beings. Taking a cultural anthropology perspective, this paper would like to illustrate the... more
The reach and appeal of Buddhism are its faculty of adaptation to other cultural backgrounds and languages, and its egalitarian view of sentient beings. Taking a cultural anthropology perspective, this paper would like to illustrate the fact that Buddhism as a globalized and multi-faceted religion is not a new phenomenon, and that Tibetan Buddhism’s diffusion in the West is due to different factors.
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t was a beautiful day of October 1999 when Samten arrived in O rgyan chos gling in the sTang Valley of Bum thang. A short but steep walk of 45 minutes took him in full view of the grand mansion sitting at the top of a hillock and... more
t was a beautiful day of October 1999 when Samten arrived in O rgyan chos gling in the sTang Valley of Bum thang. A short but steep walk of 45 minutes took him in full view of the grand mansion sitting at the top of a hillock and dominating the whole sTang valley. Buckwheat fields, pine trees and little hamlets were towered to the North by the cragged summits of the Three Sisters. Prayers flags and chortens dotted the landscape. He had reached a unique place where six centuries of history had taken place in an uninterrupted way. Little did he know that it was the start of a mission which will take him many more times to the top of this hill after a long 11 hours drive from Thimphu. The usual welcoming tea served by impressed ladies for whom Samten was a dge shes from ’Bras spung in Tibet, and therefore worth all the respect. Then the landlady Kunzang Choden, given
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Le Bouthan, petit royaume himalayen, est caracterise par la grande diversite de ses langues. Pour communiquer et creer une identite nationale, le dzongkha, "la langue des forteresses", est adoptee dans les annees 1960. Cette... more
Le Bouthan, petit royaume himalayen, est caracterise par la grande diversite de ses langues. Pour communiquer et creer une identite nationale, le dzongkha, "la langue des forteresses", est adoptee dans les annees 1960. Cette langue de l'ouest du pays est apparentee au tibetain et au dranjoke, la langue du Sikkim. Ce livre presente le pays et une grammaire de dzongkha raisonnee. Il cherche a pallier le manque de documentation pour le public francophone.
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ལེགས་སྦྱར་ནང་ཡོད་པའི་ཚིག་སྡུད་དྲུག་སྟེ། མི་ཟད་པའི་བསྡུ་བ། དེའི་སྐྱེས་བུའི་བསྡུ་བ། ལས་འཛིན་གྱི་བསྡུ་བ། བ་གཉིས་པའི་བསྡུ་བ། འབྲུ་མང་གི་བསྡུ་བ་དང་། ཟླས་དབྱེ་བའི་བསྡུ་བ་བཅས་ཀྱི་དོན་དང་དཔེར་བརྗོད།... more
ལེགས་སྦྱར་ནང་ཡོད་པའི་ཚིག་སྡུད་དྲུག་སྟེ། མི་ཟད་པའི་བསྡུ་བ། དེའི་སྐྱེས་བུའི་བསྡུ་བ། ལས་འཛིན་གྱི་བསྡུ་བ། བ་གཉིས་པའི་བསྡུ་བ། འབྲུ་མང་གི་བསྡུ་བ་དང་། ཟླས་དབྱེ་བའི་བསྡུ་བ་བཅས་ཀྱི་དོན་དང་དཔེར་བརྗོད། དེ་དང་ཆ་མཐུན་པ་བོད་སྐད་དུ་གང་ཡོད་པ་རྣམས་གསལ་སྟོན་བྱས་ནས། ཚིག་སྡུད་དྲུག་འདི་རྩ་བའི་ཚིག་སྡུད་བཞི་རུ་བསྡུ་ཚུལ་དང་། དེའི་སྟེང་ཚིག་སྡུད་ཁོ་ན་ཞེས་པ་བསྣན་ནས་རྩ་བའི་ཚིག་སྡུད་ལྔ་རུ་དབྱེ་བའི་ཁུངས་རྣམས་གསལ་བར་བསྟན་ཡོད་དོ།།
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This paper examines the 4th King's reign in a Bhutanese and Buddhist perspective as well as the symbolism surrounding the monarchy.
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Heart failure (HF) is a rising epidemic and public health burden in modern society. It is of great need to find new biomarkers to ensure a timely diagnosis and to improve treatment and prognosis of the disease. The mouse model of HF was... more
Heart failure (HF) is a rising epidemic and public health burden in modern society. It is of great need to find new biomarkers to ensure a timely diagnosis and to improve treatment and prognosis of the disease. The mouse model of HF was established by thoracic aortic constriction. Color Doppler ultrasound was performed to detect left ventricular end-diastolic diameter. Hematoxylin and eosin staining was conducted to observe the pathological changes of mouse myocardium. The RT-qPCR analysis was performed to detect miR-590-5p and RTN4 expression levels. Western blot was conducted to detect protein levels of the indicated genes. We found that the expression of miR-590-5p was downregulated in cardiac tissues of HF mice. Injection of AAV-miR-590-5p attenuated myocardium hypertrophy and myocyte apoptosis. Additionally, miR-590-5p overexpression promoted viability, inhibited apoptosis, and decreased ANF, BNP and beta-MHC protein levels in H9c2 cell. Mechanistically, miR-590-5p binds to RTN4 3'-untranslated region, as predicted by starBase online database and evidenced by luciferase reporter assay. Furthermore, miR-590-5p negatively regulates RTN4 mRNA expression and suppresses its translation. The final rescue experiments revealed that miR-590-5p modulated cardiomyocyte phenotypes by binding to RTN4. In conclusion, miR-590-5p modulates myocardium hypertrophy and myocyte apoptosis in HF by downregulating RTN4.
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A scholarly bi-annual publication on the social, cultural and economic aspects of Bhutan.
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In Bhutan, one hears of btsan, dge bsnyen, yul lha, "nep" (gnas pa), gter bdag and gzhi bdag. These deities, which play an important role in the lives of the Bhutanese, live in sacred places, often mountains and have to be... more
In Bhutan, one hears of btsan, dge bsnyen, yul lha, "nep" (gnas pa), gter bdag and gzhi bdag. These deities, which play an important role in the lives of the Bhutanese, live in sacred places, often mountains and have to be propitiated by the people at regular intervals. However, it was never particularly clear to me what these names referred to exactly, and how these deities related to one another. In this paper, I would like to present some preliminary remarks on Bhutanese material related to mountain and local deities, and at the same time try to place them in the more general context of methodology and classification.
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This illustrated volume presents a wide variety of themes from the historical and modern periods of Bhutan, illustrating change and adaptation to new realities. Topics covered include the exploration of early history, Buddhism and the... more
This illustrated volume presents a wide variety of themes from the historical and modern periods of Bhutan, illustrating change and adaptation to new realities. Topics covered include the exploration of early history, Buddhism and the lives of Bhutanese Buddhist saints, the changing role of local, non-Buddhist religious practitioners in today's society, traditional law and the emergence of a modern legal system, and the seasonal celebrations of an aristocratic family from central Bhutan. The book will be of special interest to students of early Tibetan history, legal history, comparative sociology and cultural anthropology of the Himalayan regions.
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Le Bhoutan est un petit royaume himalayen qui sort peu à peu de l'oubli et connaît un certain renom sur la scène internationale à cause de son tourisme et du concept du « Bonheur National Brut » (BNB). En fait un de ses titres de gloire... more
Le Bhoutan est un petit royaume himalayen qui sort peu à peu de l'oubli et connaît un certain renom sur la scène internationale à cause de son tourisme et du concept du « Bonheur National Brut » (BNB). En fait un de ses titres de gloire est certainemnet la grande diversité de ses langues (19), sur un territoire plus petit que la Suisse et une population de 700 000 habitants. Ses langues font toutes partie de la famille linguistique tibéto-birmane, sauf le népalais qui appartient à la famille indo-européenne. Pour communiquer dans une telle diversité et créer une identité nationale, la langue nationale, adoptée dans les années 1960, est le dzongkha, « la langue des forteresses », langue de l'ouest du pays apparentée au tibétain et au dränjoke, la langue du Sikkim. Toutefois, malgré une proximité linguistique certaine et de nombreux emprunts de termes religieux bouddhiques au tibétain, ces langues sont mutuellement inintelligibles. Aujourd'hui, hormis au Bhoutan et à l'université de Berne, le dzongkha n'est enseigné par aucune institution académique dans le monde, malgré un intérêt croissant pour ce pays et sa langue nationale. Ce livre, qui présente le pays et une grammaire du dzongkha raisonnée, cherche à pallier le manque de documentation pour le public francophone. Les fichiers audio qui accompagnent le livre «Parlons dzongkha» sont disponibles ici.
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Ajánlások: Karma Phuntsho, Francoise Pommaret, Jaksity György, Szegedi Mónika, Zsolnai László
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Proceedings of the XIth IATS Oxford 2003. collection of essays from the Bhutan Panel