Kailash: Journal of Himalayan Studies

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Summary: Kailash (Journal of Himalayan Studies) is a scholarly publication focusing on the history and anthropology of the Himalayan region. It began in 1973 and is printed on traditional rice paper in Kathmandu, Nepal, by Ratna Pustak Bhandar. This interdisciplinary journal is published quarterly but is difficult to acquire, with only a few university libraries having a complete set.

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+ Volume 1, Number 1 (1973)

. Editorial

. A Nepalese Copper-Plate from the Time of Prithvinarayan's Father

. Five Nyingmapa Lamas in Sikkim

. Bonpo Studies: The A Khrid system of Meditation (Part 1)

. Prêtres Limbu et catègories domestiques

. Ram Shah's reign: a discussion

. Cooch Behar and Bhutan in the Context of the Tibetan Trade

. A Note on a Nepalese Image of Surya-Narayana

. Vie et chants de 'Brug-pa Kun-legs Le Yogin: A Review

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 1, Number 2 (1973)

. Editorial

. Recently Discovered Inscriptions of Licchavi Nepal

. Notes on the Hayu Language

. Buddhist Tantric Medicine Theory

. Buddhist Tantric Medicine Theory

. Slave Trade on the Indo-Nepal Border in the Nineteenth Century

. Mantras on the Prayer Flag

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 1, Number 3 (1973)

. The ruins of the former capital of Mithila in the Terai of Nepal

. Etude de la fabrication d'une statue au Nepal

. The Tibetan and Newar Buddhists: Ceremonial medicine

. Structure and division in Kulung or Kulunge Rai society

. The Lama and the General

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 1, Number 4 (1973)

. Editorial

. Bonpo Studies: The A Khrid system of Meditation (Part II)

. The Thakuris of Diyargaun: A review

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 2, Number 1-2 (1974)

. The Art of Nicholas Roerich

. Works on Lahaul and Spiti

. The Evolution of Devanagari Script (Devanagari Lipiko Vikas)

. The clan history of the Sherpas

. A Review of Basohli style in Indian Painting

+ Volume 2, Number 3 (1974)

. The Role of the Priest in Sunuwar Society

. Investigation into the Kumari

. Balkrishna Sama

. The 100 Verses of Advice of the Jetsun Padampa Sangyes

. Central Khams Tibetan: A Phonemic Survey

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 2, Number 4 (1974)

. The Raute: Notes on a Nomadic Hunting and Gathering Tribe of Nepal

. The Organizing Principles of Gurung Kinship

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 3, Number 1 (1975)

. The History of Nepal (Part I)

. The Svamgu Loham in Bhaktapur (Study of the Newar Concept of Space)

. Two Letters From Ranga Nath Pandit to B.H. Hodgson

. Short Reviews (Tibetan medicine)

+ Volume 3, Number 2 (1975)

. A Little Read Guide to the Holy Places of Nepal: Part I

. Plant Names in Khaling: A Study in Ethnobotany and Village Economy

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 3, Number 3 (1975)

. An Account of Nepal from the Vir Vinod of Shyamaldas

. A Note on 'Chi' of the Rong or Lepcha of Sikkim

. On a Small Dragonfly Collection from Nepal

. A Demographic and Nutritional Survey of two Villages in the Upper Rolwaling Valley

. Some Aspects of Dharmakirti's Ontology Reconsidered

+ Volume 3, Number 4 (1975)

. The Nyingma Icons: Line drawings of 94 dieties and divinities of Tibet

+ Volume 4, Number 1 (1976)

. Terminalia Chebula in Ayurveda and Tibetan Medical Literature

. A Chronology of the Later Kings of Patan

. The Relations Between Kathmandu and Palpa in the Rana Period

. Preliminary Remarks on Some Tibetan 'Spirit-Mediums' in Nepal

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 4, Number 2 (1976)

. Tashi Gompa—A Nunnery in Nepal

. Views from the Monastery Kitchen: Fieldwork with Tibetan Monks and Nuns

. Limbu Women, Divorce, and the Domestic Cycle

. The Tij-Rishi Panchami Women's Festival

+ Volume 4, Number 3 (1976)

. The Nepali System of Honorific Registers

. The Restoration of the Cyaslim Mandap in Bhaktapur

. A Review of Opuscula Tibetana

. Concise Tibetan Grammar and Reader

. A Survey of Tibetan Pigments

. An Introduction to the Socio-Economic Structure of Manang District

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 4, Number 4 (1976)

. Encounter with the Raute: the last hunting nomads of Nepal

. Le Si Kã Bheãy, 'Festin de la Tete' chez les Newar

. A Wishing Prayer

. A Settlement and Smithy of the Blacksmiths (Kami) in Nepal

. Seminar of Young Tibetologists

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 5, Number 1 (1977)

. A Guide to Swayambhu (translated from the Nepali)

. Folk Art and Culture Change as Observed in a Khaling Village

. The Royal Edicts of King Rama Shah of Gorkha

. Imagination or Reality: Mysticism and Explorers in Tibet

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 5, Number 2 (1977)

. A Short Notice on Bhutan and the Bhutanese

. The history of The Thakaali According to the Thakaali Tradition

. Broad, Noeticness and Other Guentheriana

+ Volume 5, Number 3 (1977)

. Jamyang Khyentse's Brief Discourse on the Essence of All the Ways

. An Ethnographic Note on Nar-Phu Valley

. The Goddess Saraswati from India to Tibet

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 5, Number 4 (1977)

. The Hagiography of Nagarjuna

. Study of Caste Concepts and Nepal's Old Legal Code

. Theravada Buddhism in Nepal

. The Dards and the Literature of the North-Western Himalaya

+ Volume 6, Number 1 (1978)

. The history of Khembalung: The Hidden Valley

. Some Interesting Nepalese Rust Fungi

. Religion in Tibetan Society - A New Approach

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 6, Number 2 (1978)

. The tradition of the Nava Durga in Bhaktapur, Nepal

. Religion in Tibetan Society: A New Approach

. Trente Conseils Donnés du Coeur Par Gyalwa Longchenpa

. Nepali Cooking: A Short Essay including Recipes

. Notes on Marriage and the Status of Women in Baragaon

+ Volume 6, Number 3 (1978)

. The Tamang Sub-family of Tibeto-Burman

. The Local Oral Tradition about the Kingdom of Thin Garab Dzong

. Notes on the History of Serib, and Nearby Places in the Upper Kali Gandaki Valley

+ Volume 6, Number 4 (1978)

. Notes on Chusya-Bahal in Kathmandu

. Sewala Puja Bintila Puja: Notes on Thulung Ritual Language

. The Disappearance and Reappearance of Janakpur

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 7, Number 1 (1979)

. Origin of the Avalokitesvara of Potala

. Notes on a Nepalese Thanka

. A Visit of Prince Waldemar of Prussia to Nepal

. The Play Lokanandanataka by Candragomin

+ Volume 7, Number 2 (1979)

. Place of the Pilgrimage in Thag (Thakkhola)

+ Volume 7, Number 3-4 (1979)

. What we social scientists owe to Sylvain Levi

. Kinship Terminologies of the Sino-Tibetan Speaking Peoples

. A Note on the Phaguwaa Festival of Chitwan Tharu

. A Translation of a Newari Version of the Chanakya Sara Samgraha

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 8, Number 1-2 (1981)

. Linguistic Archaeology of the Nepal Valley, Preliminary Report

. Tibetan Yungdrung (g-Yung-Drung) Monastery at Dolanji

. The Women of Tebas, Feminine Perspectives in Gurung Culture

. Maithili Language and Linguistics: Some Background Notes

. The Use of Officinal Plants Among the Lama People of Yol-mo

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 8, Number 3-4 (1981)

. Women in Nyinba Society

. Tharus of Dang: The People and the Social Context

. A Buddhist Guide to the Power Places of the Kathmandu Valley

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 9, Number 1 (1982)

. Miteri in Nepal: Fictive Kin Ties That Bind

. The Case of the Thakalis of Dhaulagiri Zone

. Tharus of Dang: Tharu Religion

. Letter of First Westerner to Visit Bhutan-Tibet-Nepal

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 9, Number 2-3 (1982)

. A Pilgrimage to Amarnath: The Hindus' Search for Immortality

. Social Process on the Hindu Pilgrimage to Muktinath

. Two 12 Year Festivals In The Thak Khola

. Tharus of Dang: Rites de Passage and Festivals

. Microsphaera Grossulariae (Wallroth) Lev.

. Biochemical Analysis of Some Members of Aspidiaceae and Athyriaceae

. Lachnella Subfalcispora Reid (Cyphellaceae)

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 9, Number 4 (1982)

. The Thakalis as Buddhists and their Death Ceremonies

. Death Customs in Ladakh

. Status and Death: Mortuary Rites and Attitudes to the Body in a Tibetan Village

. The Cremation Ceremony According to the Byang-Gter Tradition

. Death and Kin Amongst the Northern Magar

+ Volume 10, Number 1-2 (1983)

. The 12-Year Festivals in the Thak Kola

. The Land System of the Licchavis in Nepal

. Bhotia Highlanders of Nar and Phu

. Tibetans in Karnataka

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 10, Number 3-4 (1983)

. The Wild Boar and the Plough: Origin Stories of the Northern Magar

. The Gurung Priest as Bard

. The Founding of a Tibetan Village: The Popular Transformation of History

+ Volume 11, Number 1-2 (1984)

. TIbetan Birth and Marriage Ceremonies

. Tamang Art: A Parallel Style in the Tantric Buddhist Art of Nepal

. Some Native Medicinal Plants of the Western Gurung

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 11, Number 3-4 (1984)

. The Goddess Vatsala—her Temple and Yatra (festival procession)

. Miscellanea to a Recent Contribution on/to the Bsam-Yas Debate

. The Classifier Construction of Newari and its Historical Southeast Asian Background

. Resources and Population Among the Gurungs: 1958-1980

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 12, Number 1-2 (1985)

. The Guthi Organisations of Dhulikhel Shresthas

. Herding and Socio-Economic Change Among Khumbu Sherpas

. Ritual Practice and Group Maintenance in the Thakali of Central Nepal

. Limbu Kinship Terminology: A Description

+ Volume 12, Number 3-4 (1985)

. The House, Ritual and Politics in East Nepal

. Images of the Hindu Fierce Mother Goddess and Experiences of Mother

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 13, Number 1-2 (1987)

. The Bem-chag Village Record and The Early History of Mustang District

. A God's Journey: The Parheli of the God Lama From Lekhpur (SIJA)

. A Phonological Justification of Newar Child Vocabulary

+ Volume 13, Number 3-4 (1987)

. The Nyishangba of Manang (Geographical Perspectives)

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 14, Number 1-2 (1988)

. The Shaman's Cure and the Layman's Interpretation

. Identification of the Duras of West Nepal

. China's Reforms of Tibet, and their Effect on Pastorialism

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 14, Number 3-4 (1988)

. Ancient and Medieval Nepal (Part 1)

. A History of the Thak Khola Valley, Nepal

. The Paharis: In Quest of an Identity

. The Development of Modern Contemporary Art in Nepal

+ Volume 15, Number 1-2 (1989)

. Titles Traditionally Used by Sakyas in the Kathmandu Valley

. Ancient and Medieval Nepal (Part 2)

. Chinese Maps and Prints on the Tibet-Gorkha War of 1788-92

. The Monetisation of Nepal in the Seventeenth Century

+ Volume 15, Number 3-4 (1989)

. Establishing the National Unity and Identity of Nepal

. Reflections of Political Change in Modern Nepali Literature

. Love and Marriage in Modern Nepali Literature

. The Language, Literature, and Cultural Identity of the Tamang

. Gurung Identity in a Period of Rapid Change

. The Mythology of the Tharu

. Gurung Music and Cultural Identity

. Aspects of Identity Among Newar Gods and Men

+ Volume 16, Number 1-2 (1990)

. Bhaktapur: Nepal's Capital of Music and Dance

. Uku Bahah—The Earliest Dated Document in Newari

. Hindu Healing Practice: The Case of a Kali-possessed Woman

. Ancient and Medieval Nepal (Part 3)

+ Volume 16, Number 3-4 (1990)

. Tantric Buddhist Pilgrimage Sites in Tibet

. The Badi: Prostitution as a Social Norm Among an Untoucable Caste of West Nepal

. The Case of Tibetan Refugees' Community in Nepal

+ Volume 17, Number 1-2 (1995)

. French Contributions to Himalayan and Tibetan Studies

. The Pancai Baja and Traditional Nepalese Music

. The Baja Guthi of Badikhel

. Patterns of Religious Belief in a Buddhist Merchant Community, Nepal

. The Water-spirits and the Position of Women among the Sherpa

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 17, Number 3-4 (1995)

. Blood and Territory as Idioms of National Identity in Himalayan States

. Contestations of Legitimacy in Tamang Celebrations of Dasa

. The Horse Book of the Prince of Jharkot

. The Tibetan Medical Tradition, and Tibetan Approaches to Healing In the Contemporary World

. The Anthropology of the Tharus: An Annoted Bibliography

+ Volume 18, Number 1-2 (1996)

. The Cult of Mount Murdo in Gyalrong

. Yak-keeping in High Asia

. The Discourse and Practice of Kipat

. Stag-Tshang Ras-Pa's Exceptional Life as a Pilgrim

. Short Reviews

+ Volume 18, Number 3-4 (1996)

. An Account of Padma-Bkod: A Hidden Land in Southeastern Tibet

. Lay Religious Movements in 11th and 12th Century Tibet

. Commemorating the Goddess Durga's Victory Over the Demon Mahisa as a Political Act

. Ladakhi Temples of the 13th-14th

. Scapula Cosmography and Divination in Tibet

. The Lineage of the Nobel House of Ga-Zi in East Tibet

+ Volume 19, Number 1-2 (2000)

. Pre-Buddhist Archaeological Sites In Northern Tibet

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