Katia Buffetrille [SEP] native language
Katia Buffetrille
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
Autonomy". In: "Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions". Edited by Anne-Marie Blondeau and Katia Buffetrille. University of California Press. (cloth); (paper).
- Goldstein, Melvyn C. "The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama" (1997) University of California Press.
- Goldstein, Melvyn C. "A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3: The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955-1957" (University of California