The Treasury of Lives

Jann Ronis is Executive Director of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2009.

Published May 2013

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Chayet, Anne. 1993. La Femme au Temps des Dalaï-Lamas. Paris: Editions Stock-L. Pernoud.

Garje Khamtrul Rinpoche, Jamyang Döndrup. 2009. Memories of Lost and Hidden Lands: The Life Story of Garje Khamtrul Rinpoche. Dharamsala, Dist. Kangra, H.P.: Chime Gatsel Ling.

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Ronis, Jann. 2009. “Revelations, Scholasticism, and Celibacy: Contestation and Synthesis in the Growth of Monasticism at Katok Gompa from the 17th through 20th Centuries.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia.

Ronis, Jann. 2011. "Powerful Women in the History of Degé: Reassessing the Eventful Reign of the Dowager Queen Tsewang Lhamo (d. 1812)." Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, no. 21, pp. 61-81.

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