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October 24, 2006

Elliot Sperling

  Host Lisa Morrison interviews Elliot Sperling, chair of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. His current research interest is Tibetan history and Sino-Tibetan relations. His […]
July 11, 2002

Some Considerations on the Tibet Issue

Statement by Elliot Sperling, Associate Professor of Tibetan Studies and Chair, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, June 10, 2002 I […]
December 31, 2001

“Orientalism” and Aspects of Violence in the Tibetan Tradition

The dragon year of 1640-41, as described by the Fifth Dalai Lama in his autobiography, was marked by some rather unsettling events. Problems the Gelugpa (dGe […]
December 31, 2000

The 1913 Tibeto-Mongol Treaty: its International Reception and Circulation

Alas, Compatriots! Mongolia and Tibet are surely lost! Dismemberment is now surely in front of our very eyes. It is surely the end of our 5,000 […]