Publications

Mills, M. (2007). “King Srong btsan sGam po’s Mines – Wealth Accumulation and Religious Asceticism in Buddhist Tibet”. Tibet Journal, Vol. XXXI (4): 89-106.
------, “Re-Assessing The Supine Demoness: Royal Buddhist Geomancy in the rGyal Rab gSal ba’i Me long”. Journal of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 1(3).
------, in press. (2007). “Small Shoes and Painted Faces: Possession States and Embodiment in Buddhist Ladakh”. In Pirie, F. & J. Bray (eds.) Recent Research in Ladakh, Vol. 10.
------, in press. “The Two-Dimensional Monk: Monasticism and Householding in Tibetan Buddhism”. In Herrou, A. & G. Krauskopff (eds.), La Vie Monastique Dans Le Miroir De La Parenté. Maison de L'Archéologie et de L'Ethnologie Université Nanterre. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Toulouse le Mirail.
------, in press (2006). “The Silence in Between:Governmentality And The Academic Voice In Tibetan Diaspora Studies”. In Unnithan, M. & G. de Neve (eds.), Critical Journeys: the making of Modern Anthropologists. London: Ashgate.
------, 2005. “Living in Time’s Shadow: Pollution, Purification and Fractured Temporalities in Buddhist Ladakh”. In Mills, D. & W. Young (eds.) Qualities of Time: Temporal Dimensions of Social Form and Human Experience. (ASA 2002 Monograph). Berg.
------, 2005. “Funerary Practices in Tibet”. In Davies, D. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Cremation. Ashgate Publishing.
------, 2003. “This Turbulent Priest: Three Views of Human Rights and the State in the Tibetan Shugden Controversy”. In Mitchell, J. & R. Wilson (eds.) Human Rights in Global Perspective: Anthropological Studies of Rights, Claims and Entitlements. Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd; ISBN: 0415304105.
------, 2003. Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority in Gelukpa Monasticism. Tantric Traditions Series. London: Routledge-Curzon Press. ISBN: 0 7007 1470 7.
------, 2000. “Vajra-Brother, Vajra-Sister: Renunciation, Individualism and the Household in Tibetan Buddhist Monasticism”. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 6(1); ISSN: 0025-1496.
------, 2000. “Gelukpa Lineages”. Entry in The Encyclopaedia of Monasticism. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publications; ISBN: 1-57958-090-4.
------, 2000. “Ladakh, India”. Entry in The Encyclopaedia of Monasticism. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publications; ISBN: 1-57958-090-4.
------, 2000. “Buddhist Liturgy”. Entry in The Encyclopaedia of Monasticism. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publications; ISBN: 1-57958-090-4.
------, 1998. “Belief and the Priest: Religious Reform in Buddhist Ladakh”. In The Scottish Journal of Religious Studies, 19(2): 167-185; ISSN:
------, 1998. “The Presence of the Teacher: Incarnate Lamas in Tibetan Buddhism”. In Cosmos - Journal of the Traditional Cosmology Society.
------, 1997. Religious Authority and Pastoral Care in Tibetan Buddhism: The Ritual Hierarchies of Lingshed Monastery, Ladakh. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Edinburgh.
------, 1997. “The Religion of Locality: Local Area Gods and the Characterisation of Tibetan Buddhism”. In Dodin, T. & H. Räther (eds.) Recent Research on Ladakh 7. Proceedings of the 7th Colloquium of the International Association for Ladakh Studies, Bonn/St.Augustin, 12-15 June, 1995: pp.309-328. Ulmer Kulturanthropologishe Schriften Band 9. Ulm: Universität Ulm. ISBN: 3930983060.
------, 1996. “Notes on the History of Lingshed Monastery, Ladakh”. In Ladakh Studies 8. Journal for the International Association for Ladakh Studies; ISSN: 1356-3491.

Biography

Martin A. Mills is a social anthropologist at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research. Specialising in the study of Tibetan societies and religions, his research interests also include the comparative study of religious polities and the cognitive psychology of religion. He is author of Identity, Ritual and State in Tibetan Buddhism (RoutledgeCurzon Press) and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth.