The Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (JIATS) ISSN

International Standard Serial Number

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  is a freely available online, peer-reviewed English language

English language

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 focusing on Tibetan studies

Tibetology

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. JIATS is an official publication of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS), the association that organizes the world’s major academic conference for Tibetan Studies, the results of which are published in the Proceedings of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (PIATS

PIATS

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) series.

JIATS is hosted by the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library

Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library

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 (THDL) and, since it is part of an online digital library, articles and submissions can incorporate digital content such as maps, audio recordings, images, and video. JIATS is not published in a print version

The current Editors-in-Chief of JIATS are: José Ignacio Cabezón (University of California

University of California

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, Santa Barbara) and David Germano (University of Virginia

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, Charlottesville).