Publications

Peer-Reviewed Academic Publications

Rekjong, Dhondup T. & Wallace, Darcie Price. “Contemporary Tibetan Music: blazing the path of religious, cultural, and political devotion” In The Journal of Culture and Religion, 2025.

Rekjong, Dhondup T. “The Forgotten History of the Dalai Lama’s Autobiography: Secular, Oral and Transnational Stories.” In The Journal of Contemporary Buddhism, 2025.

Rekjong, Dhondup T. “Centering Native Languages in Western Scholarship.” In The Journal of Critical Asian Studies, 2024.

Rekjong, Dhondup T. “Pema Tseden” in The Treasure of Lives: a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region, 2023.

Rekjong, Dhondup T. “Sungrab Gyatso” in The Treasury of lives: a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region, 2023.

Rekjong, Dhondup T. “Samten Gyatso” in The Treasury of Lives: a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region, 2022.

Public Scholarship

Rekjong, Dhondup T. “How Buddhism Met Science: A Monastic Scholar’s Journey – Lion’s Roar.” Accessed December 21, 2023. https://www.lionsroar.com/monastic-scholars-journey/

Rekjong, Dhondup T. “The Rainbow Path of Many Hues” by Pema Bhum: Book Review in High Peaks Pure Earth, July 05, 2023. https://highpeakspureearth.com/the-rainbow-path-of-many-hues-by-pema-bhum-book-review-by-dhondup-t-rekjong/

Rekjong, Dhondup T. “Destruction and Rebuilding: Two Years in the Life of a Tibetan Monk – Lion’s Roar.” Accessed November 18, 2022. https://www.lionsroar.com/destruction-and-rebuilding-two-years-in-the-life-of-a-tibetan-monk/

Rekjong, Dhondup T. “I Never Gave Up on Dharma: Ngakpa Kalzang’s Journey from Tibet – Lion’s Roar.” Accessed May 10, 2022. https://www.lionsroar.com/i-never-gave-up-on-dharma-ngakpa-kalzangs-journey-from-tibet/

Rekjong, Dhondup T. “Why Is the Dalai Lama so quiet on China?” Chicago Tribune. Accessed January 20, 2022. https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-dalai-lama-china-tibet-human-rights-20220120-yse5wclg7bg3pfvts4syaupxr4-story.html

Rekjong, Dhondup T. “Xi Jinping’s War on Tibetan Buddhism.” Wall Street Journal, November 18, 2021, Opinion. https://www.wsj.com/articles/xi-jinping-war-on-tibetan-buddhism-lanugage-china-monks-education-unity-sixth-plenum-11637269866

Academic Book Reviews

Rekjong, Dhondup T. “Singer of the Land of Snows: Shabkar, Buddhism, and Tibetan National Identity by Rachel H. Pang” in The Journal of Religion, forthcoming, 2025.

Rekjong, Dhondup T. “Searching for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra by Rae Erin Dachille” in The Journal of Asian Studies, 2024.

Rekjong, Dhondup T. “Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China by Nicole Willock” in The Journal of Asian Studies, 2022.