Articles: Ruth Gamble, “Looking over at the Mountains”: Sense of place in the Third Karmapa’s “Songs of Experience”; Tiina Hyytiäinen, Repkong Tantric Practitioners and Their Environment: Observing the vow of not taking life; Klaus Karttunen, Toes and Heels Tormented by Hardened Snow; Pekka Lehtisalo, Holy Grounds: Landscapes in Tibetan thangka paintings; Nakza Drolma (Zhuoma), Pilgrimage to Brag dkar sprel rdzong: Presentation and translation of a pilgrimage guide; Juha-Pekka Reilin, The Main Factors of Biodiversity Changes in East Tibet; Thupten K. Rikey, The Nature-Deities of Tibet: A discussion on the tale “The Subduing and Putting under Oath of Tibet’s Malignant lha ‘dre” in Padma bka’ thang; Reena Amatya Shrestha, Xiang Huang & Mika Sillanpää, Effects of Urbanization on Water Quality of the Bagmati River in Katmandu Valley, Nepal; Jaakko Takkinen, Medicine in India and Tibet – Reflections on Buddhism and nature; Pilvi Vainonen, Making Museum Collections: Missionary Hilja Heiskanen’s Himalayan artefacts; Riika J. Virtanen, Dhondup Gyal and Nature: Interpreting poetic images of wind and cloud in two Tibetan works; Juha Janhunen, Correctness and Controversies in Asian Historiography.
