This is the seventh issue of the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, edited by Karl Debreczeny and released in July, 2013. This issue focuses on the influential eighteenth-century Tibetan cultural figure Situ Penchen Chökyi Jungné (si tu paN chen chos kyi 'byung gnas, 1700-1774). (Steven Weinberger 2013-07-20)
<b>Situ Penchen Articles:</b> "Si tu paṇ chen and the House of Sde dge: A Demanding but Beneficial Relationship" / Rémi Chaix -- "Si tu paṇ chen's Artistic Legacy in 'Jang" / Karl Debreczeny -- "Mercury, Mad Dogs, and Smallpox: Medicine in the Si tu paṇ chen Tradition" / Frances Garrett -- "Purity in the Pudding and Seclusion in the Forest: Situ Penchen, Monastic Ideals, and the Buddha's Biographies" / Nancy Lin -- "The Prolific Preceptor: Situ paṇ chen's Career as Ordination Master in Khams and Its Effect on Sectarian Relations in Sde dge" / Jann Ronis -- "Si tu paṇ chen on Scholarship" / Kurtis R. Schaeffer -- "Si tu paṇ chen chos kyi 'byung gnas in History: A Brief Note" / Elliot Sperling -- "Si tu paṇ chen and His Painting Style: A Retrospective" / Tashi Tsering -- "Notes Apropos to the Oeuvre of Si tu paṇ chen Chos kyi 'byung gnas (1699?-1774) (4): A Tibetan Sanskritist in Nepal" / Peter Verhagen
<b>Other Articles:</b>
"Arriving Ahead of Time: The Ma 'das sprul sku and Issues of Sprul sku Personhood" / Marcia S. Calkowski -- "The Significant Leap from Writing to Print: Editorial Modification in the First Printed Edition of the Collected Works of Sgam po pa bsod nams rin chen" / Ulrich Timme Kragh -- "In the Hidden Valley of the White Conch: The Inscription of a Bhutanese Pure Land" / Bryan Phillips
<b>Book Reviews:</b> "Review of <i>A Noble Noose of Methods, The Lotus Garland Synopsis: A Mahāyoga Tantra and Its Commentary</i>, by Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer" / Giacomella Orofino