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.