Uradyn E. Bulag is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College - the City University of New York. He is the author of Nationalism and Hybridity in Mongolia (Clarendon 1998) and The Mongols at China's Edge (Rowman & Littlefield 2002). Hildegard Diemberger, is one of the directors of the Mongolian and Inner Asia Studies Unit of the University of Cambridge and is also a research associate at the Austrian Academy of Science and a member of the Italian Ev-K2-CNR Committee. Together with Pasang Wangdu she is the author of Shel dkar chos 'byung - History and Politics in Southern Tibet (Vienna 1996) and dBa' bzhed - The Royal Narrative Concerning the Bringing of the Buddha's Doctrine to Tibet (Vienna 2000).