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Deborah Klimburg-Salter is University Professor for Asian Art History at the University of Vienna. Her books include Tabo, A Lamp for the Kingdom: Early Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Art in the Western Himalaya and The Kingdom of Bamiyan: Buddhist Art and Culture of the Hindu Kush. She is Director of the project “The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya from the Eighth Century,” funded by the Austrian Science Fund, and was named “Austrian of the Year, 2007, in Science.”

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	Janet Gyatso is Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Her books include Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary; In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism; and Women of Tibet.
	Marylin Rhie is Jessie Wells Post Professor of Art and East Asian Studies at Smith College. She co-authored Wisdom and Compassion, The Sacred Art of Tibet, and Worlds of Transformation and has recently published vols. I and II of her on-going series Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia.
	E. Gene Smith is co-founder of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center, a project dedicated to the preservation of the Tibetan literary heritage by digital means. He is the author of Among Tibetan Texts: History and Literature of the Himalayan Plateau. He has studied in the U.S., Europe, and India, and worked for many years for the Library of Congress in India (as field director), Jakarta, and Cairo.