Tsering Chotsho is a scholar in Tibet.

Paul Bryan Donnelly is a doctoral candidate in the Buddhist studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying with Geshe Lhundup Sopa of Sera Je monastery. He spent the 1995-96 academic year in India on a Fulbright grant during which time he studied at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath and also in Dharamsala. He is working on Tsong kha pa's commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika. the Rig pa'i rgya mtsho.

Kim Gutschow (M.A.) is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University, writing a dissertation on Zanskari nuns. Her publications include: 1994, "View From a Nunnery Rooftop," Ladags Melong. Vol.1(1); 1995, "The Power of Compassion or The Power of Rhetoric?: A Report on Sakyadhita's 4th International Conference on Buddhist Women," Himal, Vol.8 (6); in press, "Kinship in Zangskar: Idiom and Practice," forthcoming in the Recent Research on Ladakh 5: Proceedings of the 5th Colloquium on Ladakh Studies, ed. by Denwood and Osmaston, London: School of African and Oriental Studies; in press, "A Case of Madness or 'Wind Disorder' in Zangskar," forthcoming in the Recent Research on Ladakh 7: Proceedings of the 7th International Colloquium on Ladakh Studies, ed. by T. Dodin, New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass; in press, "Lords of the Fort, Lords of the Water, and No Lords at All: A Comparison of Irrigation in Three Tibetan Societies," in Recent Research on Ladakh 6: Proceedings of the 6th International Colloquium on Ladakh Studies, ed. by H. Osmaston and Ngawang Tsering, New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass; in press, "Hydrologic in the Western Himalaya: Several Case Studies From Zangskar," forthcoming in the Culture Area Karakorum Studies. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Karakorum-Hindukush-Himalaya: Dynamics of Change, ed. by I. Stellrecht, Tuebingen: University Press.

Migyur Dorjee Madrong is a scholar in Tibet.

Charlene Makley is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at theUniversity of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has recently returned from 18 months of dissertation fieldwork on gender and monastic revitalization among AmdoTibetans in the PRC. Her interests include Amdo regional history, Amdo dialectology, theories of religion and ritual, gender studies, linguistic anthropology, and feminist theory.

Acarya Sangye T. Naga heads the Department of Language and Literature of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala. He holds a Master's degree (Acarya) in Tibetan studies from the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi, India. He is the co-author of Tibetan Quadrasyllabics: Phrases and Idioms, the translator of rGya gar rang srid rang skyong (a Tibetan translation of Mahatma Gandhi's Hind Swaraj) and the co-translator of Dispute between Tea and

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Chang and The Life of the Mahasiddha Tilopa. Also, he has published several articles and book reviews in Tibetan as well as in English.

Bhikkhu Pasadika is an Hon. Professor in the Faculty of Non-European Languages and Cultures, Department of Indology and Tibetology, Philipps University, Marburg. He also lectures on Buddhism at Kassel University, Department of Theology and Religious Studies. He holds a PhD from Punjabi University, Patiala, in Buddhist Studies and a master's degree in Pali from Magadh University, Bodh Gaya. He is a member of Institut de recherche bouddhique Linh-Son at Joinville-le Pont (Paris) and of the Editorial Board of Tibet Journal. In addition, he assists in editing Buddhist Studies Review appearing in London.

Kevin Schilbrack (PhD from the University of Chicago) is assistant professor of philosophy and religion at Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.

Gareth Sparham received his doctorate in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia and is presently associated with the Buddhist Dialectic Institute in McLeod Gang, India.

Sonam Tsering, deputy research scholar and translator at the Research and Translation Department of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (Dharamsala, India), holds a Master's degree (Acdrya) in Buddhist philosophy and Tibetan Studies from the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi.