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2015); “Spells and Magical Practices as Reflected in the Early Chinese Buddhist

Sources (c. 300–600 CE) and their Implications for the Rise and Development

of Esoteric Buddhism.” In Chinese and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, edited by

Meir Sahar and Yael Bentor (forthcoming, 2016).

Monica Strinu

finished her diploma thesis on depictions of deities from the founding phase

of Tabo in the context of cultural history at the University of Vienna in 2013.

Since 2007 she has worked as an archive assistant and graphic designer at the

Western Himalaya Archive Vienna, part of the national research network

“The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya from the 8th Century” and the

“Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Documentation of Inner and South

Asian Cultural History” at the Institute for Art History at the University of

Vienna. Her research interests include Western Himalayan art from the 10th to

13th centuries and digital art history.

Gertraud Taenzer

is an independant scholar. Her current research interests are old Tibetan wood-

slips of the Southern Taklamakan and the Tsaidam Basin and the secular man-

uscripts of the post Tibetan period (period of Guiyi jun rule) from Dunhuang.

Her publications include “The ’A zha Country under the Tibetans in the 8th

and 9th Century: A Survey of Land Registration and Taxation Based on a

Sequence of Three Manuscripts of the Stein Collection from Dunhuang”. In

Scribes, Texts, and Rituals in Early Tibet and Dunhuang, edited by Brandon

Dotson, Kazushi Iwao and Tsuguhito Takeuchi, 25–43. Wiesbaden: Reichert

Verlag, 2013.

Sam van Schaik

is based at the British Library, and is currently a Principle Investigator in

the project Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State

(funded by the European Research Commission). His previous research proj-

ects include Tibetan Chan, Tibetan and Chinese paleography, and the Tibetan

Tan tric manuscripts from Dunhuang. He also occasionally lectures at the

School of Oriental and African Studies. His recent publications include: Tibetan

Zen-Discovering a Lost Tradition. Boston: Shambhala, 2015; with Imre Galambos.

Manuscripts and Travellers: The Sino Tibetan Documents of a Tenth Century

Buddhist Pilgrim. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2012; Tibet: A History. London: Yale

University Press, 2011.