Rolf A. Stein (1911-1999) is widely considered to be one of the preeminent Tibetologists of the twentieth century. He published extensively in the fields of Tibetan, East- and Southeast Asian religion and society. He held professorships at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes (comparative religion) and the College de France.

Arthur P. McKeown is finishing his Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies at Harvard University with a dissertation on the Tibetan and Chinese travels of the fifteenth century Indian abbot of Vajrasana, Sariputra. He has recently completed, with Leonard van der Kuijp, "Bcom ldan Rag gri (1227-1305) on Indian Buddhist Logic and Epistemology: His Commentary on Dignaga's Pramanasamuccaya" (Austrian Academy of Social Sciences).