Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003 The Mongolia-Tibet Interface ─ Opening New Research Terrains in Inner Asia

The four-session panel was held to extend the discussion began in a special 2002 edition of Inner Asia devoted to the interface between Tibetan and Mongolian cultures. Scholars from the region and elsewhere in the world present a wide range of material and approaches. The topics include the demise of Buddhism in Inner Mongolia, the story of Dugar Jaisang and popular views of Mongolian-Tibetan relations from Mongolian perspectives, Danzan Ravjaa as the fierce drunken lord of the Gobi, and Mongol cultural sites and customs in modern 'Dan Gzhung (Tibet Autonomous Region). No index is provided. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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).