Melvyn C. Goldstein

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1. Melvyn C. Goldstein

   Author of The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama, Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity, Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan: A Reading Course and Reference Grammar

2. Jamgon Kongtrul

   Author of The Treasury of Knowledge, Book 1: Book One: Myriad Worlds, The Treasury of Knowledge, Book 5: Book Five: Buddhist Ethics (v. 5), The Treasury of Knowledge: Book 8, Part 4: Esoteric Instructions (Bk.8, Pt. 4)

3. Tsong-Kha-Pa

   Author of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Volume One: The Lamrim Chenmo, The Fulfillment of All Hopes: Guru Devotion in Tibetan Buddhism, Tantric Ethics: An Explanation of the Precepts for Buddhist Vajrayana Practice

4. Geshe Tashi Tsering

   Author of Buddhist Psychology: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought (Foundation of Buddhist Thought, The), Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought (Volume 2), Emptiness: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought

5. Joe Wilson

   Author of Translating Buddhism from Tibetan, Chandrakirti's Sevenfold Reasoning: Meditation on the Selflessness of Persons

6. Georges B. J. Dreyfus

   Author of The Sound of Two Hands Clapping: The Education of a Tibetan Buddhist Monk (A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies), Recognizing Reality: Dharmakirti's Philosophy and Its Tibetan Interpretations (S U N Y Series in Buddhist Studies)

7. Dalai Lama

   Author of Ocean of Wisdom: Guidelines for Living, The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra, Four Essential Buddhist Commentaries

8. Donald S. Lopez Jr.

   Author of Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, Religions of Tibet in practice, Elaborations on Emptiness

9. Karl Brunnholzl

   Author of The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyu Tradition (Nitartha Institute Series), Luminous Heart: The Third Karmapa on Consciousness, Wisdom, and Buddha Nature (The Nitartha Institute)

10. Andrew Bloomfield

    Author of Learning Practical Tibetan

11. Daniel Cozort

    Author of Highest Yoga Tantra, Unique Tenets of the Middle Way Consequence School

12. Nicolas Tournadre

    Author of Manual of Standard Tibetan

13. Edward Conze

    Author of The Perfection of Wisdom (Wheel Series, 1), The Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom: With the Divisions of the Abhisamayalankara (Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, Uc Berkeley)

14. H. A. Jaschke

    Author of Tibetan-English Dictionary (With Special Reference to the Prevailing Dialects, to which is added an English-Tibetan Vocabulary)

15. Erik Pema Kunsang

    Author of Wellsprings of the Great Perfection: The Lives and Insights of the Early Masters

16. Jan Westerhoff

    Author of Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction

17. James Blumenthal

    Author of The Ornament of the Middle Way: A Study of the Madhyamaka Thought of Shantarakshita

18. Robert E. Fisher

    Author of Art in Tibet

19. Stephen Hodge

    Author of An Introduction to Classical Tibetan

20. C. W. Huntington

    Author of The Emptiness of Emptiness: An Introduction to Early Madhyamika (National Foreign Language Center Technical Reports)