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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
ANNABELLA PITKIN is completing her PhD in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism at Columbia University in New York City. The current article is drawn from her dissertation work on Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen.
ALEX MCKAY is a research fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the Study of the History of Medicine at UCL (London) and an affiliated fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden. He has a Ph.D. in South Asian History from the University of London (SOAS) and is the author of Tibet and the British Raj: The Frontier Cadre 1904-1947 (London, 1997) and numerous articles on Indo-Tibetan history. His most recent publication is a three volume edited History of Tibet (London, 2003).
MICHAEL RANK graduated in Chinese from Downing College, Cambridge University in 1972. He was a British Council student at Beijing University and Fudan University, Shanghai from 1974 to 1976.
He was a Reuters correspondent in China in the early 1980s and visited Tibet in 1983. He is now a Chinese–English translator and freelance journalist. His interest in ornithology and in Tibet drew him to Ludlow and to do research on his life.