GEORGIOS T. HALKIAS is associate professor at The University of Hong Kong and author of Luminous Bliss: A Religious History of Pure Land Literature in Tibet.

CHRISTINA PARTSALAKI has an MPhil from the University of Hong Kong and is the author of "Heraclitus and the Buddha: Approaching Truth in Early Greek and Early Buddhist Thinking," published in the Stoa of Sciences journal.

JIGME LINGPA was an eighteenth-century Tibetan treasure revealer of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Translations of his works into English have been published on the topics of Dzogchen nature of mind teachings, Vajrayana preliminary practices of ngondro, and the complete Nyingma path.