Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Ph.D. (1994), Marburg University, is University Professor and Head of the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna. His key publications include A Direct Path to the Buddha Within (Wisdom, 2008) and A Fine Blend of Mahāmudrā and Madhyamaka (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2015).
Gabriele Coura, M.A. (2014, University of Vienna), is a Lecturer at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna. Her MA thesis is entitled " The Life and Works of the Thirteenth Karma-pa bDud-'dul-rdo-rje (1733-1797)". She is currently working on her PhD, doing comparative research about Tibetan Buddhist and Cistercian monasteries as places of education.

Groundbreaking research by nine international Tibetan studies scholars on one of the most important developments in the history of Tibetan Buddhism, ris med, a period of religious tolerance.