Table of Contents: Johan Elverskog: Introduction 7 Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz: Forming a Mongolian Buddhist Identity: The Biography of Neichi Toin 13 Hidehiro Okada and Junko Miyawaki-Okada: The Biography of Zaya Pandita, The Greatest Oirad Monk 29 Agata Bareja-Starzynska: The Growth of the Religious Authority of the First Jebzundamba of Mongolia (1635-1723) 49 Vladimir Uspenskiy: Gombojab – A Tibetan Buddhist in the Capital of the Qing Empire 59 Magdalena Szpindler: Agvaandandar (1759-1840) – Philosopher, Linguist and Poet from Alashan 71 Johan Elverskog: Injannashi, The Anti-Cervantes 83 D. Ganzorig: Lunrig Dandar: Life and Works of One of the Last great Scholars of Tibetan Medicine in Mongolia 107 Nikolay Tsyrempilov: Samdan Tsydenov and His Buddhist Theocratic Project in Siberia 117 Natalia Bolsokhoeva: Lama Agvan Nyima (1907-1990) – The Buddhist Master from Buryat-Mongolia 139