TABLE OF CONTENTS vii; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix; JANET GYATSO: Introduction Moments of Tibetan modernity: Methods and assumptions 1; LAURAN HARTLEY: Self as a faithful public servant: The autobiography of Mdo mkhar ba Tshe ring dbang rgyal (1697–1763) 45; LOBSANG YONGDAN: Tibet charts the world: The Btsan po No mon han’s Detailed Description of the World, an early major scientific workin Tibet 73; GRAY TUTTLE: Challenging central Tibet’s dominance of history: The Oceanic Book, a nineteenth-century politico-religiousgeographic history 135; ANNABELLA PITKIN: Lineage, authority and innovation: The biography of Khu nu bla ma Bstan ’dzin rgyal mtshan 173; ISRUN ENGELHARDT: Reflections in The Tibet Mirror: News of the world 1937–1946 205; KEVIN GARRATT: Shes bya: A Tibetan newspaper’s international reportage in the 1970s 265; YUMJEAP RWA: Views on Tibetan names and cultural identity 303; ASTRID HOVDEN: Ritualised memories: Maintenance of the Sa ga zla ba festival tradition in contemporary Lhasa 327; DEREK F. MAHER: An examination of a critical appraisal of Tsepon Shakabpa’s One Hundred Thousand Moons 353; RIIKA J. VIRTANEN: Images of love in Don grub rgyal’s short stories 373; FRANZ XAVER ERHARD: Constructed identities and contemporary Tibetan literature: The fiction of the A mdo ba Skyabs chen bde grol and the Lha sa ba Dpal ’byor 419; HOLLY GAYLEY: The ethics of cultural survival: A Buddhist vision of progress in Mkhan po ’Jigs phun’s Heart Advice to Tibetans for the 21st Century 435