Guest Editor’s Note

  • Daniel Berounský
  • Jarmila Ptáčková

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Author Biographies

Daniel Berounský

DANIEL BEROUNSKÝ is associate professor at the Department of South and Central Asia, the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Charles University in Prague. His published research focuses on indigenous rituals in Tibet, case studies of spirit-mediums in eastern Tibet, selected problems of Tibetan history and Tibetan ideas associated with the afterlife.

Jarmila Ptáčková

JARMILA PTÁČKOVÁ graduated from the Humboldt University in Berlin, specializing in Chinese and Central Asian Studies, and obtained her PhD in Tibetan studies from the same university. She worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Leipzig University and the Humboldt University. For the last several years her research focuses on the social and economic changes in Tibetan areas of Western China caused by the state stateinitiated development efforts. Currently, she is affiliated with the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.

Published
2016-12-16
How to Cite
Berounský, D., & Ptáčková, J. (2016). Guest Editor’s Note. Archiv orientální, 84(3), 463-465. https://doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.84.3.463-465
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Introduction to the Special Issue