Irina Garri — Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ulan-Ude, Russia). irina.garri@imbt.ru

Nikolay Tsyrempilov — Professor, Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Nazarbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan). nikolay.tsyrempilov@nu.edu.kz