Haiwang Yuan is professor of Library Public Services at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY. His published works includes Libraries Unlimited's The Magic Lotus Lantern and Other Tales of the Han Chinese.

Awang Kunga is a Tibetan storyteller and assistant to the Lama at the Yonge Tibetan Buddhist Temple in Beijing, China.

Bo Li is with the North China Electric Power University in Beijing, China. Her primary interest is in Chinese culture, Tibetan Buddhism in particular, and she is devoted to international cultural exchanges.