Matthew T. Kapstein is Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago and Director of Tibetan Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. His recent publications include "The Presence of Light" (2004), "Reason's Traces" (2001), "The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism" (2000) and "Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet" (1998).