"Image" here has a number of more or less distinct connotations, though most essays treat either popular constructions and appropriations of motifs having to do with Tibet or national academic traditions of the study of Tibet, and most treat "Tibet" not as a natural but as a constructed and contested category with rhetorical and political force. ...the scholarship represented here is, at its best, both philologically adept and theoretically sophisticated, utilizing sources in multiple languages and addressing current issues that cut across a number of disciplines. ...Images of Tibet continues the ever-important project of scrutinizing the primary object of discourse within international scholarly, cultural, and political spheres--namely, "Tibet"--while more than once relating this to Tibet and Tibetans.