Alice TraversAlice Travers is a permanent researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research [CNRS], in the East Asian Civilisations Research Centre [CRCAO, UMR 8155 Paris] where she has been working on the social history of Tibet in the 19th and 20h centuries, and on the Ganden Phodrang army. She has published articles on the Tibetan aristocracy. She has co-edited several volumes, "Buddhism and the Military" in Tibet during the Ganden Phodrang period [1642-1959] with Frederica Venturi, special issue of the "cahiers d'extreme Asie". Read More Read Less