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iven the general lack of useful reference tools on Tibet and her history, any compendium or dictionary dealing particu-larly with the history of Tibet is more than welcome. The volume under review is part of a series of historical dictionaries cov-ering Asia, Oceanea, and the Middle East. The goal is to “describe the main people, events, politics, social issues, institutions, and policies” of the country in question (front matter). The Historical Dictionary of Tibet meets at least some of these ambitious goals. In the following section 1, I shall first describe the formal features of the volume, before discussing some issues of the content in section 2 (2-1. Prehistory, 2-2. Mythical beginnings, 2-3. The Old Tibetan em-pire, 2-4. Ethnical diversity and the kingdom of Zhang zhung, 2-5. Tibet’s peripheral areas, 2-6. Ladakh). Some concluding remarks will be found in section 3