Introduction

This issue has its origins in a pair of conference panels, one at the 2014 meeting of the American Academy of Religion, and the other at the 2016 meeting of the International Association of Tibetan Studies. These panels sought to bring together a diverse set of perspectives on the complex role that animals play in Tibetan religion and culture, a goal that is taken up by this issue of Études mongoles & sibériennes, centrasiatiques & tibétaines. As it is elsewhere in the world, the relationship..