Jonathan Silk is professor in the study of Buddhism at Leiden
University. His research centers on the scriptural literature of
Indian Buddhism, with particular attention to Mahāyāna sūtras and
their translations into Chinese and Tibetan. His major publications
include Buddhist Cosmic Unity (2015), Riven by Lust: Incest and
Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and Historiography (2008), and
Managing Monks: Administrators and Administrative Roles in Indian
Buddhist Monasticism (2008), as well as numerous articles. Among
other roles, he is editor-in-chief of the Indo-Iranian Journal.
Vincent Eltschinger, is Professor for Indian Buddhism at the École
Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL Research University, Paris. His
research focuses on the religious background, apologetic dimensions
and genealogy of Buddhist philosophy. His numerous publications are
dedicated mainly to the Buddhists’ polemics against Brahmanism from
Aśvaghoṣa to late Buddhist epistemologists. Mention can be made of
Penser l’autorité des Écritures (2007), Caste and Buddhist
Philosophy (2012), Buddhist Epistemology as Apologetics (2014),
Self, No-Self and Salvation (2013, together with Isabelle
Ratié).
Richard Bowring is Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies at the
University of Cambridge, having held previous posts at Monash,
Columbia and Princeton. He is known for his wide-ranging interest
in many aspects of Japanese culture, from Murasaki Shikibu to Mori
Ōgai. His more recent work includes two books on the religious and
intellectual history of Japan: The Religious Traditions of Japan,
500–1600 (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and In Search of the
Way: Thought and Religion in Early-ModernJapan, 1582–1860 (Oxford
University Press, 2017).
Michael Radich formerly taught at Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand, and is now Professor of Buddhist Studies
at Heidelberg. His Harvard PhD (2007) was entitled “The Somatics of
Liberation”. He is author of How Ajātaśatru Was Reformed (2011),
and The Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra and the Emergence of
Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine (2015).
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