Contributors to This Issue Harold D. Roth is professor of religious studies and East Asian studies at Brown University. He is a specialist in early Chinese religious thought, Daoism, the history of East Asian religions and the psychology of contemplative experience. His publications include The Textual History of the Huai-nan Tzu (1992), “Inward Training” and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism (1999), Daoist Identity: Cosmology, Lineage, and Ritual, with Livia Kohn (2002), A Companion to Angus C. Graham‘s Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters (2003), and The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Royal Government in 139 B.C.E., by Liu An, King of Huainan, with John Major, Sarah Queen and Andrew Meyer (forthcoming), as well as more than thirty articles. As a pioneer in the field of contemplative studies, Professor Roth has developed courses that incorporate first-person and third-person approaches to contemplative experience. B. Alan Wallace began his studies of Tibetan Buddhism, language and culture in 1970 at the University of Göttingen and then continued his studies over the next fourteen years in India, Switzerland and the United States. He was ordained as a Buddhist monk by the Dalai Lama in 1975 and has taught Buddhist meditation and philosophy worldwide since 1976. He earned his Ph.D. in religious studies at Stanford. He founded and currently serves as president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. He has edited, translated, authored or contributed to more than thirty books on Tibetan Buddhism, medicine, language and culture, and on the interface between science and religion. Recent publications includee The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness (2000), Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground (2003), The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind (2006), Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge (2007), and Embracing Mind: The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality (2008). A brief portrait of the Ven. Master Hsüan Hua appears on page 130. William J. Jackson is professor of religious studies at Indiana UniversityPurdue University at Indianapolis. He was awarded the doctoral degree in the comparative study of religion at Harvard University in 1984. Three of his books, Tyagaraja: Life and Lyrics, Songs of Three Great South Indian Saints, and Vijayanagara Visions have been published by Oxford University Press. His Vijayanagara Voices was published by Ashgate Publishing. He is ISSUE 8, OCTOBER 2008
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currently at work on an anthology entitled The Wisdom of Generosity, to be published by Baylor University Press. Mark E. Hanshaw holds a Ph.D. in comparative religious ethics from Southern Methodist University. His dissertation was titled “An Intersection of Societies: American Muslims, Islamic Law and the U.S. Courts in Conflict.” He also holds an M.T.S. from Brite Divinity School, an LL.M. in international trade from the University of Manchester, a J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law and a B.A. from the University of Tennessee. Fausto Gianfreda S.J. earned a masters degree in law from La Sapienza University in Rome, then studied at the seminary Almo Collegio Capranica, also in Rome. He undertook theology and theological anthropology studies at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana. He joined the Society of Jesus in 1999. In 2003, he obtained an ecclesiastical B.A. in philosophy at the Aloisianum Philosophical Institute in Padua. He is the author of L‘ accadere della verità: Seyn e Da-Sein nei Beitrage zur Philosophie di Martin Heidegger (2007) and Il dibattito sulla “natura pura,” trans. H. de Lubac and K. Rahner (Villa Verrucchio, 2007), among other books. He is now pursuing studies in interreligious dialogue at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, California. Lauren Bausch is assistant editor of Religion East & West and a graduate student in South and Southeast Asian studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is interested in theorizing the change in ancient Indian religious culture between the time of the Mauryan and Gupta Empires (200 B.C.E. to 300 C.E.). She received her MA in Christian spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union in 2006. Thomas Cattoi is assistant professor of Christology and Cultures at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University, an M.S.C. from the London School of Economics, an M.Phil. from University College London, and a Ph.D. from Boston College. His research interests include Christology and patristics, Mahayana Buddhism (with particular attention to the Tibetan tradition), and the theology of interreligious dialogue. His goal as a constructive theologian is to develop a comparative theology of embodiment and desire.
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