Contributors to This Issue Michael Nylan is a professor of history at UC Berkeley. When not studying modern receptions of antiquity, she usually conducts research in Chinese history from 400 b.c.e. to 400 c.e. Her most recent publications include the forthcoming Norton Critical Edition of the Analects, a translation of Yang Xiong’s Exemplary Figures, and Lives of Confucius, written with Thomas Wilson. Her next project is a book on pleasure theory in early China. Roger T. Ames has been teaching in the philosophy department at the University of Hawaii since 1978. He has authored, edited, and translated some thirty books. Currently, he works on interpretive studies and explicitly “philosophical” translations of the core classical texts. Rev. Heng Sure was ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1976. He received his master’s degree in Oriental languages from UC Berkeley and his doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He is director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery and lectures widely on the study and practice of Buddhism. Shr Heng Lyu is abbot of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Talmage, California. Ron Epstein holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist studies from UC Berkeley. He is retired from teaching Buddhist studies and world religions at San Francisco State University. He is the editor and compiler of Buddhism A to Z (Buddhist Text Translation Society, 2003). Thomas Cattoi is Associate Professor of Christology and Cultures at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, which is part of the Graduate Theological Union. He holds degrees in economics and philosophy from Oxford and London Universities, as well as a Ph.D in systematic theology from Boston College. His publications include Divine Contingency: Theologies of Divine Embodiment in Maximos the Confessor and Tsong kha pa (Gorgias Press, 2009). His translation of the writings of Theodore the Studite will be published by Paulist Press in 2013. David Rounds is the editor of this journal. He recently participated in a new translation of the Surangama Sutra (Buddhist Text Translation Society, 2009). His latest project is a verse-to-verse translation of the poems of the Venerable Master Hsüan Hua. Issue 11, October 2012
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