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Contributors James A. Benn is associate professor in the Religious Studies Department of McMaster University. He studies Buddhism and Taoism in medieval China and is especially interested in the body as a site of religious practice, the cult of relics, interactions between religion and politics, and the religious and cultural aspects of commodities such as tea. Raoul Birnbaum is professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he also holds the Patricia and Rowland Rebele Chair in History of Art and Visual Culture. His writings consider practices and representations in Buddhist China, from early medieval times to the present day. His work is informed by long-term, continuing field study in Chinese Buddhist communities. Jason A. Carbine is currently visiting assistant professor at Franklin and Marshall College. His publications include Life of Buddhism (co-edited, University of California Press, 2000), and he is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Negotiating Rupture: Human Labor and the Sasana in a Burmese Buddhist Monastic Tradition. Bryan J. Cuevas is associate professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Religion at Florida State University. He is the author of The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Oxford University Press, 2003) and co-editor of Power, Politics , and the Reinvention of Tradition: Tibet in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Brill, 2006). Currently he is completing a book entitled Travels in the Netherworld: Buddhist Popular Narratives of Death and the Afterlife in Tibet. His research interests also include Tibetan history and historiography, monastic politics, and the sociology of ritual. 467 Hank Glassman is assistant professor of East Asian Studies at Haverford College. He specializes in the religious culture of medieval Japan. His publications include ‘‘ ‘Show Me the Place Where My Mother Is!’ Chūjōhime, Preaching, and Relics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan,’’ in Approaching the Pure Land: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitābha, ed. Richard K. Payne and Kenneth K. Tanaka (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003), and ‘‘The Nude Jizō at Denkōji: Notes on Women’s Salvation in Kamakura Buddhism ,’’ in Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Pre-Modern Japan, ed. Barbara Ruch (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002). Currently he is working on a book about the cult of Jizō. John Clifford Holt is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. He is the author of Discipline: The Canonical Buddhism of the Vinayapitaka (Motilal Banarsidass, 1981); Buddha in the Crown: Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka (Oxford University Press, 1991); The Religious World of Kı̄rti Śrı̄: Buddhism, Art and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka (Oxford University Press, 1996); and The Buddhist Visnu: Religious Transformation, Politics, and Culture (Columbia University Press, 2004). These books have been translated into Sinhala and published in Sri Lanka. Matthew T. Kapstein is Directeur d’Études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, and Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago. A specialist of both Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, his recent publications include The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory (Oxford University Press, 2000); Reason’s Traces: Identity and Interpretation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Thought (Wisdom Publications, 2001); The Presence of Light: Divine Radiance and Religious Experience (University of Chicago Press, 2004); and The Tibetans (Blackwell , 2006). D. Max Moerman is assistant professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University . He is the author of Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2005). 468 Contributors [54.196.248.93] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 10:29 GMT) Mark Rowe is assistant professor of Japanese religions at McMaster University. His current research focuses on contemporary Japanese Buddhism and changing burial practices. His recent publications include ‘‘Where the Action Is: Sites of Contemporary Sōtō Buddhism ’’ (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 2004) and Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Teachings, Doctrines, and Practices (coedited , Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, special issue, 2004). Kurtis R. Schaeffer is associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the co-editor of Power, Politics, and the Reinvention of Tradition: Tibet in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Brill, 2006) and author of Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun (Oxford University Press, 2004) and Dreaming the Great Brahmin: Tibetan...