Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume Two: Lives Tapa dura -

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 Mah?y?na s?tras 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 cole Pratique des Hautes tudes, 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 A?vagho?a to late Buddhist epistemologists. Mention can be made of Penser l'autorit des critures (2007), Caste and Buddhist Philosophy (2012), Buddhist Epistemology as Apologetics (2014), Self, No-Self and Salvation (2013, together with Isabelle Rati).
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 ?gai. 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 Aj?ta?atru Was Reformed (2011), and The Mah?parinirv??a-mah?s?tra and the Emergence of Tath?gatagarbha Doctrine (2015).