John Kieschnick is Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies at Stanford University and the author of The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture and Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography. Meir Shahar is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Tel Aviv University and the author of The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts and Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature.

"The scholarship in these substantial and insightful essays is first rate. This volume is the first to take a broad approach to the relationship between India and China in the premodern era from the perspective of cultural imagination and to provide case studies as examples of how further work can proceed." (Charles D. Orzech, University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

John Kieschnick is Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies at Stanford University and the author of The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture and Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography. Meir Shahar is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Tel Aviv University and the author of The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts and Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature.

"The scholarship in these substantial and insightful essays is first rate. This volume is the first to take a broad approach to the relationship between India and China in the premodern era from the perspective of cultural imagination and to provide case studies as examples of how further work can proceed." (Charles D. Orzech, University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

John Kieschnick is Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Professor of Buddhist Studies at Stanford University and the author of The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture and Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography. Meir Shahar is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Tel Aviv University and the author of The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts and Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature.

"The scholarship in these substantial and insightful essays is first rate. This volume is the first to take a broad approach to the relationship between India and China in the premodern era from the perspective of cultural imagination and to provide case studies as examples of how further work can proceed." (Charles D. Orzech, University of North Carolina at Greensboro)