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RAE DACHILLE
Rae Erin Dachille received her B.A. in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College (1999) and an M.A. in Asian Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005). In 2008, she completed a Masters thesis on modes of representation in Tibetan medical paintings and earned an M.A. in the Languages and Cultures of Asia at UW-Madison. Her research interests include visual and literary representations of the body in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist and medical traditions.

AMANDA GOODMAN
Amanda Goodman received a B.A. in Chinese and Comparative Literature from Indiana University and an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Michigan. She is currently working towards her Ph.D. in the Berkeley Buddhist Studies program with a focus on Tang-Song Chinese Esoteric Buddhism. Her dissertation research centers on a number of recovered Dunhuang manuscripts, specifically a number of lineage texts that appear to relate the early Chan school with the Chinese Esoteric tradition.

ERIC GREENE
Eric Greene received his B.A. in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1998, and his M.A. in Asian Studies, also from UC Berkeley, in 2006. He is currently in Kyoto conducting research for his dissertation, which deals with meditation practices in early Chinese Buddhism.

MATTHEW McMULLEN
Matthew McMullen received a B.A. in Religion from Wabash College in 2002 and an M.A. in Asian Religions from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2008 where his studies centered on Japanese Esoteric Buddhism. He also spent two years at Taisho University in Tokyo as a research student. Matthew’s coursework in the Ph.D. program focuses on Japanese Buddhism, but his research interests also include concepts of esotericism in East Asian Buddhism, Buddhist educational systems, and doctrinal debate in pre-modern Japan.

NANCY LIN
Nancy Lin received an A.B. in Government from Harvard University and an M.A. in East Asian Regional Studies from Columbia University. Her dissertation-in-progress is a cultural history of Indian Buddhist narratives in Tibet, with focus on literary and pictorial adaptations of the life of the Buddha and the "Wish-Fulfilling Vine of Bodhisattva Stories" (Bodhisattva-Avadānakalpalatā) from the mid-seventeenth through eighteenth centuries. Her current research interests include narrative formations of the self, the dynamics of cultural production and authentication, and the historical development of Tibetan Buddhism in transregional contexts.

SHIYING PANG
Shiying Pang received a B.A. in History from Fudan University (2003) and an M.A. in Special History of Chinese Religion, also from Fudan University (2006). In spring 2009, she completed a master thesis on the familial identity of Tang Buddhist nuns and received an M.A. in the East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Her research focuses primarily on Chinese Buddhism, especially Buddhist nuns and laywomen represented by epigraphy and literature.

"TATSUO" FLORIAN SAILE
"Tatsuo" Florian Saile received his B.A. in Japanese Language and Literature from UC Berkeley in 2001, and his M.A in Buddhist Studies from the Osaka University of Foreign Studies (Osaka, Japan) in 2003. He is currently completing coursework in the Ph.D. program with a focus on Heian and Kamakura-period Japanese Buddhism. His primary area of interest is the doctrinal, ritual, and institutional evolution of the Hosso and Tendai schools.

DAN STUART
Dan Stuart received a B.A. in Buddhist Studies from Long Island University's Friend's World Program (2003) and an M.A. in Sanskrit Literature from the department of South and South East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley (2007). He is presently carrying out dissertation research on the early history of Indian Buddhist meditation traditions in comparison with the burgeoning present-day tradition of Vipassanā meditation in India. He specializes in the study of Buddhist sūtra literature, early Buddhist manuscripts, and the history of Mainstream Buddhism.

JOSEPH WOOD
Joseph Wood received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota (1966), an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin (1972), and a J.D. from the University of California-Berkeley (1981). His research interests include philosophical/legal principles underlying rules of monastic conduct, and causation theory as it relates to effect of vows, rituals, etc.