Chinese Buddhism and the Scholarship of Erik Zürcher

Jonathan A. Silk is Professor in the study of Buddhism at Leiden University. In addition to numerous publications on Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, he is the editor of Buddhism in China: Collected Papers of Erik Zürcher (Brill, 2013).

Stefano Zacchetti (1968-2020) was Yehan Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies at Oxford University. A specialist in Chinese Buddhism, his most recent book, posthumously published, was The Da zhidu lun 大智度論 (*Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa) and the History of the Larger Prajñāpāramitā (Hamburg, 2021).