Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries)

Notes on Contributors

Kazuo Kano

is Associate Professor at Koyasan University. His primary areas of expertise is

the cross religio-cultural exchanges between India and Tibet, including the

history of doctrinal develpment of the Buddha-nature teaching in India and

Tibet centered on the Ratnagotravibhāga, Sanskrit manuscripts transmitted

in Tibet, and Tibetan monastic architecture and libraries influenced by Indian

culture. His most recent publications include with Li, Xuezhu, “Critical Edition

and Japanese Translation of Sanskrit text of the Munimatalamkara Chapter 1,

Ekayan Portion (fol. 67v2–70r4): Parallel Passages in the Madhyamakāloka

(梵文校訂『牟尼意趣荘厳』第一章―『中観五蘊論』にもとづく

一切法の解説).” Mikkyo bunka 密教文化 [Quarterly Reports on Esoteric

Buddhism] 232 (2014): 138–144.

Deborah Klimburg-Salter

is an art historian. She is Professor emerita of Asian Art History at the Institute

of Art History, University of Vienna, Director of the research platform CIRDIS

(Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Documentation Inner and South

Asia) and Associate of the Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard

University. Her research specializes on Northern India, Tibet and Central Asia.

Emphasis on the monastic arts and cultural history of the early medieval peri-

ods. Her publications include: with L. Lojda, ed. Changing Forms and Cultural

Identity: Religious and Secular Iconographies. Brepols: Turnhout. 2014; “The

Tibetan Himalayan Style: The Art of the Western Domains 8th–11th.” In Cultural

Flows Across the Western Himalaya, edited by P. McAllister, H. Krasser, and

C. Scherrer-Schaub, 313–360. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie

der Wissenschaften, 2014.

Rob Linrothe

is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Northwestern

University. Through his field work, he has become a specialist in the Buddhist

Art of the Himalayas. He has concentrated on the pre-modern mural painting

of Ladakh and Zangskar (Indian Himalayas) and the contemporary revival of

monastic painting in Amdo (China, Northeastern cultural Tibet). From 2002–

2004, Prof. Linrothe served as the inaugural curator of Himalayan Art at the

Rubin Museum of Art [RMA] which opened to the public in October of 2004.

The catalog of the exhibition he curated (opening in January 2015 at

Northwestern University’s Block Museum which will travel to the RMA)