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entitled Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies, with

contributions by Christian Luczanits and Mellissa R. Kerin. Ilford: Wisdom

Books, 2015.

Linda Lojda

is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Vienna. Her teaching areas include

Asian Art in Viennese Collections and Ritual Art of the Tibetan Bön tradition.

She is co-editor of the exhibition catalogue Bön: Geister aus Butter: Kunst und

Ritual des alten Tibet, with Deborah Klimburg-Salter, and Charles Ramble.

Wien: Museum für Völkerkunde 2013, and also of the first volume of the papers

from the 20th conference of the European Association for South Asian

Archaeology and Art entitled Changing Forms and Cultural Identity: Religious

and Secular Iconographies, edited by Deborah Klimburg-Salter, and Linda

Lojda. Turnhout: Brepols 2014.

Carmen Meinert

holds the chair for Central Asian Religions at the Center for Religious Studies

(CERES) at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. One of her research interests

focuses on the transmission of Buddhism in Central Asia, Tibet and China with

particular emphasis on early Tantric and Esoteric Buddhist Traditions. Her

publications include ed., Buddha in the Yurt—Buddhist Art from Mongolia.

Munich: Hirmer, 2 vols., 2011; “Assimilation and Transformation of Esoteric

Buddhism in Tibet and China. Case Study of the Adaptation Processes of

Violence in a Ritual Context.” In Tibet after Empire. Culture, Society and Religion

between 850–1000. Proceedings of the Seminar Held in Lumbini, Nepal, March

2010 , edited by Christoph Cüppers, Robert Mayer and Michael Walter, 295–312.

Lumbini: Lumbini International Research Institute, 2013.

Henrik H. Sørensen

is director of the Seminar for Buddhist Studies in Copenhagen. His fields of

interest covers East Asian Buddhism broadly defined with special emphasis on

the relationship between religious practice and material culture including reli-

gious art. Especially various forms of Esoteric Buddhism (mijiao, mikkyō and

milgyŏ) have taken precedence over other forms of East Asian Buddhism,

although Chinese Chan and Korean Sŏn Buddhism continue to be fields of his

major interest. Among his recent publications are: Orzech, Charles D., Henrik

H. Sørensen and Richard K. Payne, ed. Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in

East Asia. Leiden: Brill, 2011; “The Meeting and Conflation of Chan and Esoteric

Buddhism during the Tang.” In Chán Buddhism—Dūnhuáng and Beyond:

Texts, Manuscripts, and Contexts, edited by Christoph Anderl (forthcoming