Buddhist Exchanges Between India and Japan: Japanese Buddhists Encountering India and Modern Buddhist Studies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032883045)

Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya is a Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Delhi. She holds a doctoral degree in Religious Studies from the University of Tokyo, Japan. She previously taught at the Nagoya City University and was Visiting Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto. She specializes in Japanese Buddhism. Her research includes the study of Engaged Buddhist movements in Japan, Buddhist diplomacy, New Religious Movements and transnational intellectual and artistic exchanges between India and Japan.

Togawa Masahiko is Professor of Cultural Anthropology of South Asia, and Comparative Studies of Religion at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) in Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). He graduated from Keio University, Japan, and studied at Calcutta University, North Bengal University, and Visva-Bharati University in India from 1992 to 1997, conducting anthropological fieldwork in a village society in Bengal, and studies intellectual exchanges between Japan and India such as Okakura Kakuzo with Swami Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore during the British period.