Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Biography in the Buddhist Traditions
Linda Covill received her PhD from the University of Oxford and is the author ofHandsome Nanda, a translation and a study of Asvaghosa'sSaundarananda.Ulrike Roesler teaches Indian studies at the University of Freiburg in Germany and specializes in the history of the Tibetan Kadampa tradition.Sarah Shaw read Greek and English at Manchester University, where she took a doctorate in English. She studied Pali at Oxford, and is on the steering committee of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. She is a mother, teacher, and writer. She practises with the Samatha Association of Britain.