Daniel Boucher is an associate professor of Sino-Indian Buddhism at Cornell University. He specializes in the study of early Mahayana traditions with particular interests in the use of early Chinese translations for the study of Indian Buddhism, Gandharan Buddhism and the recent early manuscript discoveries from that region, and sociological and literary critical methods for understanding the emergence of Mahayana literature and the authorial communities that produced and circulated it. He is the author of Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana: A Study and Translation of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra.

Shayne Clarke is an associate professor in McMaster University's Department of Religious Studies. He is a specialist in the study of Indian Buddhist monastic law (Vinaya), working primarily on legal texts-both canonical and commentarial-preserved in Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese. The author of Family Matters in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms (2014), he aims to recover, among other things, lost voices and views from premodern sources, including those related to pregnant nuns and monastic mothers: Buddhist monasticism, but not as we have generally imagined it.