List of Contributors

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Jean-Luc Achard is researcher at the Centre National de la Recher- che Scientifique (CNRS, National Center for Scientific Research) in Paris and member of the Centre de Recherches sur les Civilisations de l’Asie Orientale (CRCAO). He is also the creator and editor of the Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines (RET), a free online magazine on Tibetan Studies, available on the site of the Digital Himalaya website hosted by the Cambridge University. His main fields of research are the studies of the Bon po and Nying ma pa traditions in general, and their specific rDzogs chen lineages and teachings in particular. Henk Blezer has been involved in academic research and publica- tion on Indian and Tibetan Buddhism and on Bön since the early nineties. He organised the Ninth Seminar of the International Associ- ation for Tibetan Studies at the IIAS, Leiden University (2000), and published the proceedings (Brill 2002, in ten volumes). He has worked on Bön traditions for about twenty years and was Principal Investigator in the The Three Pillars of Bön research program (NWO Vidi, Leiden University, 2005–2010), on the formation of Bön identity in Tibet, at around the turn of the first millennium AD. He presently teaches Buddhist Studies at Leiden University. Remco Breuker is Professor of Korean Studies at Leiden Universi- ty. He read Japanese Studies and Korean Studies at Leiden Universi- ty. He then studied Korean history at the Graduate School of the Department of Korean History at Seoul National University. He held postdoctoral positions at the Australian National University and at Leiden University (NWO Veni). His Ph.D. was on the formation of plural identities in medieval Korea, while his present research seeks to reconceptualize medieval Northeast Asian history. Although a premodern historian by training, his interests also include (contemporary) historiography, representations of identity, the question of modernity in premodern periods, landscape and history, cultures of forgery, contemporary Korean cinema and the role of the Vietnam War in the shaping of postwar East Asia. He is co-editor of East Asian History (www.eastasianhistory.org) and Korean Histories (www.koreanhistories.org) and translates modern Korean novels into Dutch. 260 CONTRIBUTORS Johannes Bronkhorst did his Indological studies in India, where he obtained his first doctorate (Pune 1979). He did a second doctorate in Leiden (1980), and was appointed Professor of Sanskrit and Indian studies at the University of Lausanne in 1987, where he taught until 2011. He has been editor of Brill’s Indological Library and Brill’s Handbook of Oriental Studies since 1991. Some of his recent books are Greater Magadha: Studies in the Culture of Early India (Brill 2007), Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism (Brill 2011) and Language and Reality: On an Episode in Indian Thought (Brill 2011). Bronkhorst has been concentrating so far on the history of Indian thought in the broadest sense, but has in recent years been trying to get a clearer picture of the circumstances in which these forms of thought could develop. Satō Hiroo is a professor of the Graduate School of Arts and Letters at Tohoku University. His academic field is the history of Japanese thought. He is the author of, amongst others, Shisha no Yukue (The Destination of the Dead, Iwata Syoin, 2008), Shinkoku Nippon (Japan, the Land of the Gods, Chikuma Shobo). Annette Hornbacher is a full Professor at the Institut für Ethnolo- gie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, since 2010. She received her doctoral degree in Tübingen, on the poetic critique of enlighten- ment in philosophy, and her habilitation in Cultural Anthropology at the University of München. She has taught in München, Göttingen, Tübingen and Heidelberg. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Indonesia and particularly in Bali where she worked between 1998 and 2002 in a VW-funded research project on ritual dance drama as a representation form of kinaesthetic knowledge. Presently she is leader of a subproject on Adat or Agama? Persistence and Revitali- zation of Local Religious Traditions in Indonesia, within a BMBF research project on Dynamiken von Religion in Südostasien. Beyond that she is co-leader of a French-German research project: Local Tra- ditions and World Religions: The Appropriation of ‘Religion’ in Southeast Asia and Beyond and leader of Heilige und Sakrale Schrift in Bali, which is part of an interdisciplinary research area Material Text Cultures at the university of Heidelberg. The focus of her present research is on the transformation and revitalisation of local ritual practices in Bali, transnational religious movements, the reinvention of Hinduism in Bali, and recently: competing ontologies and multiple ecologies in transcultural perspective. .

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