Robert Leach is Lecturer in Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh with research interests including the Hindu Tantric traditions, especially the history, doctrines and practices of the Pancaratra; the Mahabharata; the history of Indian doxography (canonical classifications of distinct philosophical and/or religious methods, doctrines and schools); and the category 'Hinduism'.
Jessie Pons is a visiting research fellow at the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. Her research interests focus on Buddhist art with special attention to the representation of Buddhist narratives in Gandhara, in oases of the Silk Road and in the Indian Sub-continent, and the role of inter-religious encounter in the construction of early Buddhist and Brahmanic iconography in South Asia.
