Buddhist Fire Ritual in Japan

Madhavi Kolhatkar: (Ph.D., University of Poona) Assistant Editor in the Sanskrit Dictionary Department, Deccan College, Pune. She has published over fifty articles on a variety of theme bearing notably on Vedic ritual, religion, Japanese culture and Sanskrit literature and has authored books titled Sura: The Liquor and the Vedic Sacrifice, Indian Fire Ritual, and has edited, in collaboration, Madhuvidya-Dr. M.A. Mehendale Felicitation Volume Samvijnanam (Select article of Dr. T.N. Dharmadhikari) (Pune, 2006).

Musashi Tachikawa is professor at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan, (Ph.D., Harvard University (1975); D. Litt., Nagoya University (1970-92). His publications include the Structure of the World of Udayana's Realism (Reidel, 1980), Fiver Hundred Buddhist Deities (Adroit, 2000), Three Hundred Sixty Buddhist Deities (Adro, 2001).