C Pierce Salguero Author & Editor

C. Pierce Salguero is associate professor of Asian history and religious studies at Penn State University's Abington College.

Andrew Macomber is assistant professor of East Asian religions at Oberlin College.Zhiru, a Buddhist Nun ordained in the Chinese tradition, received her M.A. from the University of Michigan and holds a doctorate in East Asian Buddhism from the University of Arizona. She has authored a number of articles on medieval Chinese Buddhist cults and contemporary Buddhism in Taiwan. She is currently professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Pomona College.