Justin Thomas McDanielJustin McDaniel is professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand (Columbia University Press, 2011) and Gathering Leaves nd Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand (University of Washington Press, 2008); and coeditor of Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2016) and From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls: New Approaches to the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). Read More Read Less