Acknowledgements
The chapters in this volume originated as papers delivered at a conference held in Paris in June of 2022. The conference was co-organized by James Benn, Benjamin Brose, and Ji Zhe to celebrate the career and scholarship of Raoul Birnbaum. Funding was generously provided by the Centre d’études interdisciplinaires sur le bouddhisme (CEIB) as part of the Lin Li-Kouang distinguished lecture for Buddhist studies. The Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales hosted the three-day event. The editors would like to thank the many people who contributed to and participated in this conference. These include Antoine Cid, Vincent Durand-Dastès, Sylvie Hureau, Fabienne Jagou, Carsten Krause, and Gregory Adam Scott. Additional funding for this volume was provided by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and the LSA Research Office at the University of Michigan. The editors express their deepest gratitude to Maggie Mitchell for her painstaking copyediting of this volume.