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David L. McMahan is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Rethinking Meditation: Buddhist Meditative Practices in Ancient and Modern Worlds, The Making of Buddhist Modernism, Vision: Metaphor and Visionary Imagery in Mahāyāna Buddhism, and numerous articles on Mahāyāna Buddhism in South Asia and Buddhism in the modern world. He is also the co-editor of Buddhism, Meditation and Science, editor of Buddhism in the Modern World. His recent work has focused on the interface of Buddhism and modernity and addresses the various ways that Buddhist and Buddhist-derived meditation are understood and practiced in different cultural and historical contexts, ancient and modern.