**About the Author**

**Tsunehiko Sugiki** is a Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Tokyo (October 2000). His specialization is Philology of South Asian Buddhism (Buddhist Tantrism and Buddhist Ethics in particular) and Religious Studies. His publications include *Sam. varakei Mikkyo no Shos ¯ o¯*—*Gyoja, Seichi, Shintai, ¯ Jikan, and Shisei*—(*Aspects of Sam. vara Esoteric Buddhism: Practitioner, Holy Site, Body, Time, and Death and Life*, 2007, Tokyo: Toshindo); "Oblation, Non-conception, and Body: Systems of Psychosomatic Fire Oblation in Esoteric Buddhism in Medieval South Asia" (in *Homa Variations: The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue durée*, edited by Richard K. Payne and Michael Witzel, 2016, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 167–13); and "Warriors Who Do Not Kill in War: A Buddhist Interpretation of the Warrior's Role in Relation to the Precept against Killing" (*Religions* 11 (10) (2020): 530 (1–20)).
