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Professor A.K. Narain is Emeritus Professor of History and of Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA) and Founder-Director of the Bhikkhu Jagdish Kashyap Institute of Buddhist and Asian Studies, Sarnath, Varanasi (India). Formerly he has been Manindra Chandra Nandy Professor of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Banaras Hindu University. He has been Chairperson of the Buddhist Studies Programme at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the Founder of the International Association of Buddhist Studies and has been the Editor-in-Chief of its periodical the JIABS. He is now the Editor-in-Chief of The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies (IIJBS).

D.C. Ahir (born 1928, Punjab) is a reputed scholar of Buddhist studies, and has made notable contribution to the history of Buddhism during the last 42 years. He retired as Director to the Government of India in February 1986, and since then is fully engaged in enriching literature. He already has more than forty published works to his credit, besides numerous articles on Buddhism. In appreciation of his noble and notable contribution to the Buddhist Literature as a Distinguished Scholarand Author, the Maha Bodhi Society of India, Sarnath conferred on him on 30 November 2001 the Honorary Title of Buddha Sahitya Shiromani.