JOHN ROSS CARTER is Professor of Philosophy and Religion, the Robert Ho Professor in Asian Studies, and the Director of Chapel House at Colgate University. He has lived in Sri Lanka on several occasions, travelled there many times, and has taken Colgate students on study tours there three times in the 1980s and 1990s. Recently he has received the D.Litt degree (honorus causa) from Kelaniya University in Sri Lanka. He has published numerous articles and works on the Theravāda tradition (Hokuseido Press, SUNY), was a co-translator with Mahinda Palihawadana of the Dhammapada (Oxford) and has published studies dealing with the thought of the Pure Land tradition in Japan (Otani and Book East).
