Religion East & West
Issue 1, Inaugural 
Issue 2, Ecology and Ethics
in Religious Traditions
Issue 3, Resonances, Adaptations
& Misunderstandings
Issue 4, Contemporary Crisis,
Ancient Truths
Issue 5, The Universal Grammar
of Religion
Issue 6, Self and Other, Emptiness
and Plenitude
Issue 7, Interreligious Dialogue
and Spiritual Hospitality
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The Editorial Committee
Rev. Heng Sure holds
a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley
and an M.A. in Oriental languages from the University
of California at Berkeley. He serves as director of
the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, lectures widely on
Buddhism, Buddhist texts, meditation, and comparative
religion, and is active in interfaith dialogue on several
continents. From May 1977 to October 1979, he
undertook a silent pilgrimage along the California Coast
Highway, making a full reverential bow every third step
from Los Angeles to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
in Mendocino County, where he had been ordained as a
Buddhist monk in 1976.
Bhikshuni Heng Hsien holds a Ph.D. in South
and Southeast Asian studies from the University of California
at Berkeley and an M.A. in Mediterranean studies from
Brandeis University. She is a Sanskrit specialist and
translates Buddhist texts from Chinese and Sanskrit.
She was ordained at Gold Mountain Monastery as a Buddhist
nun in 1972.
Snjezana Akpinar holds a Ph.D. in Turkish
studies from the University of Istanbul and a degree
in Oriental studies from the University of Belgrade.
She is president of Dharma Realm Buddhist University
and lectures on Central Asian influences on Islam and
comparative studies.
Ron Epstein holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist
studies from the University of California at Berkeley
and an M.A. in Chinese language and literature from
the University of Washington. He recently retired from
teaching Buddhist studies and world religions at San
Francisco State University. His research interests include
the Mahayana sutras, Yogacara Buddhism and applied Buddhist
ethics. His many publications and translations include
Buddhism A to Z and The Heart of Prajna Paramita
Sutra with the No-Stand Gatha Explanation and Prose
Commentary of Tripitaka Master Hsüan Hua.
Dr. Epstein’s educational websites include “Resources
for the Study of Buddhism,” and “Resources
for the Study of Religion.”
Douglas Powers holds an M.A. in theology
and philosophy from the Graduate Theological Union and
a B.A. and M.A. from the University of the Redlands.
He currently teaches Western philosophy.
David Rounds, editor
of Religion East and West, holds a B.A.
from Harvard College and an M.A. in Buddhist studies
and translation from Dharma Realm Buddhist University.
A disciple of Master Hsüan Hua for over thirty
years, he has authored five books and has collaborated
in the translation of several Mahayana texts, including
the Shurangama Sutra.
Martin J. Verhoeven
received his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University
of Wisconsin, Madison. His area of specialty is the
process of East/West acculturation, particularly in
the European and American encounter with Buddhism. He
has published extensively, most recently as editor of
the reissue of Paul Carus’ The Gospel of Buddha.
He was a Buddhist monk for eighteen years and has lectured
throughout Asia, Europe, the United States and Canada.
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