Dr. Keyworth is an Associate Professor in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan, co-editor of the Journal of Chan Buddhism (published by Brill). He received his Ph.D. in Chinese Buddhist Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Currently, he His research focuses on medieval Chinese and Japanese religious history and medieval manuscripts in China and Japan. Dr. Keyworth has published many peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books on the history of medieval Chinese and Japanese Buddhism. Topics he has published include (a) Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) Chinese Chan Buddhism and the figure of Juefan Huihong 覺範惠洪 (1071-1128); (b) Japanese pilgrims to Song China (e.g., Jōjin 成尋 [1011-1081]); (c) apocryphal or indigenous Chinese Buddhist scriptures, in particular, the curious case of the Shoulengyan jing 首楞嚴經 (*Śūraṃgama-sūtra, Shuryōgongyō, T no. 945) using Chinese, Khotanese, and Tibetan sources from Dunhuang (Tonkō 敦煌) and old manuscript editions from Japan; (d) Zen Buddhism in Edo (1603-1868) Japan and the figures of Kōchū Shin’etsu 東皐心越 (Donggao Xinyue, 1639-1696) and Kakumon Kantetsu 覚門貫徹 (d. 1730); (e) old Japanese manuscript Buddhist canons (issaikyō 一切経), especially from Nanatsudera 七寺, Amanosan Kongōji 天野山金剛寺, and the Matsuo shrine 松尾社 canon; (f) sacred transmitted documents (shōgyō 聖教) from medieval Japanese libraries.