Kirill Solonin is Professor of School of Chinese Classics at Renmin University of China. His research focuses on Chinese Buddhism, Xixia Buddhism, Buddhist philology and Xixia languages and literature. Among his numerous publications are dozens of papers mainly related to topics such as Xixia and North China Buddhism, “Dīpaṃkara in the Tangut context” p. 1-2, AOH, 63（4）and 65（1）.