Philip Broadhead is Senior Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths College, University of London; Damien Keown is Professor of Buddhist Ethics at the same institution. Philip Broadhead is co-author of The Longman Handbook of Early Modern Europe (2001) and Damien Keown has written and edited several books which include Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (2005) and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2006).