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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

William Stoddart
was born in Carstairs, Scotland, lived most

of his life in London, England, and now lives in Windsor, Ontario.

He studied modern languages, and later medicine, at the universities

of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin. He was a close associate of both

Frithjof Schuon and Titus Burckhardt during the lives of these leading

perennialists and translated several of their works into English. For

many years Stoddart was also assistant editor of the British journal

Studies in Comparative Religion
. Pursuing his interests in compara-

tive religion, he has traveled widely in Europe, North Africa, India,

Sri Lanka, and Japan. Stoddart’s works include
Outline of Hinduism

(1993; 2007 edition titled
Hinduism and Its Spiritual Masters
),
Out-

line of Buddhism
(1998),
Outline of Sufism: The Essentials of Islamic

Spirituality
(2012),
Invincible Wisdom: Quotations from the Scriptures,

Saints, and Sages of All Times and Places
(2008),
What Do the Reli-

gions Say About Each Other?
Christian Attitudes towards Islam, Islamic

Attitudes towards Christianity
(2008), and
What Does Islam Mean in

Today’s World?
(2012). His essential writings were published by World

Wisdom as
Remembering in a World of Forgetting: Thoughts on Tradi-

tion and Postmodernism
(2008).

Joseph A. Fitzgerald
studied Comparative Religion at Indiana

University, where he also earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree. For

over twenty years he has traveled extensively throughout the Buddhist

world, including visits to Bhutan, Mongolia, Cambodia, Burma, Thai-

land, Nepal, India, and Japan. He is an award-winning editor whose

previous publications include
Honen the Buddhist Saint: Essential

Writings and Official Biography
(2006),
The Essential Sri Anandamayi

Ma: Life and Teachings of a 20th Century Saint from India
(2007),
The

Way and the Mountain: Tibet, Buddhism, and Tradition
(2008),
An Il-

lustrated Introduction to Taoism: The Wisdom of the Sages
(2010),
The

Original Gospel of Ramakrishna
(2011), and
The Wisdom of Ananda

Coomaraswamy
(with S.D.R. Singam) (2011)
.
Joseph lives with his

wife and daughters in Bloomington, Indiana.

World Wisdom Titles on Buddhism

The Buddha Eye:

An Anthology of the Kyoto School and Its Contemporaries
,

edited by Frederick Franck, 2004

A Buddhist Spectrum: Contributions to Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
,

by Marco Pallis, 2004

The Essential Shinran: A Buddhist Path of True Entrusting
,

edited by Alfred Bloom, 2007

The Golden Age of Zen: Zen Masters of the T’ang Dynasty
,

by John C.H. Wu, 2004

Honen the Buddhist Saint: Essential Writings and Official Biography
,

edited by Joseph A. Fitzgerald, 2006

An Il ustrated Outline of Buddhism:

The Essentials of Buddhist Spirituality
,

by William Stoddart, 2013

The Laughing Buddha of Tofukuji:

The Life of Zen Master Keido Fukushima
,

by Ishwar Harris, 2004

Living in Amida’s Universal Vow: Essays in Shin Buddhism
,

edited by Alfred Bloom, 2004

Naturalness: A Classic of Shin Buddhism
,

by Kenryo Kanamatsu, 2002

Samdhong Rinpoche: Uncompromising Truth for a

Compromised World: Tibetan Buddhism and Today’s World
,

edited by Donovan Roebert, 2006

Treasures of Buddhism
,

by Frithjof Schuon, 1993

The Way and the Mountain: Tibet, Buddhism, and Tradition
,

by Marco Pallis, 2008

Zen Buddhism: A History, Vol. 1: India and China
,

by Heinrich Dumoulin, 2005

Zen Buddhism: A History, Vol. 2: Japan
,

by Heinrich Dumoulin, 2005