Guest Editorial

Author Biographies

• Karen O’Brien-Kop, University of Roehampton

  Karen O’Brien-Kop is lecturer in Asian religions and ethics at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her recent monograph is titled Rethinking ‘Classical Yoga’ and Buddhism: Meditation, Metaphors and Materiality (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). She has published articles in Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religions of South Asia and is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies (2020).

• Lidia Wojtczak, SOAS, University of London

  Lidia Wojtczak is lecturer in Sanskrit at SOAS University of London. Her publications and teaching centre on Sanskrit poetry and aesthetic theory, the intellectual traditions of the Indian subcontinent, and menstrual taboos in South Asia. She is the secretary of the International Indology Graduate Research Symposium.