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Hari Shankar Shukla, born in 1950 at Balua, Bhojpur (Ara), Bihar in a traditioanl learned family, is presently Professor of Pali in the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He finished his higher education in Patna and Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, Nalanda, Bihar. He has been with the department of Pali and Buddhist Studies, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, since 1979. He has published several articles in the field of Pali and Buddhist Studies. Prof. Shukla visited U.S.A., Thailand, and Cambodia t to attend the conference and deliver the lecture.

Lalji 'Shravak', born in 1960 in district Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, India, is presently Professor of Pali in the Deparment of Pali and Buddhist Studies at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He finished his higher education at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. After obtaining his Ph.D., he received Sino-Indian Cultural Exchange Fellowship of the Government of India for two years to study Chinese at Beijing, China.

Specialization of Prof. Lalji is in Abhidharma Studies (With special reference to Pali, Sanskrit and Chinese Buddhist Texts). Focusing on Abhidhrama texts, he has been engaged in extensively extinct buddhist texts from Chinese into Hindi. He is the Executive Editor of the Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies.