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This book has been in preparation for many years. Over the course of writing it, I have received feedback and encouragement from many people. Thanks are due first to my parents, Richard E. Nance and Ann M. Nance, who have been unfailing in their support. At the University of Chicago, I had the good fortune to be taught by a remarkable group of scholars, each of whom contributed in different ways to the work represented here. The members of my dissertation committee—Matthew Kapstein, Paul J. Griffiths, and Sheldon Pollock—provided invaluable guidance on issues both philological and philosophical. While at Chicago, I also learned a great deal from other faculty members inside and outside Swift Hall, among them Yigal Bronner, Steven Collins, James Conant, Arnold Davidson, Wendy Doniger, Franklin Gamwell, Ngawang Jorden, Bruce Lincoln, Leonard Linsky, Shirō Matsumoto, Lawrence McCrea, H. V. N. Rao, and Michael Silverstein. For financial support during my years of graduate study, I am grateful to the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the University of Chicago Committee on Southern Asian Studies. Since 2007, the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University has provided me with a wonderfully supportive institutional home, and I am indebted to its faculty for a very stimulating—and ongoing—conversation about the ideas developed here. I also wish to thank the faculty of Indiana University’s Department of Central Eurasian Studies, most especially Christopher Atwood, Christopher Beckwith, and Elliot Sperling.
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