We are grateful for the grant funding from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and support from the Centre for East Asian Studies (renamed Centre for China Studies in November 2012) that made possible the workshop held at CUHK in May 2012 from which this book originated. We would like to thank all who participated and made important contributions to the workshop as either presenters or commentators, particularly David Faure, Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Rongdao Lai, André Laliberté, Rebecca Nedostup, Brian Nichols, David Palmer, and Erik Schicketanz. We are thankful also to the wonderful staff and graduate students of the Centre for East Asian Studies for their logistical support during the workshop, above all the principal event coordinator, Esther Yip. We would like to thank as well Vincent Goossaert, Paul Katz, John Lagerwey, and Izumi Nakayama for their helpful advice and suggestions as we worked on the manuscript. And we are grateful to our teachers, Frederic Wakeman Jr. and Wen-hsin Yeh, for supporting our initial interest in Chinese Buddhists in the modern period. Finally, we wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to the Columbia University Press series editor Chün-fang Yü, to the anonymous manuscript reviewers for their valuable comments, and to editors Christine Dunbar and Wendy Lochner and the copyeditor, Mike Ashby, for their tireless efforts and support in seeing this volume to completion.