About the Author

The author of this blog, Roxann Giuliano, is a third year undergraduate student of Psychology, Anthropology, and the Study of Religions at the University of California, Los Angeles. Working with Professor Gregory Schopen, Roxann undertook this research venture as a tangential project to his upper division course in Indian Buddhism. The purpose of this blog is to share her data and research so that it may be of aid to any student or scholar who takes an interest in this subject, or in the text of the Mahāparinibbāna sutta as a whole.