Alexander Wynne, a former student of Richard Gombrich, is currently a lecturer in Buddhism at Mahidol University in Thailand and a translator for the prestigious Clay Sanskrit Library. He is the author of books such as The Origin of Buddhist Meditation (2007), Buddhism: An Introduction (2015) and The Book of Liberation I: A New Edition and Translation of the Moksa Section of the Mahabharata's Santiparvan (forthcoming).