Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya is Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi. She has also taught at the Nagoya State University in Japan. She did PhD in Religious studies from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Her book, Engaged Buddhism in Japan (Tokyo, 2005 in Japanese) won two academic awards in Japan. Her recent publication is Buddhist Exchanges between India and Japan: Japanese Buddhist Encountering India and Modern Buddhist Studies, Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya and Togawa Masahiko (ed.), London and New York: Routledge, 2025.