About the Author:
Christopher I. Beckwith is DistinguishedProfessor of Central Eurasian studies at Indiana University,Bloomington, and the recipient of a MacArthur Award. He has publishedextensively on Central Eurasian history and linguistics, including The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: A History of the Struggle for GreatPower among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early MiddleAges (Princeton,1987/ revised ed. 1993), Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages (Brill, 2002), Koguryo, Language of Japan's Continental Relatives (Brill, 2004/ 2nd ed. 2007), Phoronyms: Classifiers, Class Nouns, and the Pseudopartitive Construction (Peter Lang, 2007), Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (Princeton, 2009), Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World (Princeton, 2012), and Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (Princeton, 2015).
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