CHARLES B. JONES is associate professor emeritus of Religion and Cultures at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He earned a PhD at the University of Virginia in 1996 and specializes in East Asian Buddhism. He has published in the areas of Buddhism in Taiwan, interreligious dialogue, the Jesuit missions in China, gentry Buddhism in late Ming China, and Pure Land Buddhism. Among his recent titles is Pure Land: History, Tradition, and Practice (Shambhala, 2021).