Uri Kaplan received an MA from Yonsei University in Seoul and a PhD in Asian religions from Duke University. His work on the encounters of Buddhism and Confucianism with modernity has been published in the Journal of Korean Studies, Material Religion, Contemporary Buddhism, Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, Korean Studies, and Acta Koreana. He has completed a book manuscript dealing with Buddhist education in Korea, and is currently working on Buddhist apologetic literature in pre-modern China and Korea. For more details on his research see: https://huji.academia.edu/UriKaplan.