Dr. Varish Panigrahi has translated and written books and papers on Mahayana and Zen Buddhism. He completed B. Tech. Hons at IIT Kharagpur, and MS plus Ph.D. degrees at U. of Illinois, Urbana. He has worked for three decades as a technocrat in the United States.Since 1997 he has been living in Bhubaneswar where he started a software company.He is the President of KalingaZEN Advaita Mahasangha and devotes all his time to societal Development and writing. Debi Prasad Dash completed the MA degree in Philosophy from Utkal University and worked as a Research Assistant at Kalinga ZEN Advaita Mahasangha.