Bill M. Mak is Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute, and is affiliated with the Robinson College, Cambridge University. His research focuses on the early Indian astral science from the perspective of history of science and knowledge production\/circulation in Eurasia during the first millennium CE. He examines the formation and dissemination of early Indian astral texts such as the G\u0101rg\u012byajyotisha<\/em> and the Yavana (\u201cGreco-Indian\u201d) texts in India, as well as their reception and transformation in East and Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n I have examined the ways astronomical and astrological concepts were treated in commentarial works such as Bha\u1e6d\u1e6dotpala\u2019s tenth-century commentaries on various treatises by the sixty-century polymath Var\u0101hamihira. Among the East Asian astral texts with a commentarial tradition that I am interested in, the two recensions of the eighth-century Xiuyao jing <\/em>of Amoghavajra as well as the later Yusi jing \u807f\u65af\u7d93 complex of texts provide another model of textual expansion and transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forthcoming book: Foreign Astral Sciences in China: From Six Dynasties to Northern Song<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBha\u1e6d\u1e6dotpala and Scientific Learning in Tenth-Century Kashmir,\u201d Journal of Indological Studies<\/em> (2018\u20132019) 30 & 31 (2018): 37\u201363.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Last Chapter of Sphujidhvaja\u2019s Yavanaj\u0101taka<\/em> Critically Edited with Notes,\u201d SCIAMVS<\/em> 14 (2013): 59\u2013148.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYusi Jing – A Treatise of \u2018Western\u2019 Astral Science in Chinese and Its Versified Version Xitian yusi jing<\/em>,\u201d SCIAMVS<\/em> 15 (2014): 105\u201369.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIndian Jyoti\u1e63a<\/em> Literature through the Lens of Chinese Buddhist Canon,\u201d Journal of Oriental Studies<\/em> 48, no. 1 (2015): 1\u201319.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMatching Stellar Ideas to the Stars: Remarks on the Translation of Indian Jyoti\u1e63a in the Chinese Buddhist Canon,\u201d in Cross-Cultural Transmission of Buddhist Texts: Theories and Practices of Translation<\/em>, ed. Dorji Wangchuk (Hamburg: Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Universit\u00e4t Hamburg, 2016), 139\u2013158.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVedic Astral Lore and Planetary Science in the G\u0101rg\u012byajyoti\u1e63a<\/em>,\u201d History of Science in South Asia<\/em> 7 (2019): 52\u201371.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Needham Research Institute, Cambridge \/ Robinson College, Cambridge University Bill M. Mak is Research Fellow at the Needham Research Institute, and is affiliated with the Robinson College, Cambridge University. His research focuses on the early Indian astral science from the perspective of history of science and knowledge production\/circulation in Eurasia during the first millennium CE. 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