Paul Groner has had a long career as a professor in the department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In addition to numerous articles on various aspects of Japanese Buddhism, he is the author of Saichō: The Establishment of the Japanese Tendai School, Ryōgen and Mount Hiei: Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century, and has translated Akira Hirakawa's History of Early Indian Buddhism into English. While he has not formally submitted self-composed entries to the DDB, Paul has a great deal to do with its original creation, as it was in his Buddhist texts readings classes at UVa during 1986-7 that I (Charles Muller, DDB editor) first began to compile the terms from the Hasshū kōyō that would end up comprising the start of the DDB. Much of my rendering of difficult Buddhist terminology into English during this early stage was based on Paul's interpretations. It was also Paul who introduced me to the basic East Asian Buddhist reference tools (at the same time imparting to me some measure of his own well-regarded scholarly precision and thoroughness), and who has continued to encourage me in the pursuit of this project over the ensuing years of its development. [4/21/2007]