Juan Arnau was born in Valencia in 1968. He is the author of a series of books and essays, "Fundamentos de la vía media" and "Abandono de la discusión de Nagarjuna" ("Nagarjuna's Fundamental Verses of The Middle Way" and "Nagarjuna's The End of Disputes") (Siruela), "La palabra frente al vacío" (The Word and the Void"), "Arte de probar" ("The Art of Trying") and "Cosmologías de India" ("The Cosmologies of India") (Fondo de Cultura Económica), "Antropología del budismo" ("The Anthropology of Buddhism") (Kairós), "Rendir el sentido" ("Making Sense"), "Elogio del asombro" ("In Praise of Amazement") and "Vasubandhu" ("Vasubandhu") (Pre-Textos), "La Leyenda de Buda" ("The Legend of Buddha") (Alianza) and "Manual de filosofía portátil" ("The Portable Philosophy Manual") (Atalanta). He has also published "El cristal de Spinoza" ("Spinoza's Glass") in the same series to great critical and general acclaim.