Òscar Pujol es doctor en sánscrito por la Benares Hindu University. Ha sido director de los Institutos Cervantes de Nueva Delhi y Rio de Janeiro y director de programa educativo de Casa Asia. Es autor de muchos libros, entre los que destaca el Diccionario Sánscrito-Español, La ilusión fecunda: el pensamiento de Samkara, La sabiduría del bosque: antología de las principales Upanisads y Rasa: el placer estético en la tradición india.

Òscar Pujol received his doctorate in Sanskrit from Benares Hindu University. He has been director of the Cervantes Institutes of New Delhi and Rio de Janeiro as well as the director of the educational program of Casa Asia. He is the author of many books, including the Sanskrit-Spanish Dictionary, The Fertile Illusion: The Thought of Samkara, The Wisdom of the Forest: An Anthology of the Major Upanisads, and Rasa: Aesthetic Pleasure in the Indian Tradition.