About - Robert E. BUSWELL

Robert E. Buswell, Jr.

Professor of Chinese and Korean Buddhism and director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include The Zen Monastic Experience: Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea (Princeton University Press, 1992), Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul's Korean Way of Zen (University of Hawaii Press, 1991) and The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea: The Vajrasamâdhi-sûtra, A Buddhist Apocrypon (Princeton University Press, 1989). He is also the editor of Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha (University of Hawaii Press, 1990) and coeditor (with R. Gimello) of Paths to Liberation: The Mârga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought (University of Hawaii Press, 1 992). He is presently working on a translation and study of the Ch'an-yao (Essentials of Ch'an) by the Yiian-dynasty Lin-chi master Kao-feng Yuan-miao (1239-1295).