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Carl Bielefeldt
Walter Y. Evans-Wentz professor of Oriental Philosophies, Religions, and Ethics, emeritus
Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus
Former Co-Direct of the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1980)
M.A., University of California, Berkeley (1972)
B.A., San Francisco State College (1966)
A graduate of UC Berkeley, Professor Bielefeldt specializes in East Asian Buddhism, with particular emphasis on the intellectual history of the Zen tradition. He is the author of Dōgen's Manuals of Zen Meditation and other works on early Japanese Zen, and serves as editor of the Sōtō Zen Text Project. Former Co-Director of the HCBSS