Carl Bielefeldt
Professor
Religious Studies
Director of Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies
Building 70, Room 71C
carl@stanford.edu

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 Dôgen's Manuals of Zen Meditation and other works on early Japanese Zen, and serves as editor of the Soto Zen Text Project.

Paul Harrison
George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies
Building 70, 72E
paul@stanford.edu

Professor Harrison, a graduate of Australian National University, works on Buddhist literature, especially that of the Mahayana. His research interests also include the history of the Tibetan canon and the study of Buddhist manuscripts. His publications include a number of editions, translations and studies of Buddhist texts, such as The Samadhi of Direct Encounter with the Buddhas of the Present, and he is co-editor of the series Buddhist Manuscripts in the Schøyen Collection.

Irene Lin
Associate Director
Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies
Encina Commons 102
Building 70, Room 71F
ihl@stanford.edu

Dr. Lin holds a juris doctorate from the University of Southern California, Law Center and is a member of the State Bar of California. She also holds an MA and a Ph.D. from the Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, specializing in East Asian Buddhism. She has published several articles on divine boys in the Japanese religious imaginaire. Dr. Lin ran the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies from its inception in 1997 to 2001 and has returned from overseas in 2007 to run the Center again. She is fluent in Japanese, Mandarin, and Taiwanese.