Carl Bielefeldt
Online Texts

On Early Japanese Zen texts:

“Filling the Zen Shū: Notes on the Jisshū yōdō ki.” Cahiers d'Extrême Asie 7 (1993-94), pp. 221-248.  Reprinted in Bernard Faure, ed., Chan Buddhism in Ritual Contexts, pp. 179-210.  New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

“Disarming the Superpowers:  The abhijñā in Eisai and Dōgen.” In Dōgen zenji kenkyū ronshū 道元禅師研究論集, ed. by Daihonzan Eiheiji Daionki Kyoku 大本山永平寺大遠忌局, pp. 1018-1046.  Fukui-ken: Eiheiji, 2002.

“Kokan Shiren and the Sectarian Uses of History.” In Jeffrey Mass, ed.,  The Origins of Japan's Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century, pp. 295-317.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

“No-Mind and Sudden Awakening:  Thoughts on the Soteriology of a Kamakura Zen Text.”  In Robert Buswell and Robert Gimello, eds., Paths to Liberation: The Mārga and Its Transformations in Buddhist Thought, pp. 475-504.  Studies in East Asian Buddhism 7.  Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992.

On Dōgen and Sōtō Zen:

Sōtō Zen Texts. A multivolume set of annotated translations of the complete scriptural canon of the Sôtôshû, edited with G. Foulk. In progress.

"Translating Dogen: Thoughts on the Soto Zen Text Project." Lecture, Mt. Tremper, N.Y., 2004.

"Sanka suru bukkyō ni mukete 参加する仏教に向けて [Toward a Participatory Buddhism]." In Nara 奈良and Azuma , ed., Dōgen no nijūisseiki 道元の二十一世紀 [Dōgen's Twenty-first Century], pp. 121-132. Tokyo: Tokyo Shoseki, 2001. (English version published as "Toward a Participatory Buddhism: Thoughts on Dogen's Zen in America," Mountain Record 21:1 [Fall 2002], pp. 28-39.)

"Living With Dōgen: Thoughts on the Relevance of His Thought." Proceedings of the Symposium Dogen Zen and Its Relevance for Our Time, pp. 123-133. Tokyo: Sōtōshū Shūmuchō, 2000.

"Buddha Nature, Buddha Practice: Reflections on Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō. " In Proceedings of the International Conference on Korean Sŏn Buddhism. Seoul:  Bibaek Institute, 1998. (Reprinted as "The Mountain Spirit: Dōgen, Gary Snyder, and Critical Buddhism," Zen Quarterly 11:1 [1999], pp. 18-24.)

"Dōgen Studies in America: Thoughts on the State of the Field."  Zen kenkyūjo nenpō 禅研究所年報 3 (1992), endmatter pp. 1-17.

Miscellaneous articles, lectures, and reviews:

"Practice." In D. Lopez, ed., Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism, pp. 229-244. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

"Tensions in American Buddhism." Religion and Ethics Newsweekly (6 July 2001 cover story).

"Prescriptive and Descriptive Approaches to the Threefold Discipline: A Response to Prof. Ishigami." In Proceedings of the Conference on Zen and Nenbutsu, Los Angeles: Bukkyo Daigaku, 2000.

"The One Vehicle and the Three Jewels: On Japanese Sectarianism and Some Ecumenical Alternatives." Buddhist-Christian Studies 10 (1990), pp. 5-16.

"T'an ching (Platform Sutra)." Philosophy East and West 25:2 (4/75), pp. 197-212. (With L. Lancaster.)

"Buddhism in Mountains and Rivers Without End."  Lecture, Stanford University, 1998.

"Zen Wars III: Revenge of the West." Lecture, Lund University, 1998.

Review of Bowring, The Religious Traditions of Japan 500-1600; and Swanson and Chilson, ed., Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions. SSJR Bulletin Supplement 2006.

Review of Buswell, The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea.  History of Religions 31:2 (11/91), p. 210.

Review of James Dobbins, Jōdo Shinshū:  Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan.  Journal of Japanese Studies 17:2 (Summer, 1991), pp. 381-386.

Review of Tanabe and Tanabe, ed., The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Culture.  Journal of Asian Studies, 49:1 (2/90), pp. 173-175.

Review of Collcutt, Five Mountains:  The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan.  Journal of Asian Studies 41:4 (8/82), pp. 841-843.

Review of Kodera, Dōgen's Formative Years in China.  Journal of Asian Studies 40:2 (2/81), pp. 387-89.