Soto Zen Ancestors in China
The translations were made during James Mitchell's tenure as visiting professor at the Foreign Affairs Graduate College of the People's Republic of China, Beijing, with the indispensable assistance of Prof. Yulie Lou, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Beijing University, after a careful examination and comparison of the Song-period histories.The prefatory essays and commentary were added by James Mitchell after independent study at the University of California, Berkeley.  He has written several articles on Buddhist topics, and he began Buddhist practice at San Francisco Zen Center in 1969.