Dale S. Wright is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles.^[1][2] He is author of numerous books on Zen Buddhism. He and Steven Heine co-edited a series of books including The Koan: Text and Context in Zen Buddhism, The Zen Canon: Textual Foundations of Zen Buddhism, Zen Classics: Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism, and Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Buddhist Theory in Practice.