John R. McRae is a Professor of East Asian Buddhism and the author of Seeing Through Zen and The Northern School and the Formation of Early Ch'an Buddhism (Studies in East Asian Buddhism, No 3). He has taught at both Indiana and Cornell Universities, and is currently a lecturer at Komazawa University in Tokyo. Professor McRae wrote the introduction for Journal of Chinese Religion 30, "Religion as Revolution in Chinese Historiography: Hu Shih (1891-1962) on Shen-hui (684-758)," Cahiers d'Extême-Asie 12 (2001), and "Looking at lineage: A different way of presenting Chan Buddhism," Chung-Hwa Buddhist Journal 13 (2000).