Harumi Ziegler received her MA and PhD in Chinese Buddhist studies at UCLA, with a 2001 dissertation entitled “The Sinification of Buddhism as Found in an Early Chinese Indigenous Sutra: A Study and Translation of the Fo-shuo Ching-tu San-mei Ching (The Samadhi-Sutra on Liberation through Purification Spoken by the Buddha).” Though now retired from the Rare Books division of the UCLA Young Research Library, Dr. Ziegler is currently working on an English translation of the Hongmingji and the Fayuan zhulin (fascicles 21–40) for the Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research.