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Pamela D. Winfield
Pamela D. Winfield is Professor of Buddhist Studies at Elon University in North Carolina. Her article “To Tame an Ox or To Catch a Fish: A Zen Reading of The Old Man and the Sea” will be published in Zen Roots, Zen Branches: A Festschrift in Honor of Steven Heine edited by Charles Prebish and On-cho Ng (Springer Press, forthcoming).
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