An authority on Buddhist philosophy, born in China and educated at Kong-ka Monastery in eastern Tibet, Chang came to the United States after World War II and was a research fellow at the Bollingen Foundation in New York from 1955 onward.
Chang wrote a number of books, including The Practice of Zen (1959), The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa (1962), and The Essential Teachings of the Tibetan Mysticism (1963). He also wrote an important review of the book The Third Eye (1958), by Lop-sang Rampa, published in Tomorrow magazine as part of an expose of the author. The Practice of Zen, Chang’s most well-known work, is considered a significant contribution to English literature on Zen Buddhism.
