Modern translation studies have it that translation is a rewriting of an original text. All rewritings, whatever their intention, reflect a certain ideology and a poetics and as such manipulate literature in a given society in a given way. Is it true in the domain of religious and philosophical texts translation? The present research, by drawing upon the theories from modern translation studies, takes the Hong Kong bilingual translator C. C. Jane Lai and her translation of Zen Buddhist texts as a case study. It investigates how the translator made her own interpretative endeavors and represented the host cultural identity through transmitting certain religious texts. The major focus is on the strategies and norms adopted and the cultural implications encoded in the receptor language culture.