Author Quoted | Hui-neng |
Title Quoted | Platform scripture / Hui-neng ; (transl. and with an introd. and notes by Wing-tsit Chan) |
Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1963/00/00 |
Imprint | New York : St. John's University Press. c1963 |
Quotation | I am sending you John Wu's translation of the Tao Te Ching. The same place has published a translation of an important Chinese Zen work, the Platform Sutra of Hui Neng, but unfortunately the translation, though probably good in its own right, uses terminology that misses the real Zen meaning and does not correspond to the kind of language used by the best Zen men, like Suzuki. At least there should be some agreement on terms. |
Journal | The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.; Selected and edited by Christine M. Bochen. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1993, p. 141 |
Link to Merton's Copy |
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