Author: Arthur Waley
Year: 2011
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Religion
Cultures: Japan, China
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Excerpt from Zen Buddhism, and Its Relation to Art
The reason of this is that very little of the native literature which deals with Zen has yet been translated, perhaps because it is written in early Chinese colloquial, a language the study of which has been almost wholly neglected by Europeans and also (to judge by some of their attempts to translate it) by the Japanese themselves.
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