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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:17:30 +0100
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- From: torkel@SICS.SE
- Subject: Re: Asians
- Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon,
- 25 Jan 93 10:56:40 -0600. <9301251700.AA20869@sics.se>
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- >Really? I had no idea. I thought, for no real reason, that there were
- >a lot of Chinese contributions.
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- There are, but mostly in the form of translations of and commentaries on
- Indian works. But there is of course a lot of Zen (Chan) stuff that originated
- in China. One of these books is even known as a "sutra": the sutra of Hui-Neng.
-