Thanks to George Keyworth's arrangement, on June 2 2017 we visited
Thomas Kirchner, an American Zen monk at
Hanazono University International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism 花園大学国際禅学研究所. He has worked with
Ruth Fuller Sasaki to translate Linji Yixuan's
Record of Linji 臨濟錄
, which is available for download from here. (I wrote a review of the book in. Journal of Chinese Religion, vol. 37 (2009): 133—138. ) He told us a lot of personal stories about working with Ruth Sasaki,
Iriya Yoshitaka 入矢義高 , and
Yanagida Seizan 柳田聖山(also known as Yokoi). He also showed us several binders of original translations and notes. These are all part of modern Zen history and need to be rescued from dust collecting.
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| Iriya Yoshitaka Notes to Rinzai roku, photo by Jiang Wu |
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| Yanagida Seizan's note and translation, photo by Jiang Wu |
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| Yanagida Seizan's note and translation, photo by Jiang Wu |
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| Yanagida Seizan's note and translation, photo by Jiang Wu |
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| Yanagida Seizan's note and translation, photo by Jiang Wu |
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| Ruth Sasaki's note and translation, photo by Jiang Wu |
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