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u/ewk · 1 pointr/zen

All I've found is the claim by Suzuki, no translation or discussion of what is different.

Of course he has more than 50 titles and likely there is work that wasn't translated into English, not to mention the question of whether his globe trotting Tun-huang manuscripts hunting-and-publishing was all translated into English.

This is why I am curious to know what the academics in Berkeley are up to. This was published in 1983. I haven't read it yet, but references in other works suggest that it contains Japanese scholarship that is part of a larger conversation the rest of which hasn't been translated. If Berkley is listening to that conversation then they may have a catalog of either all Suzuki's works in any language and/or a complete list of what Suzuki took from Tun-huang collections (internationally) and/or what has been identified as Zen in Tun-haung collections internationally.

The recent post around here about the German who claimed (this year) that Suzuki was a Nationalist and Nazi sympathizer based on an old newspaper article written by Suzuki for a Japanese newspaper suggests that someone is reading through Suzuki's untranslated Japanese works... just in that case it was someone who didn't understand what they were reading and wanted to be famous (at least in Germany).

u/songhill · 1 pointr/zen