The Zen Buddhist Philosophy of D.T. Suzuki with Rossa Ó Muireartaigh
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I Think the Damage He Did to Japanese Philosophy, Ok?
I think the damage he did was just his obsession of orientalism, ok? Just the way cansik went on about the east and the west. And that was picked up by a lot of intellectuals at the time,. i think it's kind of poisoned the spread of japanese philosophy. You know, peoplet people's automatic default assumption is that japanese theory is so different to our way of thinking, we'll never understand it. That's just such an wrong so much the wrong approach. I would criticise him for listening to bad music in later life. But when youant mi resto i, it's bein the time without the internet, ime without
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