Warning: this is a rant post. Although I have happily taken up with a local Soto Zen group in my area, one of the first challenges I’ve noticed is that the group is probably 99% white, and have little or no knowledge of Japanese culture or language, despite the tradition they’ve inherited. This came intoContinue reading “Liturgical Language and Start-up Buddhism”
Category Archives: Chinese
The Challenges of Romanizing Chinese Language
Recently, I was reading a couple old-school fantasy novels set in the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons and Dragons: Horselords and Dragonwall. These novels, part of the Empires trilogy, revolve around a fantasy re-telling of the Mongol invasion of Song-Dynasty China. Dragonwall, in particular, centered on the fictional land of Shou Lung, an analog toContinue reading “The Challenges of Romanizing Chinese Language”
Gleanings in Buddha-Fields 