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Reiner Schürmann

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The Loss of the Origin in Soto Zen and in Meister Eckhart

The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review 1978 Reiner Schürmann 10 citations

THE LOSS OF THE ORIGIN IN SOTO ZEN AND IN MEISTER ECKHART SEVERAL JAPANESE AUTHORS who have come into contact with the Western tradition have underlined similarities between key concepts in Zen Buddhism and in Meister Eckhart.1 Sometimes their statements, for instance Suzuki's, betray a rather superficial acquaintance with the schools of thought that intersectinEckhart'shighly syncretistic...