Minor correction here: ‘Hakuin’ could not have intended anything by the book, because he died in 1769 and it is his tradition being criticized. All the sources on The Sound of One Hand seem to attribute it to a (still unknown?) pseudonymous Japanese Buddhist author in the 1900s.
Minor correction here: ‘Hakuin’ could not have intended anything by the book, because he died in 1769 and it is his tradition being criticized. All the sources on The Sound of One Hand seem to attribute it to a (still unknown?) pseudonymous Japanese Buddhist author in the 1900s.
I think I misinterpreted something as implying that the author had written under Hakuin’s name.