The publication is the starting point for discussion of a more general kind – how to evolve modernity from historical wisdom, and how to deduce the future by tracking the traditional spirit from within, which is also the key debate raised byFundamentals. ...
Zen Buddhism and its Relation to Art(London 1922), and Hoseki Shin’ichi Hisamatsu,Zen and Fine Arts(Kyoto 1958), which Maciunas saw in the New York Public Library. Of Hisamatsu’s book, he wrote: “Zen — flash of sudden Enlightment [sic], vision of tao.” See ...