The Role and Significance of Korean Seon(zen) in the Study of East Asian Buddhism_Zen Orientalism
Channel: LotusPaper
Date: 28/07/2020

Hu Shih had a strong sense of the history of China and he saw Indian Buddhism as a “virus” which had infected the nation. Ch’an was the Chinese correction ofthe Indian excesses of mysticism. Ch’an was practical. His work in the U.S. may have shown most clearly when he declared that Shen-hui was a revolutionary figure–another reformer.