| Author Quoted | Lao Tzu |
| Title Quoted | Tao Te Ching / Translated by John C.H. Wu |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1963/00/00 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1961 |
| Quotation | I am sending you John Wu's translation of the Tao Te Ching. The same place has published a translation of an important Chinese Zen work, the Platform Sutra of Hui Neng, but unfortunately the translation, though probably good in its own right, uses terminology that misses the real Zen meaning and does not correspond to the kind of language used by the best Zen men, like Suzuki. At least there should be some agreement on terms. |
| Quotation Source | The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.; Selected and edited by Christine M. Bochen. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1993, p. 141 |
| Letter to | Ernesto Cardenal |
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| Link to Merton's Copy |
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