J.C. Cleary has died.

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Here [we salute] the imperially appointed chief monk Master Xuetang: those who can sympathize with and appreciate such rare fine music are bound to be few. He has wished to print and to put into wide circulation old texts of the recorded sayings [of Zen masters] that are rarely seen [nowadays] in the Zen communities. While [thus] seeking out true Buddhists, he has revived this literature, to enable people to come in contact with its mysteries and gain the use of them. Thus does Xuetang propagate the Path of the ancestral teachers of Zen and bestow blessings on later generations. ~ from The Recorded Sayings of Linji, "Preface by Wufeng Puxiu", Translated from the Chinese Taishö Volume 47, Number 1985 by J. C. Cleary

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