<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">We studied Kitaro in my undergraduate program, 1968-1972. He was most known for "translating" western philosophical content into Japanese Buddhist context. I encountered him again much later in the context of Christopher Alexander's Quality Without A Name (QWAN) when several authors of conference papers tried to find <i>'basho</i>' in Alexander's <i>Timeless Way of Building</i>.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">His influence would be more pronounced in philosophy circles and topics like metaphysics and epistemology, but mostly in aesthetics — as far as I know. His influence within Zen, far less so. <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Tue, Mar 1, 2022, at 3:43 PM, Jon Zingale wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nishida-kitaro/">https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nishida-kitaro/</a><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);">I met a ceramicist this week. He pointed me to Nishida. Any thoughts?<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>.-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - .<br></div><div>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br></div><div>Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 <a href="http://bit.ly/virtualfriam">bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><br></div><div>un/subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br></div><div>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a><br></div><div>archives:<br></div><div>5/2017 thru present <a href="https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/">https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/</a><br></div><div>1/2003 thru 6/2021 <a href="http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/">http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>