文件名称：Theory of Error-correcting Codes, Part II.djvu
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The title reminds me of this historical oddity: In the distant past, Chinese scholars, some of them imaginary, traveled to the West (that is, India) in search of Urtcxt Buddhist scriptures. About fifteen centuries later, this process has come full circle, and Western scholars, some of them all too real, trawl to the East to discover and render into Western terms not so much the scriptures as the spirit and gestures of Eastern philosophy. This readable and accurate book, by a pioneering scholar of Buddhism, is a very creditable product of this movement. Even its tone of intellectual severity and moral earnestncssone is reminded at times more of Samuel Richardson than of Chuang Tsu--is entirely appropriate, for Zen Buddhism is the extreme puritanical branch of Eastern my