[Buddha-l] religious pluralism in Asia

[Stanley J. Ziobro II]

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Stephen Hodge wrote:

>  Dan Lusthaus wrote,
>
> > And [the Jesuits] probably thought the Japanese were agents of
> > Satan, preventing the salvation of countless souls, obviously
> > evil for rejecting such enlightened frocked gun-runners as
> > themselves.
>
> Even more amusing is Xavier's lament that the written Japanese of the day
> was so fiendishly difficult to master, it must have been devised by Satan to
> prevent the spread of the Gospels !

It was probably a shock to an educated European that he'd have to become a
schoolboy again.  For some reason I prefer the written Japanese of
Xavier's day to the contemporary, at least as far as literature goes.

Stan Ziobro