[Buddha-l] Conze's Memiors and Dictionary

[Richard Hayes]

On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 10:36 -0700, jkirk wrote:

> -so was Conze a commie?

In the 1930s Conze, like most sensible people, was a Communist. His
first published works were denunciations of the Fascist movement in
Spain. He writes that one day he was walking down the streets of London
and happened to see a Buddha statue in a window and a book by D.T.
Suzuki. This brought about an enormous shift in his thinking. He
dedicates at least one of his early writings on Buddhism to D.T. Suzuki,
whom he calls his kalyana-mitra.

-- 
Richard