[Buddha-l] Ts'ao-ch'i or Caoxi?

[Dan Lusthaus]

Since Blofeld, Yampolsky and Luk (Lu Kuan-yu) are no longer alive, we can't 
ask them to explain their choices. The only thing that would make one 
pronunciation "correct" as opposed to the other is if it is the way the 
locals say it. But even that needn't be definitive. Half the people in 
Missouri insist it should be pronounced mu-zoo-ra, the other half say 
mih-zoo-ree. User's choice.

Dan


>Oh, I noticed that John Blofeld in The Transmission of Mind uses Ts'ao-hsi 
>! (unlike Yampolsky or Charles Luk, who cite the name as Ts'ao-ch'i).
> Mitchell.