And this is a question about the most famous koan collection, which means that the so-called AI had many materials to be trained on, even in English! How many people would find this plausible and believe it?
That would be fun to do.
It would indeed link two very famous masters in one calligraphy. It must have been very tempting to believe. And if by chance it were true, that would be make it priceless!!
nothing less than
The Genkoshakusho 元亨釈書 (sorry, another Japanese source), tell us that Wuxue did in fact studied under Xutang.
He is a good candidate for Librarian Yuan...That would make the calligraphy even more valuable (assuming it is not one of the countless forgeries)
He may be nothing less that 無学祖元. At least that is what this japanese edition of the 虚堂録 is saying in the notes.
saku.hanazono.ac.jp/database/kid...
Incredible!! I wonder who is this XXX元. No one with this character among his heirs of Law according to the 禅学大辞典
En haut un homme se baigne seul dans une piscine artificielle vide dans la brume avec écrit : "English scholar "discovering" a new field" En bas, la même piscine artificielle avec une foule de baigneurs de tous âges et de toutes corpulences : "The existing bibliography in languages other than English" Source Henri Laurens (oui oui le vrai, l'unique)
#Humour
(pardon à mes amis anglais, américains, néo-zélandais, australiens, sud-africains...)
Japan's National Diet Library has finally made its East Asian Classics OCR available for use on ordinary computers! This is targeted at woodblock prints, but I tried it on a copy of the Heart Sutra from BnF's Pelliot collection and found it to be passably usable!
github.com/ndl-lab/ndlk...
