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It is an error to believe that the koan is an invention of the Japanese mind; however, that mind may have recast it. Kung-an was already part, although a later part, of the Ch'an doctrine in China before it was taken up by the island neighbours.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 4 : China, Japan, Tibet > # 163