On Dec 24, 2003, at 4:46 AM, Christopher John Fynn wrote:
BTW are the classical written languages of China & Japan more or less the same
thing??
I understand that the Chinese Buddhist canon is also used by the Japanese
without translation
so I assume that there was (/is?) more or less a common written language - at
least for that kind of material.
More-or-less, in that they were both using classical Chinese.
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