MTSK_036 _ MARTIN TEE SUVI KIRBLAS: Unpublished works of Robert van Gulik: The Collected works of Ch’an Master Tung-kao _ 30.01.2025 / MeMoMu 26.10.2026 Statue of Donggao with hand written notes by Van Gulik. Or. 28.385 https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/unpublished-works-of-robert-van-gulik-the-collected-works-of-chan-master-tung-kao On 17 September 1941, during his first posting as Second Secretary at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Tokyo, Dutch sinologist Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) wrote an article that would meet its readers more than eighty years later. The paper explores the life and times of Donggao 東皋 (1639-1695, aka Xinyue 心越, Shin’etsu in Japanese), a Chinese monk who left for Japan as the Manchu conqueror overthrew the Ming dynasty. The paper was meant to be published in Tien Hsia Monthly, an English-language sinological magazine published in Shanghai (1935–1937) and Hong Kong (1937–19...
