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The Ring of the Way (L'Anneau de la Voie)
L'Anneau de la Voie
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A late-period volume co-authored with Évelyne Ekō de Smedt, in which Deshimaru comments verse-by-verse on classical Sōtō texts (the Hannya Shingyō, the Sandōkai, fragments of the Shōbōgenzō) interleaved with first-person reflection on practice and lineage. Published in French in 1982, the year of his death, and translated into English in 1983, it is the most explicit statement of his understanding of the transmission line he was inserting Europe into.
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By Taisen Deshimaru
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L'Anneau de la Voie, written with his disciple Évelyne Ekō de Smedt, is Deshimaru's late commentary on the classical Sōtō texts and on the lineage into which he intended his European sangha to be received.