ticularly impressed by his great ability to structure concepts. ophy, religion, ethics, astronomy, and science, etc., and each sec-tion was further divided into a number of chapters and subsec-tions. It was a very large work published over two years. The first thing he did was to organize the mountain of materials that he had collected over many years, then arrange them according to section, chapter, and subsection, and make notes about sage of each section, and have us students copy it down. By inserting each material in the appropriate place it was perfectly ordered and systematic. Not only this, but he also kept the num-ber of pages in the lecture record within a certain limit, making sure there were neither too many nor too few. I was very im-pressed by the fact he was able to write in such a consistent If we are to summarize Tanaka’s experience in modern terms, we might say he felt that Enryō excelled in his abilities of input (collect-ing and memorizing vast quantities of information) and output (sys-tematically summarizing and communicating) in addition to his im-aginative creativity. The Buddhist scholar TAMURA Kōyū says, “Enryō was endowed with an outstanding memory.” He took a vast quantity of materials and recorded them in a Japanese-style bound notepad before giving When I assisted him on Lectures on Mystery Studies I was par-The lectures were divided into various sections such as philos-which individual material belonged to which part. Then he would orally present the content, starting with the opening pas-manner, not only because of his many years of experience in writing but also because of his great ability to integrate concepts. 102
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