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...JANWILLEM VAN DE WETERING...
...Janwillem van de Wetering sailed for Japan by freighter in the summer of 1958. He was 27, and a misfit in the bustling Dutch society. He had read a few books on Buddhism, and, he writes, he wanted to find a door he could knock on: "a real door, made of wood, with a live man behind it who would say some thing I could hear." Japan, he knew, had living masters who would accept disciples. So did India and Ceylon, but he had heard stories of young Westerners who wandered aimlessly about in these places, eventually dying of dysentery...