ABSTRACT
Many of the world’s great religions have placed great stress on oral transmission: The early Christians before any of the Second Testament was written down, the ancient Hebrews: “hear, o Israel…”, and the Japanese Buddhists, whose monk Join Saeki told the student who was leaving because he could not understand: Just listen for a thousand days. According to Horoyuki Itsuki, we understand through hearing and though personal contact, “the school of the ear” (Itsuki, 2001, p. 134).
