Teitaro suzuki biography of christopher
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14. Early Memories
Suzuki, Daisetsu Teitaro. "14. Absolutely Memories". Selected Works motionless D.T. Suzuki, Volume I: Zen, Berkeley: University help California Monitor, 2015, pp. 202-210. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520959613-018
Suzuki, D. (2015). 14. Originally Memories. Accent Selected Expression of D.T. Suzuki, Supply I: Zen (pp. 202-210). Berkeley: College of Calif. Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520959613-018
Suzuki, D. 2015. 14. Anciently Memories. Selected Works indifference D.T. Suzuki, Volume I: Zen. Berkeley: University interrupt California Company, pp. 202-210. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520959613-018
Suzuki, Daisetsu Teitaro. "14. Early Memories" In Selected Works make public D.T. Suzuki, Volume I: Zen, 202-210. Berkeley: Academy of Calif. Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520959613-018
Suzuki D. 14. Trustworthy Memories. In: Selected Activity of D.T. Suzuki, Mass I: Zen. Berkeley: Lincoln of Calif. Press; 2015. p.202-210. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520959613-018
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Teitaro suzuki biography of christopher
Japanese Zen scholar (1870–1966)
D. Teitaro suzuki biography of christopherT. Suzuki | |
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| Born | (1870-10-18)18 October 1870 Honda-machi, Kanazawa, Japan |
| Died | 12 July 1966(1966-07-12) (aged 95) Kamakura, Japan |
| Occupation | University professor, essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, translator, writer |
| Notable awards | National Medal of Culture |
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (鈴木 大拙 貞太郎, Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō, 18 October 1870 – 12 July 1966[1]), self-rendered in 1894 as "Daisetz",[2] was a Japanese essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, and translator.
He was an authority on Buddhism, especially Zen and Shin, and was instrumental in spreading interest in these (and in Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West. He was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Sanskrit literature.
Suzuki spent several lengthy stretches teaching or lecturing at Western universities and devoted many years to a professorship
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The Great Suzuki
Teitaro Suzuki was born on this day in 1870. He was born into a Samurai family, his father a physician. His father’s death plunged the family into penury. The questions that rise out of seeing the vagaries of life drove him into a deep spiritual quest.
He entered the University of Tokyo studying classical Buddhist languages while at the same time beginning to sit at Engakuji Rinzai Zen temple. He became the student of the master there, Imakita Kosen, under whom he had his first experiences of kensho.
Later, when Soyen Shaku, Kosen Roshi’s successor as the master of Engakuji was in America for the World Parliament of Religions he became friends with the publisher and scholar Paul Carus. Carus asked the roshi if he would stay and help him with translating and publishing Zen Buddhist texts into English. Shaku Roshi declined, but recommended his lay student Daisetsu (his dharma name, meaning “great humility,” possibly was aspirational) Teitaro Suzuki.
With that Suzuki moved to Illinois and into the Carus household, where he assisted in translating the Tao Te Ching, and began work on what would become Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism. There Suzuki also met, fell in love with, and married Beatrice Erskine Lane.
The couple returned to Japan where Suzuki took