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Hardik Gupta

Sweeping Zen: Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

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Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (October 8, 1870—July 12, 1966) was a Japanese-born scholar of Zen and Japanese culture who essentially introduced the West to Zen and Mahayana Buddhism through his many published works. A lay practitioner of Rinzai Zen—Suzuki ‘s writings influenced such thinkers as Erich Fromm, Carl Jung, Thomas Merton, Karl Jaspers, Arnold Toynbee, Martin Heidegger, Gabriel Marcel, and many others. Suzuki’s contribution to Western understanding of Zen Buddhism is significant, considering that he was not a priest himself...

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