Dt suzuki biography

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (October 18, 1870 – July 22, 1966; standard transliteration: Suzuki Daisetsu, 鈴木大拙) was a JapaneseBuddhist scholar and philosopher, who pioneered bridging the Far Eastern world and the West by introducing Zen Buddhism and other Far Eastern religious thought to the West.

He published more than one hundred books, including translations. He articulated Zen concepts and teachings that explicitly denied linguistic articulation and conceptual comprehension. Suzuki explicated them for Western audiences who had little or no familiarity with Far Eastern thought.

Suzuki presented Zen and other Far Eastern religious thought, not as a mysterious esoteric teaching which only provokes curiosity, but as a profound religious thought, based upon his own interpretive scrutiny, that was attractive to Western intellectuals.

His analyses of Far Eastern tradition also helped Asians to recapture the values of their religious heritage, which were in decline due to rapid moderni