D. T. Suzuki

D.T. Suzuki (鈴木 大拙 貞太郎 Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō, 18 October 1870 – 12 July 1966) was a Japanese philosopher and writer.

D T. Suzuki
Born	(1870-10-18)18 October 1870 Honda-machi, Kanazawa, Japan
Died	12 July 1966(1966-07-12) (aged 95) Kamakura, Japan
Occupation	Author
Notable awards	National Medal of Culture

His books and essays were on Buddhism, Zen and Shin. They spread interest in Eastern philosophy to the West. Suzuki was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit literature. He taught at Western universities, and spent many years as a professor at Otani University.

D. T. Suzuki Media

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  D.T. Suzuki (1870-1966) da giovane.

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  Beatrice Erskine Lane (1878–1939)
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  Hu Shih and DT Suzuki during his visit to China in 1934

Bibliography

These essays were enormously influential when they came out, making Zen known in the West for the very first time:

• Essays in Zen Buddhism: first series (1927), New York: Grove Press.
• Essays in Zen Buddhism: second series (1933), New York: Samuel Weiser 1953–1971. Edited by Christmas Humphreys.
• Essays in Zen Buddhism: third series (1934), York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser 1953. Edited by Christmas Humphreys.
• Dr. Suzuki also completed the translation of the Lankavatara Sutra from the original Sanskrit. Boulder, CO: Prajña Press, 1978, ISBN 0-87773-702-9, first published Routledge Kegan Paul, 1932.

Shortly after, a second series followed:

• An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, Kyoto: Eastern Buddhist Soc. 1934. Republished with Foreword by C.G. Jung, London: Rider & Company, 1948.
• The Training of the Zen Buddhist monk, Kyoto: Eastern Buddhist Soc. 1934. New York: University Books, 1959.
• Manual of Zen Buddhism Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine, Kyoto: Eastern Buddhist Soc. 1934. London: Rider & Company, 1950, 1956. A collection of Buddhist sutras, classic texts from the masters, icons & images,including the "Ten Ox-herding pictures".

After WWII, a new interpretation:

• The Zen doctrine of no-mind,London: Rider & Company, 1949. York Beach, Maine: Red Wheel/Weiser 1972, ISBN 0-87728-182-3.
• Living by Zen. London: Rider & Company, 1949.
• Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist: the Eastern and Western way, Macmillan, 1957.
• Zen and Japanese culture, New York: Pantheon Books, 1959. A classic.
• Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis, Erich Fromm, D.T. Suzuki, and De Martino.

Miscellaneous:

• Zen Buddhism: selected writings of D.T. Suzuki, Doubleday, New York: 1956. Edited by William Barrett.
• Shin Buddhism; New York, Harper & Row, 1970.
• Collected writings on Shin Buddhism (ed. by The Eastern Buddhist Society); Kyōto, Shinshū Ōtaniha, 1973.
• Transcription of talks on Shin Buddhism.Buddha of infinite light. Boston: Shambhala, 1998. Edited by Taitetsu Unno.
• Tribute; anthology of essays by great thinkers. D.T. Suzuki: a Zen life remembered. Wheatherhill, 1986. Reprinted by Shambhala.