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After briefly explaining what Zen is, Dr. Suzuki considers in detail various aspects of Japanese art and life that this Buddhist discipline has influenced: the cult of swordsmanship, the tea ceremony, the haiku form of poetry, and the Japanese love of nature. Other essays are devoted to the relationship of Zen and Confucianism, to the role of Zen in the tradition of the Samurai, and to Japanese art. With bib-liography, index, and sixty-nine illustrations.
DAISETZ TEITARO SUZUKI, Japan's foremost authority on Zen Buddhism and author of over one hundred works on the subject, died in Tokyo in 1966 at the age of 95. He began his career as a teacher of English, and he was trained as a Buddhist disciple in the great Zen monastery at Kamakura. From 1897 to 1908 he worked in the United States as an editor and translator; later he became a lecturer at Tokyo Imperial University. In 1911 he married Beatrice Erskine Lane, and together they founded and edited The Eastern Buddhist, a journal published in English at Kyoto. He visited the West infrequently, but in 1950, at 80, he returned to the United States and spent most of the decade teaching, lecturing, and writing, particularly at Columbia, Harvard, the University of Mexico, and the Eranos conferences in Switzerland. Having returned to Japan, at 90 Suzuki made a four-week tour of India as a State guest, and at 94 he revisited New York, where he discussed Zen with Fr. Thomas Merton, and then he attended the East-West Philosophers' Conference in Honolulu. Others
'he befriended and influenced included C. G. Jung, Erich Fromm, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Arnold Toynbee, Gabriel Marcel, and Herbert Read, who wrote of Suzuki, "he combined the innocence of a child with the holiness of a saint."

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