D.T. Suzuki

"Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism." – Carl Jung Essays in Zen Buddhism was the first book to fully introduce Zen in the West. In this work, Dr D.T. Suzuki outlines the origins of Zen as a unique Chinese interpretation of the Doctrine of Enlightenment with the aim of attaining...

If the Western world knows anything about Zen Buddhism, it is down to the efforts of one remarkable man, D.T. Suzuki. The twenty-seven-year-old Japanese scholar first visited the West in 1897, and over the course of the next seventy years became the world's leading authority on Zen. His radical and penetrating insights earned him many disciples, from Carl Jung to...