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Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (鈴木 大拙 貞太郎, Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō, 18 October 1870 – 12 July 1966 [1]), self-rendered in 1894 as "Daisetz", [2] was a Japanese essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, and translator.
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism is a 1934 book about Zen Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. First published in Kyoto by the Eastern Buddhist Society, it was soon published in other nations and languages, with an added preface by Carl Jung. The book has come to be regarded as "one of the most influential books on Zen in the West". [1]
The Zen Studies Society was established in 1956 by Cornelius Crane to help assist the scholar Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki in his work and to help promulgate Zen Buddhism in Western countries. [1] It operates both New York Zendo Shobo-Ji in New York City and Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji in the Catskills area of New York State.
A reviewer for D. T. Suzuki's Eastern Buddhist Society commented: "Undoubtedly Madame Blavatsky had in some way been initiated into the deeper side of Mahayana teaching and then gave out what she deemed wise to the Western world..." [2] In the journal of the Buddhist Society, Suzuki commented: "here is the real Mahayana Buddhism". [3]
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Suzuki held that a key aspect of no-mind was “receptivity” (judōsei 受動性), a state of acceptance, openness, letting go, and non-resistance. [41] In Buddhist terms, Suzuki also held that in this state, the Buddha begins working through you. Thus, Suzuki writes “abandon both the body and the mind, and throw it all into the Buddha.
[3] [1] The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra was often quoted and paraphrased by Indian philosophers like Chandrakirti and Shantideva, and it also figured prominently in the development of East Asian Buddhism. [4] [5] [1] [6] It is notably an important sūtra in Zen Buddhism, as it discusses the key issue of "sudden enlightenment". [7]
The Lankavatara Sutra has a section where the Bodhisattva Mahamati asks Buddha 108 questions [8] and another section where Buddha lists 108 statements of negation in the form of "A statement concerning X is not a statement concerning X." [9] In a footnote, D.T. Suzuki explains that the Sanskrit word translated as "statement" is pada which can ...