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Biography of Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Name: Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Birth Date: October 18, 1870
Death Date: July 12, 1966
Place of Birth: Kanazawa, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Male
Occupations: teacher, translator
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966) was a Japanese translator, teacher, and constructive interpreter of Zen Buddhist thought to the West.Teitaro Suzuki was born in Kanazawa in western Japan on October 18, 1870. His ancestors as well as his father, grandfather, and great grandfather were physicians of the samurai class. Suzuki was expected to follow in their footsteps, but with the death of his father while he was six his family was unable to bear the expense of a medical education. At about 17, he said, he began to contemplate the misfortunes of his family as manifested in the early deaths of his father, grandfather, and great grandfather. He turned to the Rinzai temple where his family was registered. Upon graduation from secondary school he became an English teacher in Takojima, a fishing village on the Noto peninsula, and later at Mikawa, a town near Kanazawa. From 1888 to 1889 he studied at Ishikawa College. Relocating in …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…whose mystics emphasize "the personal and frequently sexual feelings." Using the term "unconscious" to describe the potential enlightenment within all beings, called the "Buddha-nature," Suzuki opened the door for the use of Zen by modern depth psychology. On the basis of Suzuki's interpretation Carl Jung presented the experience of Zen as the liberation of the unconscious. Further Reading For a historical treatment of Zen which includes discussion of Suzuki's place see Heinrich Dumoulin, A History of Zen Buddhism (1963). Suzuki's many writings are available in numerous popular paperback editions, any of them a good place to begin: for example, Essays in Zen Buddhism (1961), Introduction to Zen Buddhism (1964), Manual of Zen Buddhism (1960), and Zen and Japanese Culture (1959), a revised version of his Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture (1938).Switzer, A. Irwin, D.T. Suzuki: a biography, London: The Buddhist Society, 1985.A Zen life: D.T. Suzuki remembered, New York: Weatherhill, 1986.
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