D. T. Suzuki, Japanese author and scholar (died 1966)

D. T. Suzuki

Japanese Zen scholar (1870–1966)

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki , self-rendered in 1894 as Daisetz, was a Japanese essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, and translator. He was an authority on Buddhism, especially Zen and Shin, and was instrumental in spreading interest in these to the West. He was also a prolific…