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D. T. Suzuki

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Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (鈴木 大拙 貞太郎, Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō; 18 October 1870 – 12 July 1966), 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 (and in Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West. He was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Sanskrit literature. Suzuki spent several lengthy stretches teaching or lecturing at Western universities and devoted many years to a professorship at Ōtani University, a Japanese university of the Ōtani School of Jōdo Shinshū.

Suzuki was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1963.

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1. One of the most successfully cultivated branches of philosophy in our time is what is called inductive logic, the study of the conditions under which our sciences have evolved. Writers on this subject have begun to show a singular unanimity as to what the laws of nature and elements of fact mean, when formulated by mathematicians, physicists and chemists.

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2. Some years ago we had at our Harvard Graduate School a very brilliant student of Philosophy, who, after leaving us and supporting himself by literary labor for three years, received an appointment to teach English Literature at a sister-institution of learning. The governors of this institution, however, had no sooner communicated the appointment than they made the awful discovery that they had enrolled upon their…

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3. The artificial creation of Mikado-worship is one of the most interesting features of modern Japan, and a model to all other States as regards the method of preventing the growth of rationalism. There is a very instructive little pamphlet by Professor B.H. Chamberlain, who was Professor of Japanese and philosophy at Tokyo, and had a knowledge of Japanese which few Europeans had equalled. His pamphlet is called _The…

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Philosophers who discussed D. T. Suzuki

• Eugen Herrigel

Related ideas

• Paul Carus
• Afterlife
• Pure Land
• Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana
• Zazen
• Koan
• Cosmology
• Pure Land Buddhism
• Meister Eckhart
• Buddhist modernism
• Nobel Peace Prize
• Sanskrit
• Mahayana
• Samurai
• Shinran
• Jōdo Shinshū
• Zen
• Nazism
• Buddhism
• Mystical or religious experience
• Carl Jung
• Baháʼí Faith
• Nondualism
• University of London

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Part of Buddhist modernism.

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