D. T. Suzuki
Sign in to saveAlso known as Daisetsu Teitarō Suzuki, Suzuki Daisetsu, Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki, Daisetsu Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Daisetz Suzuki
Japanese Buddhist scholar, Doctor of Letters (1870–1966)
OverviewAI-generated
D. T. Suzuki was a Japanese male author. He is associated with works including *An Introduction to Zen Buddhism*, *Spreading Indra's Net*, *Shin Buddhism*, *Hakuin's Song of Zazen*, and *Zen and Japanese Culture (Bollingen XXIV)*. Open Library lists 13 works under his name, while Crossref records 5. His name in kana is "すずき だいせつ".
Suzuki was born in 1870 and died in 1965. A quote attributed to him on Wikiquote states, "Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground." He is referenced by 2,566 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1870-10-18 ) 18 October 1870, Honda-machi, Kanazawa , Japan
- Died
- 12 July 1966 (1966-07-12) (aged 95), Kamakura , Japan
- Occupation
- University professor, essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, translator, writer
- Notable awards
- National Medal of Culture
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Suzuki
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of death
- St. Luke's International Hospital
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Tokyo
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Religion
- Rinzai school
- Notable work
- Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Letters
- Student of
- Soyen Shaku
- Field of work
- Japanese Zen
- Image
- Daisetsu Teitarō Suzuki photographed by Shigeru Tamura.jpg
Show 15 more facts
- date of birth
- 1870-10-11
- date of death
- 1966-06-12
- significant person
- Kitarō Nishida
- member of
- Japan Academy
- name in native language
- 鈴木 大拙
- birth name
- 鈴木 貞太郎
- cause of death
- bowel obstruction
- Commons category
- Daisetsu Teitarō Suzuki
- nominated for
- Nobel Peace Prize
- name in kana
- すずき だいせつ
- significant place
- D. T. Suzuki Museum
- has works in the collection
- D. T. Suzuki Museum
- writing language
- English language
- place of burial
- Tōkei-ji Temple
- manner of death
- natural causes
via Wikidata · CC0
~29 min read
Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “D. T. Suzuki” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.