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D. T. Suzuki

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Also 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)

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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.

Person · Open Library

Works
13

Top works

  • An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
  • Spreading Indra's Net
  • Shin Buddhism
  • Hakuin's Song of Zazen
  • Zen and Japanese Culture (Bollingen XXIV)

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Japan
Active from
1870-10-18
Active to
1965-07-12
Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
5
Total plays
35

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/D.+T.+Suzuki">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organoboron Compounds

    · 1995 · cited 12,144x

  2. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    · 2012 · cited 6,795x

  3. Landscape of transcription in human cells

    · 2012 · cited 4,576x

  4. Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for <i>Fungi</i>

    · 2012 · cited 4,514x

  5. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    · 2016 · cited 4,417x

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Quotes

  • “Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.”
  • “We may sometimes ignore the claims of reason and rest satisfied, though usually unconsciously, with assertions which are conflicting when critically examined, but we cannot disregard by any means those of the religious sentiment which finds satisfaction only in the very fact of things. If it ever harbored some flagrant contradiction in the name of faith, it was because its ever-pressing demands had to be met with even at the expense of reason.”
  • “The Mahayana Buddhists offer a doctrine complementary to that of karma, in order to give a more satisfying and more human solution to our inmost religious needs. The doctrine of , therefore, must go side by side with that of karma; for through this harmonious co-working of the two, the true spirit of Buddhism will be more effectively realized. In this phase of development, Mahayana Buddhism must be said to be profoundly religious.”
  • “This subtle spiritual system, of which all sentient beings are its parts or units, is like a vast ocean in which the eternal moonlight of Dharmakaya is reflected. Even a faint wavelet which is noticed in one part of the water is sure to spread, sooner or later, according to the resistance of the molecules, over its entire surface, and thus finally disturb the serenity of the lunar image in it.”
  • “Karma cannot be denied, it is the law; but the human heart is tender and loving, it cannot remain calm and unconcerned at the sight of suffering, in whatever way this might have been brought about. It knows that all things ultimately come from the one source; when others suffer I suffer too; why then should not self-renunciation somehow moderate the austerity of karma? This is the position taken by Mahayana Buddhists in regard to the doctrine of karma.”
  • “The ranges of the Himalayas may stir in us the feeling of sublime awe; the waves of the Pacific may suggest something of infinity. But when one’s mind is poetically or mystically or religiously opened, one feels as Basho did that even in every blade of wild grass there is something really transcending all venal, base human feelings, which lifts one to a realm equal in its splendor to that of the Pure Land.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

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

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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.

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