SUZUKI, Daisetsu Teitaro (1870-1966):
Japanese scholar who popularized BUDDHISM in the
West through his writings on ZEN. His first book was a Japanese translation of
SWEDENBORG'S Heaven and Hell (1910) while his later writings, including Mysticism,
Christian and Buddhist (1957), display a firm grip of Western thought leading him to
grapple with the problem of inter-religious communication. He travelled widely and in 1921
married an American. Professor of Buddhism at Kyoto University, he began the publication
of the magazine Eastern Buddhist which he also edited.
