Manual of Zen Buddhism

<p>Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (<em>Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō</em> October 18 1870 - July 12 1966) was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism Zen and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West. Suzuki was also a prolific translator of Chinese Japanese and Sanskrit literature. Suzuki spent several lengthy stretches teaching or lecturing at Western universities and devoted many years to a professorship at Otani University a Japanese Buddhist school.</p>