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D. T. Suzuki

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Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (鈴木 大拙 貞太郎 Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō; he rendered his name "Daisetz" in 1894; 18 October 1870 – 12 July 1966) was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen (Chan) and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West. [1]

88 relations: Age of Enlightenment, Alan Watts, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, Analytical psychology, Ōtani University, Bahá'í Faith, Blue Cliff Record, Brian Victoria, Buddhism, Buddhism and Theosophy, Buddhist Churches of America, Buddhist modernism, California Institute of Integral Studies, Cambridge Buddhist Association, Carl Jung, Chan Buddhism, Charles A. Moore, Christmas Humphreys, Columbia University, Cosmology, D. T. Suzuki, Detraditionalization, Engaku-ji, Erich Fromm, Exceptionalism, Hegeler Carus Mansion, Hu Shih, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japanese honors system, Japanese nationalism, Japanese Zen, Jōdo Shinshū, Judith Tyberg, Kamakura, Kanazawa, Kōan, Kegon, Keiji Nishitani, Kyogyoshinsho, Kyoto, Kyoto School, Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, LaSalle, Illinois, Mahayana, Meiji period, Meister Eckhart, Myōshin-ji, Myokonin, Nihonjinron, Nobel Peace Prize, ..., Pali, Pantheon Books, Parliament of the World's Religions, Paul Carus, Paul Reps, PBS, Radcliffe College, Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari, Romanticism, Samurai, Sanskrit, Sanzen, Satori, Shambhala Publications, Shin'ichi Hisamatsu, Shinran, Shunkō-in, Soyen Shaku, Taitetsu Unno, Tao Te Ching, Taoism, The Gateless Barrier, The Gospel of Buddha, The Japan Times, Theosophical Society Adyar, Theosophy (Blavatskian), Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States, Transcendentalism, University of London, University of Tokyo, Vedic and Sanskrit literature, WGBH-TV, William Barrett (philosopher), William James, Zazen, Zen, Zen master, Zen Studies Society. Expand index (38 more) »

Age of Enlightenment

The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason; in lit in Aufklärung, "Enlightenment", in L’Illuminismo, “Enlightenment” and in Spanish: La Ilustración, "Enlightenment") was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy".

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Alan Watts

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.

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An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism is a 1934 book about Zen Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki.

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Analytical psychology

Analytical psychology (sometimes analytic psychology), also called Jungian psychology, is a school of psychotherapy which originated in the ideas of Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist.

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Ōtani University

is a private Buddhist university in Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan.

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Bahá'í Faith

The Bahá'í Faith (بهائی) is a religion teaching the essential worth of all religions, and the unity and equality of all people.

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Blue Cliff Record

The Blue Cliff Record is a collection of Chán (Zen) Buddhist koans originally compiled in China during the Song dynasty in 1125 (in the time of Emperor Huizong), and then expanded into its present form by the Chán master Yuanwu Keqin (1063–1135).K. Sekida, Two Zen Classics (1977) p. 18-20 The book includes Yuanwu's annotations and commentary on 100 Verses on Old Cases (頌古百則), a compilation of 100 koans collected by Xuedou Chongxian (980–1052; 雪竇重顯). Xuedou selected 82 of these from the Transmission of the Lamp, with the remainder selected from the Yunmen Guanglu (雲門廣録, Extensive Record of Yunmen Wenyan, 864–949).

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Brian Victoria

Brian Daizen Victoria (born 1939) is an educator and the author of numerous studies on Buddhism.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Buddhism and Theosophy

Theosophical teachings have borrowed some concepts and terms from Buddhism.

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Buddhist Churches of America

The is the United States branch of the Nishi Honganji subsect of Jōdo Shinshū ("True Pure Land School") Buddhism.

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Buddhist modernism

Buddhist modernism (also referred to as Modern Buddhism, modernist Buddhism and Neo-Buddhism) are new movements based on modern era reinterpretations of Buddhism.

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California Institute of Integral Studies

California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) is a private, non-profit university founded in 1968 and based in San Francisco, California.

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Cambridge Buddhist Association

The Cambridge Buddhist Association was informally founded in 1957 when D.T. Suzuki moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and befriended John and Elsie Mitchell, who ran a vast library of books on Buddhism and held zazen for various practitioners.

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Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.

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Chan Buddhism

Chan (of), from Sanskrit dhyāna (meaning "meditation" or "meditative state"), is a Chinese school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.

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Charles A. Moore

Charles Alexander Moore (March 11, 1901 – April 1967) was an American philosopher, historian, sinologist, and writer.

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Christmas Humphreys

Travers Christmas Humphreys, QC (15 February 1901 – 13 April 1983) was an English barrister who prosecuted several controversial cases in the 1940s and 1950s, and later became a judge at the Old Bailey.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Cosmology

Cosmology (from the Greek κόσμος, kosmos "world" and -λογία, -logia "study of") is the study of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe.

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D. T. Suzuki

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (鈴木 大拙 貞太郎 Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō; he rendered his name "Daisetz" in 1894; 18 October 1870 – 12 July 1966) was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen (Chan) and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West.

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Detraditionalization

In social theory, detraditionalization refers to the erosion of tradition in religion (Secularization, agnosticism, Religious disaffiliation) and society in (post)modernism.

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Engaku-ji

, or Engaku-ji (円覚寺), is one of the most important Zen Buddhist temple complexes in Japan and is ranked second among Kamakura's Five Mountains.

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Erich Fromm

Erich Seligmann Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-born American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist.

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Exceptionalism

Exceptionalism is the perception that a species, country, society, institution, movement, individual, or time period is "exceptional" (i.e., unusual or extraordinary) in some way.

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Hegeler Carus Mansion

The Hegeler Carus Mansion, located at 1307 Seventh Street in La Salle, Illinois is one of the Midwest's great Second Empire structures.

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Hu Shih

Hu Shih (17 December 1891 – 24 February 1962) was a Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat.

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Ishikawa Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshu island.

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Japanese honors system

Contains translated material from the corresponding Japanese Wikipedia article.

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Japanese nationalism

is the nationalism that asserts that the Japanese are a nation and promotes the cultural unity of the Japanese.

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Japanese Zen

Zen is the Japanese variant of Chan Buddhism, a Mahayana school that strongly emphasizes dhyana concentration-meditation.

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Jōdo Shinshū

, also known as Shin Buddhism or True Pure Land Buddhism, is a school of Pure Land Buddhism.

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Judith Tyberg

Judith Tyberg (1902–1980) was an American yogi ("Jyotipriya") and a renowned Sanskrit scholar and orientalist.

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Kamakura

is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kanazawa

is a city located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Kōan

A (공안 gong-an; công án) is a story, dialogue, question, or statement, which is used in Zen practice to provoke the "great doubt" and test a student's progress in Zen practice.

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Kegon

Kegon is the Japanese transmission of the Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism.

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Keiji Nishitani

was a Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School and a disciple of Kitarō Nishida.

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Kyogyoshinsho

, often abbreviated to, is the magnum opus of Shinran Shonin, the founder of the Japanese Buddhist sect, Jodo Shinshu.

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Kyoto

, officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Kyoto School

The is the name given to the Japanese philosophical movement centered at Kyoto University that assimilated western philosophy and religious ideas and used them to reformulate religious and moral insights unique to the East Asian cultural tradition.

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Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra

The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra (Sanskrit) is a prominent Mahayana Buddhist sūtra.

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LaSalle, Illinois

LaSalle is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States, located at the intersection of Interstates 39 and 80.

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Mahayana

Mahāyāna (Sanskrit for "Great Vehicle") is one of two (or three, if Vajrayana is counted separately) main existing branches of Buddhism and a term for classification of Buddhist philosophies and practice.

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Meiji period

The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Meister Eckhart

Eckhart von Hochheim (–), commonly known as Meister Eckhart or Eckehart, was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia (now central Germany) in the Holy Roman Empire.

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Myōshin-ji

is a temple complex in Kyoto, Japan, and head temple of the associated branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism.

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Myokonin

The are famous, pious followers of the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Japanese Buddhism.

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Nihonjinron

, is a genre of texts that focus on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

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Pali

Pali, or Magadhan, is a Middle Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian subcontinent.

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Pantheon Books

Pantheon Books is an American book publishing imprint with editorial independence.

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Parliament of the World's Religions

There have been several meetings referred to as a Parliament of the World's Religions, the first being the World's Parliament of Religions of 1893, which was an attempt to create a global dialogue of faiths.

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Paul Carus

Paul Carus (18 July 1852 – 11 February 1919) was a German-American author, editor, a student of comparative religion, from Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1973–74).

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Paul Reps

Paul Reps (15 September 1895 - 12 July 1990) was an American artist, poet, and author.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as a female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College.

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Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari

Red Wheel Weiser Conari, also known in different periods in its history as RedWheel/Weiser, LLC and Samuel Weiser, Inc., is a book publisher with three imprints: Red Wheel, Weiser Books and Conari Books.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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Samurai

were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Sanzen

, aka, means going to a Zen master for instruction.

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Satori

(오 o; ngộ) is a Japanese Buddhist term for awakening, "comprehension; understanding".

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Shambhala Publications

Shambhala Publications is an independent publishing company based in Boulder, Colorado.

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Shin'ichi Hisamatsu

was a philosopher, Zen Buddhist scholar, and Japanese tea ceremony (sadō or chadō, 茶道, "the way of tea") master.

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Shinran

Popular Buddhism In Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion & Culture by Esben Andreasen, pp.

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Shunkō-in

Shunkō-in (春光院, Temple of the Ray of Spring Light) is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan and belongs to the Myōshin-ji (Temple of Excellent Mind) school, which is the largest among 14 Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhist schools.

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Soyen Shaku

Soyen Shaku (釈 宗演, January 10, 1860 – October 29, 1919; written in modern Japanese Sōen Shaku or Kōgaku Sōen Shaku) was the first Zen Buddhist master to teach in the United States.

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Taitetsu Unno

Taitetsu Unno (海野 大徹 Unno Taitetsu) was a scholar, lecturer, and author on the subject of Pure Land Buddhism.

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Tao Te Ching

The Tao Te Ching, also known by its pinyin romanization Daodejing or Dao De Jing, is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Laozi.

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Taoism

Taoism, also known as Daoism, is a religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin which emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao (also romanized as ''Dao'').

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The Gateless Barrier

The Gateless Barrier (Mandarin: 無門關 Wúménguān; Japanese: 無門関 Mumonkan), sometimes inaccurately translated as The Gateless Gate, is a collection of 48 Chan (Zen) koans compiled in the early 13th century by the Chinese Zen master Wumen Huikai (無門慧開; Japanese: Mumon Ekai; 1183–1260).

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The Gospel of Buddha

The Gospel of Buddha was an 1894 book by Paul Carus.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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Theosophical Society Adyar

The Theosophy Society – Adyar is the name of a section of the Theosophical Society founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and others in 1882.

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Theosophy (Blavatskian)

Theosophy is an esoteric religious movement established in the United States during the late nineteenth century.

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Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

Below is a timeline of important events regarding Zen Buddhism in the United States.

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Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern United States.

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University of London

The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.

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University of Tokyo

, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.

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Vedic and Sanskrit literature

Vedic and Sanskrit literature comprises the spoken or sung literature of the Vedas from the early-to-mid 2nd to mid 1st millennium BCE, and continues with the oral tradition of the Sanskrit epics of Iron Age India; the golden age of Classical Sanskrit literature dates to Late Antiquity (roughly the 3rd to 8th centuries CE).

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WGBH-TV

WGBH-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 19), is a PBS member television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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William Barrett (philosopher)

William Christopher Barrett (1913–1992) was a professor of philosophy at New York University from 1950 to 1979.

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William James

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.

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Zazen

Zazen (literally "seated meditation"; 座禅;, pronounced) is a meditative discipline that is typically the primary practice of the Zen Buddhist tradition.

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Zen

Zen (p; translit) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as Chan Buddhism.

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Zen master

Zen master is a somewhat vague English term that arose in the first half of the 20th century, sometimes used to refer to an individual who teaches Zen Buddhist meditation and practices, usually implying longtime study and subsequent authorization to teach and transmit the tradition themselves.

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Zen Studies Society

The Zen Studies Society was established in 1956 by Cornelius Crane to help assist the scholar Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki in his work and to help promulgate Zen Buddhism in Western countries.

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References

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