by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki · Grove Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780802130556
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«An Introduction to Zen Buddhism» is Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki's introduction to Zen Buddhism, published by Grove Press in paperback (132 pages, in English).
D. T. Suzuki presents Zen Buddhism to a Western audience and explains, in a direct and accessible tone, how the tradition seeks self-understanding and enlightenment through philosophy, psychology, and ethics. It offers a complete overview of Zen and includes a foreword by Carl Jung.
1994 reissue of the work originally published in 1934. D. T. Suzuki wrote more than a hundred works on Zen in Japanese and English.
For readers new to Zen Buddhism and for students of philosophy or religion seeking a general and accessible overview.
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki , 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 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.
