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Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (October 181870, Kanazawa, Japan – July 22, 1966; standard transliteration: Suzuki Daisetsu, 鈴木大拙) was a famous author of books and essays on Buddhism and Zen that were instrumental in spreading interest in Zen to the West.

Early life

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T. Suzuki was born as Teitarō Suzuki in Honda-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, the fourth son of physician Ryojun Suzuki. (He later changed his given name on becoming a Zen monk.) Although his birthplace no longer exists, a monument marks its location.

The Samurai class into which Suzuki was born into, declined with the fall of feudalism, which forced Suzuki’s mother to raise him in impoverished circumstances after his father died. When he became old enough to reflect on his fate in being born into this situation, he began to look for answers in various forms of religion.

His naturally sharp and philosophical intellect found difficulty in accepting some of the cosmolo