About the Author

Daisetz T. Suzuki, Japan's foremost authority on Zen Buddhism and author of over a hundred books on the subject, died in Tokyo in 1966 at the age of 95. He befriended and influenced such thinkers as C. G. Jung, Erich Fromm, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Arnold Toynbee, Gabriel Marcel, Herbert Read, and Thomas Merton.

Reviews

"As one turns the pages of this delightful book, one seems to catch intimations of how and why certain aspects of the "spirit of Zen' are making themselves felt in America today."
*The New York Times*