Shunryu Suzuki
Shunryu Suzuki (
May 18,
1904 -
December 4,
1971) was a
Japanese Zen master of the (
Soto school), direct spiritual descendant of Zen master
Dogen. He moved to
San Francisco,
USA in
1959, and founded the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the first Zen training monastery outside Asia, City Center (in San Francisco) and Green Gulch Farm. A collection of his
teisho's (Zen talks) were bundled in
the books
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind and
Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen. His lectures on the Sandokai are collected in
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness. Suzuki's biography is captured in David Chadwick's Crooked Cucumber.
References
- Shunryu Suzuki; Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai; University of California Press; ISBN 0-520-21982-1 (1st edition, hardcover, 1999)
- David Chadwick; Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki; Broadway Books, New York; ISBN 0-7679-0104-5 (1st edition, hardcover, 1999)
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