SUZUKI, Daisetsu Teitaro

(1870-1966)

   Japanese scholar who popularized BUDDHISM in the West through his writings on ZEN. His first book was a Japanese translation of SWEDENBORG'S Heaven and Hell (1910) while his later writings, including Mysticism, Christian and Buddhist (1957), display a firm grip of Western thought leading him to grapple with the problem of inter-religious communication. He travelled widely and in 1921 married an American. Professor of Buddhism at Kyoto University, he began the publication of the magazine Eastern Buddhist which he also edited.