What is D. T. Suzuki?
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2013}} {{Infobox writer | name = D T. Suzuki | image = Daisetsu Teitarō Suzuki photographed by Shigeru Tamura.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1870|10|18}} | birth_place = Honda-machi, [[Kanazawa, Ishikawa|Kanazawa]], Japan | death_date = {{death date and age|1966|7|12|1870|10|18|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Kamakura, Kanagawa|Kamakura]], Japan | occupation = Author | notableworks = | awards = [[Japanese honors system|National Medal of Culture]] | website =}} '''D.T. Suzuki''' (鈴木 大拙 貞太郎 Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarō, 18 October 1870 – 12 July 1966) was a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[philosopher]] and [[writer]]. His books and essays were on [[Buddhism]], [[Zen]] and [[Jodo Shinshu|Shin]].<ref>[http://www.kanazawa-museum.jp/daisetz/english/about.html D. T. SUZUKI MUSEUM] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140805153622/http://www.kanazawa-museum.jp/daisetz/english/about.html |date=2014-08-05 }}, accessed 2012.2.17; Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, D.Litt, ''Manual of Zen Buddhism'', Buddha Dharma Education Association [http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/manual_zen.pdf set in PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024215714/https://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/manual_zen.pdf |date=2021-10-24 }}, 2005, accessed 2012.2.17; [http://www.azenlife-film.org/top.htm A ZEN LIFE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810231559/http://azenlife-film.org/top.htm |date=2014-08-10 }}: The D.T.Suzuki documentary project, accessed 2012.2.17</ref><ref>Stirling 2006, pg. 125</ref> They spread interest in Eastern philosophy to the West. Suzuki was also a prolific [[translator]] of Chinese, Japanese, and [[Sanskrit]] literature. He taught at Western universities, and spent many years as a professor at [[Otani University]]. == Bibliography == These essays were enormously influential when they came out, making Zen known in the West for the very first time: * ''Essays in Zen Buddhism: first series'' (1927), New York: Grove Press. * ''Essays