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...Died. Daisetz Suzuki, 95, one of Japan's leading philosophers and sages of Zen Buddhism; of a mesenteric thrombosis; in Tokyo. The mere act of trying to explain it is contrary to Zen, yet in lectures at Yale, Columbia and Harvard and in some 30 books in English (An Introduction to Zen Buddhism), Suzuki struggled tirelessly to instruct reason-worshiping Westerners in the Zen principle of suspending reason in order to gain a glimpse of eternity, profoundly influencing scores of intellectuals from Aldous Huxley to J. D. Salinger...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). The art of the plastic surgeon. Wisdom (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Zen Buddhism discussed by its leading exponent in the U.S., Columbia University's Philosopher Daisetz Suzuki...
...deeper into Buddhism, decided that what she wanted was enlightenment, and the way to enlightenment was meditation. "But to find out how to practice meditation in America was an impossibility." On a trip to China and Japan in 1930, she and her husband met Zen Master Dr. Daisetz Suzuki, and Ruth asked him how one went about learning to meditate. "If you can come back to Japan and study for some time." he said, "perhaps you can find...
...teacher, announced that enough new U.S. students were expected so that a new meditation hall would have to be built to accommodate them. And the current issue of Vogue tips off its readers that People Are Talking About "the Columbia University classes of the great Zen Buddhist teacher, Dr. Daisetz Suzuki, who sits in the center of a mound of books, waving his spectacles with ceremonial elegance while mingling the philosophical abstract with the familiar concrete...
...Unconscious Self. Last year Ray started work on a portrait of Columbia Lecturer Daisetz Suzuki, 79, a bushy-browed Zen Buddhist philosopher. Rather than paint the portraits on top of each other, Ray decided to make eight consecutive portraits. The result, on view this week in Manhattan's Willard Gallery, added up to a tour de force for the initiated. But the others were floundering after they left Stage One: a generally recognizable oil sketch of Suzuki...