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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.
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