MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro, 1870-1966
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1959-1965
Volume: 16 item(s); 23 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Merton began corresponding with D. T. Suzuki to ask some questions about Zen and to send him some quotes from the 4th Century Desert Fathers. These quotes would eventually go into Merton's book The Wisdom of the Desert. He asks Suzuki for his reactions and a possible introduction to the work, seeing a bond between Zen writings and the wisdom of the Christian monks of the desert. Suzuki's text would later be published in Merton's book, Zen and the Birds of Appetite.
Biography
Daisetz T. Suzuki was one of the most influential scholars in bringing Zen Buddhism to the West. He was born in Kanazawa, Japan. He taught at universities in Europe, Japan and the United States. Merton rarely traveled during his years at Gethsemani Abbey, but received permission in 1964 to visit Suzuki at Columbia University in New York. (Source: The Hidden Ground of Love, pp. 560-561.)
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See also published letters from Merton to Suzuki in The Hidden Ground of Love, pp. 560-571.
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