[Read download] Zen Pioneer: The Life and Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki
·•●- Isabel Stirling ·•●-
| #1222613 in Books | 2006-09-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.14 x1.25 x5.30l,.91 | File Name: 1593761104 | 320 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A fine biography of an important figure in Zen studies|By Charlie Canning|On Ruth Fuller's first trip to Japan in 1930, she was introduced to D. T. Suzuki through a mutual friend from Chicago. Suzuki taught the society matron about Zen, giving her a copy of his groundbreaking Essays in Zen Buddhism as a primer. Two years later, Fuller was receiving instruction in zazen meditat|From Booklist|*Starred * Librarian and professor Stirling first learned of the high--society Chicago matron turned Zen Buddhist priest when she visited the extensive library Ruth Fuller Sasaki (1892-1967) estab
Ruth Fuller Sasaki, who died in 1967, was a pivotal figure in the emergence and development of Zen Buddhism in the United States. She is the only Westerner — and woman — to be made a priest of a Daitoku-ji temple and was mentor to Burton Watson, Philip Yampolsky, and Gary Snyder, and mother-in-law of Alan Watts. This is the first biography of her remarkable life.
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