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A review by ben_smitty
Zen and Japanese Culture by D.T. Suzuki
4.0
This book took me soooo long to finish. A couple of dry sections here and there, but it helped me understand Zen Buddhism in a way that I never understood it before. Examples of Japanese and Chinese literature abound. Suzuki is clearly well-read in the Zen tradition, and the illustrations and explanations were helpful in understanding how Zen relates to Rikyu's tea ceremony, swordsmanship, Confucianism, nature, Haiku etc.
I did enjoy Suzuki's writing style a lot; With a topic as dense as Zen Buddhism, Suzuki never made me feel stupid at all. He knows he is writing to beginners who have no understanding of Zen, and so the book was not hard to follow.
I did enjoy Suzuki's writing style a lot; With a topic as dense as Zen Buddhism, Suzuki never made me feel stupid at all. He knows he is writing to beginners who have no understanding of Zen, and so the book was not hard to follow.