Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki Shunryu (Japanese铃木 俊 隆, * 1905, † 1971) was Japanese, the son of a Soto Zen master and himself a master of the Soto line: His teacher Gyokujun was a pupil of his father. S. Suzuki made ​​Zen popular in the United States.

His education began at a very early S. Suzuki, and already at the age of 30 years he was allowed to take disciples. During the Second World War he was the leader of a pacifist movement in Japan.

In 1958 he went to the USA to two years to serve the local Soto Japanese community in San Francisco. However, because soon a large number of American followers gathered around him, including Steve Jobs, who later founded the company Apple, he prolonged his stay in the U.S. until his death.

S. Suzuki founded the Zen Center of San Francisco, later the Zen Mountain Center at Tassajara Springs, the first Zen monastery outside of Asia.

In Germany S. Suzuki was first through his book Zen Mind - beginner's mind, an introduction to Zen practice known.

Occasional confusion with the much older Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki he used to reply: "No, I am the smaller Suzuki ".