''An Introduction to Zen Buddhism'' is a 1934 book about

Zen Buddhism Zen ( zh, t=禪, p=Chán; ja, text= 禅, translit=zen; ko, text=선, translit=Seon; vi, text=Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty, known as the Chan School (''Chánzong'' 禪宗), an ...

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki , self-rendered in 1894 as "Daisetz", was a Japanese-American Buddhist monk, essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, translator, and writer. He was a scholar and author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen and Shin that were instrumental in s ...

. First published in

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by the Eastern Buddhist Society, it was soon published in other nations and languages, with an added preface by

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. The book has come to be regarded as "one of the most influential books on Zen in the West".

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The book grew out of Suzuki's 1914 publications for the Japanese journal ''New East''. Although the editor, Robertson Scott, suggested that Suzuki publish them in book form, he did not decide to do so until after the 1927 publication of his book ''Zen Essays'', which he decided would be "too heavy" as an introduction to Zen for beginners. Suzuki intended the resultant volume, 1934's ''An Introduction to Zen Buddhism'', to be used as a companion with the contemporaneously published ''Manual of Zen Buddhism''.

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''An Introduction to Zen Buddhism'' was published in 1934 in Kyoto by the Eastern Buddhist Society. The Marshall Jones Company of

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oversaw first publication in the United States. The 1939 German language edition was published with a preface by

. In 1949, the book was reprinted in London and New York with Jung's preface, translated by Constance Rolfe, included.

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