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A Zen Life (2008)

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A Zen Life (2008)

A Zen Life (2008)
DVD-Rip | AVI | XviD MPEG4 @ 1.2 Mbit/s | 512x384 | MP3 Stereo @ 128 Kbit/s 48 KHz | 77 min | 699 MB
Language: English | Subtitle: None | Label: Marty Gross Film Productions, Inc. | Original Release Date: February 4, 2008
Genre: Documentary, Historical, Mystery, Drama, Spirituality & Philosophy

Avant-garde musician John Cage, Catholic mystic Thomas Merton, Beat writers Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, Psychotherapists Carl Jung and Erich Fromm, Zen teachers Robert Aitken and Philip Kapleau, Philosophers Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger, 20th century giants, all have one thing in common — they were deeply influenced by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, a gentle scholar-practitioner from Japan. This litany of names is merely suggestive of the massive impact that D. T. Suzuki had on western culture — an influence that is documented in a new film, A Zen Life — because so far we haven’t mentioned the 100 or so books that have found their way (by now) into the hands of millions of people throughout the world, works that include classics such as A Manual of Zen Buddhism, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism, and The Essence of Buddhism. Simply put, the Buddhist world would be very different today had D. T. Suzuki not come to the west. Suzuki was in fact a “kalyana mitra” (spiritual friend / teacher) to an entire generation.
A Zen Life (2008)

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966) was one of the 20th century’s most important writers and thinkers. During his long and extraordinarily fruitful life Suzuki became the first voice of Japanese Buddhism, especially Zen, to the Western World. He traveled and lectured around the world and has had a major impact on religious, artistic and philosophical thinking that continues to this day.

D.T. Suzuki’s landmark books, “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism” (1934) and “Zen and Japanese Culture” (1959) changed the world of arts and letters profoundly. More than 30 of his books remain in print.

A ZEN LIFE is the first documentary film to present the extraordinary life of D.T. Suzuki. This vivid portrait of the man and his times includes rare footage of Suzuki himself and reminiscences by many whose lives and thinking he influenced.

Interviewed in A ZEN LIFE are poet Gary Snyder, religious philosopher Huston Smith, author Donald Richie, psychiatrist Albert Stunkard. and Suzuki’s long-time assistant Mihoko Okamura and many others.

Numerous important figures of the 20th Century acknowledged Suzuki’s impact on their work and thought including Carl Jung, Erich Fromm, Martin Heidegger, Merce Cunningham, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, John Cage, and Alan Watts.
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