On Indian Mahayana Buddhism Author:D. T. Suzuki Dr. Suszki's vast and notable literary output over sixty years is devoted to two main themes, which though fairly distinct, are nevertheless closely interrelated. While the bulk of his work deals with the Zen of China and China, a large section of it concerns itself with the Indian Mahayana. But whereas his exposition of Zen has had a remarkable... more » effect on Europeans and Americans, his writings on the Indian Mahayana have so far had little influence.
D. T. Suzuki is still unsurpassed in his grasp of the spirit of the doctrine and his Studies in the Lankavatara Sutra is still among the most illuminating work on the Sutra because he does not treat Buddhist philosophical statements as exercises in philosophical ingenuity or disputatiousness, but as expressions of Buddhist life and meditational experience.« less