Buddhist writer Chadwick (Crooked Cucumber) collects vignettes from the life of Shunryu Suzuki (1904-1971), an influential figure in 20th-century Zen Buddhism in this insightful appreciation. Most of ...

How an ambitious man built up--then nearly destroyed--the first Buddhist monastery in the U.S. How much bad can one say about a bunch of serene ascetics who sit around contemplating paradoxes like ...

In David Chadwick's biography of Suzuki, “Crooked Cucumber,” he mentions an incident that deftly captures his subject's character: In 1940, Suzuki was invited to join an organization promoting a ...

TO SHINE ONE CORNER OF THE WORLD: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki (Stories of a Zen Master Told by His Students), edited by David Chadwick. Broadway Books, 2001, 144 pp., $16.95 (cloth) Is it possible to ...

Wearing dirty, black clothing and heavy boots, Bill Kwong wandered into Sokoji, a Zen temple in San Francisco, and soon observed Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, its spiritual leader, slowly and carefully ...