There’s a new DVD out about D.T. Suzuki. Michael Goldberg Executive Producer / Director of The DT Suzuki Documentary Project was kind enough to send me an announcement about the DVD. Here is the information they sent along:
We are pleased to announce that DVDs are now available of “A ZEN LIFE – D.T. Suzuki,” a 77-minute documentary about Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966), credited with introducing Zen Buddhism to the West. In the latter part of his life he also embraced Jodo Shin Buddhism.
D.T. Suzuki was highly successful at getting Westerners to appreciate the Japanese mentality, and Japanese to understand Western logic. The effect he had on Western psychoanalysis, philosophy, religious thinking, and the arts was profound. His numerous writings in English and Japanese serve as an inspiration even today. Daisetz Suzuki’s message is all the more important now, in light of contemporary conflicts stemming from divergent ways of thinking.
Gary Snyder calls D.T. Suzuki “probably the most culturally significant Japanese person in international terms, in all of history.”
Along with Gary Snyder, there are exclusive interviews of many people, respected in their own right, who knew D.T. Suzuki in person, including Huston Smith, Mihoko Okamura, Dr. Albert Stunkard, Elsie Mitchell, Robert Aitken, Donald Richie, Wm. Theodore de Bary, and rare footage of Thomas Merton, John Cage, Erich Fromm, and Suzuki himself.
The DVD contains an additional 10-minutes from a hitherto unknown interview of Daisetz Suzuki by Huston Smith. There is also a printed “Supplementary Text” inserted in the case, with quotes from Dr. Suzuki’s talks in English never before published.
“A ZEN LIFE – D.T. Suzuki” can be ordered at:
www.martygrossfilms.com.
Individual price (for personal use): US$40.00.
Institutional price (for internal use only): US$150.
Plus shipping & handling.
Delivery in February 2008.