# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/d-t-suzuki
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:03:28.567Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/d-t-suzuki"
name: "D. T. Suzuki"
slug: "d-t-suzuki"
description: "Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki , was a Japanese essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, and translator. He was an authority on Buddhism, especially Zen and Shin, and was instrumental in spreading interest in these to the West. He was also a prolific translator of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Sanskrit literature. Suzuki spent several lengthy stretches teaching or lecturing at Western universities and devoted many years to a professorship at Ōtani University, a Japanese university of the Ōtani School of Jōdo Shinshū."
tagline: "Japanese Buddhist scholar, Doctor of Letters (1870–1966)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
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birthDate: "1870-10-18"
deathDate: "1966-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump