Tao Te Ching
Ruth Fuller Sasaki
1892 – 1967 CE
First foreigner to become a priest in a Japanese Rinzai Zen temple, only woman yet to be a Daitoku-ji temple priest, and pioneering welcomer of Buddhism into the USA; Sasaki was an early student of yoga and Eastern philosophy during the 1920’s. She translated herself and—supervising a team including Gary Snyder—initiated many of the first translations of important Zen texts into English. Student of D. T. Suzuki, mother-in-law to Alan Watts, married to Zen master Sokei-an; she created places for people to practice, provided texts, and helped open the door for most of the early American Zen practitioners.
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American (USA) Translators Women of Wisdom Zen
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Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)Great Depression (1929 – 1941 CE)
Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)
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Qing dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE)Generations
The Lost Generation (1883 – 1900 CE)Quotes by Ruth Fuller Sasaki (2 quotes)
“That is what you are, that is what I am, that is what everything in the universe is – beginningless, endless life, infinite, boundless, eternal Life.”
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“what you are… that is what we must realize. And to this realization Zen practice leads us step by step. This is the aim of Zen.”
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