The way The "goal" Background Chinese texts Classical Post-classical Contemporary Zen in Japan Seon in Korea Thiền in Vietnam Western Zen Ruth Fuller Sasaki (October 31, 1892 – October 24, 1967), born Ruth Fuller, was an American writer and Buddhist teacher.
As Ruth Fuller Everett (during her first marriage), she met and studied with Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki in Japan in 1930.
[6] She was careful to record, however, that she did not perform the usual duties of a priest, "because I was a foreigner, a woman, untrained in temple procedures, and because I needed the years left me to carry on the work of spreading Zen to the west.
She took piano lessons in Switzerland for several months in 1913, and also studied French and German with private tutors in Europe for a year and a half.
This resort was led by Pierre Bernard, and offered adult education in yoga and Eastern philosophy and religions.
[12] On a 1930 family sojourn to East Asia, Ruth met D. T. Suzuki, who gave her basic instruction for meditation, and told her that the best way to learn about Zen would be to return to Japan for an extended stay.
Suzuki introduced her to Nanshinken Roshi (Kono Mukai) of the Rinzai Zen monastery in Kyoto at Nanzen-ji, and she became his student.
[19] The director of the team was Iriya Yoshitaka (1910–1999), who was considered the world's foremost authority on colloquial Chinese of the Tang and Song dynasties.
[18] Yampolsky wrote in 1991 that Yanagida "is recognized as the foremost scholar of Zen Buddhism in both China and Japan.
)[23] They were also joined by Walter Nowick, a pianist and member of the First Zen Institute, to work on the Record of Rinzai.
[24] This group was dealt a blow in August 1961,[25] when she dismissed Yampolsky (whom she accused of stealing the team's translation of the Rinzai-roku to publish it as his own), and Watson and Snyder resigned in protest.
[34] Sasaki continued to do her utmost to complete as many of her long-standing projects as possible, amidst deteriorating health in her last years.