An unexpectedly good biography of the other Suzuki, who founded the San Francisco Zen Center and as such played a large roll in bringing Zen Buddhism to the United States. Back in Japan as a young monk, Shunryu Suzuki grew disillusioned with the current practice of Buddhism in Japan, believing it had strayed into dogma and no longer taught Buddhism as it was meant to be taught and practiced. He sees a visit to the United States as a chance to teach Zen in its purer form. He is sent by his sect to do just that, and over a number of years succeeds in planting seeds that are still bearing fruit today. As an insider to the developing Zen movement that started in San Francisco in the sixties, David Chadwick gives us a personal portrait of Shunryu that is at once revealing and profound. 4.5 STARS