Buddhist ideas had been infiltrating American thought since the days of the Transcendentalism of Emerson and Thoreau.
佛法的思想从爱默生和梭罗的超验主义时期就一直在渗透美国的思想。
At the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893, Soen Shaku turned heads when he made the first public presentation of Zen to the West.
在1893年芝加哥世界宗教议会上，释宗演首次向西方作了一次禅的公开演讲。
His disciple and translator, D.T.Suzuki, became a great bridge from the East, teaching at Harvard and Columbia, and publishing dozens of widely read books on Buddhism in English.
他的弟子和身边翻译，铃木大拙，当时一直在哈佛和哥伦比亚教学，用英语出版了数十种广泛的佛教阅读书籍，成为了在西方传播东方思想的一座伟大的桥梁。
When confused with D.T.Suzuki, Shunryu Suzuki would say, "No, he's the big Suzuki,I'm the little Suzuki
当大家经常把自己和铃木大拙搞混淆时，铃木俊隆会说：“不，他是大铃木，我是小小铃木”。（似有谦虚之意）
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