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Kaiten Nukariya
A Japanese Zen monk and scholar, he helped introduce Zen Buddhism to English-language readers in the early 20th century. His best-known work, The Religion of the Samurai, connects Buddhist thought with discipline, ethics, and everyday life.
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About the author
Born in 1867 and died in 1934, Kaiten Nukariya was a Japanese religious scholar and ordained monk in the Soto Zen tradition. He studied at Soto Sect College and later at Keio University, and he became known as a teacher and writer who explained Zen thought in a clear, accessible way.
Nukariya is best remembered for The Religion of the Samurai (1913), a book that explores the history, philosophy, and practice of Zen in China and Japan. Writing for an international audience, he presented Zen not as something distant or mysterious, but as a living discipline shaped by study, meditation, and moral self-control.
His work played an early role in bringing Zen Buddhism to readers outside Japan. For audiobook listeners today, his writing offers both a historical introduction to Zen and a glimpse of how one early modern Buddhist scholar tried to interpret it for the wider world.