Zen in the United States expositor of Zen Buddhism and its unofficial ambassador to Western readers until his death in 1966. His 1949 book, "An Introduction to Zen Buddhism", featured a thirty-page introduction by Carl Jung, an emblem of the deepening relationship between Buddhism and major Western thinkers. One American who attempted to establish an American Buddhist movement was Dwight Goddard (1861–1939). Goddard was a Christian missionary to China when he first came in contact with Buddhism. In 1928, he spent a year living in a Zen monastery in Japan. In 1934, he founded "The Followers of Buddha, an American Brotherhood," with the goal of
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism after the 1927 publication of his book "Zen Essays", which he decided would be "too heavy" as an introduction to Zen for beginners. Suzuki intended the resultant volume, 1934's "An Introduction to Zen Buddhism", to be used as a companion with the contemporaneously published "Manual of Zen Buddhism". "An Introduction to Zen Buddhism" was published in 1934 in Kyoto by the Eastern Buddhist Society. The Marshall Jones Company of Boston oversaw first publication in the United States. The 1939 German language edition was published with a preface by Carl Jung. In 1949, the book was reprinted in London and New