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Karlfried Graf Dürckheim

About The Author

Karlfried Graf Dürckheim (1896–1988) spent eight years in Japan before World War II and was a professor at the University of Kiel until Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. In Japan he discovered Zen Buddhism in its various expressions and subsequently became a Western authority on the subject.

Books by Karlfried Graf Dürckheim