Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki

Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki ( 1878–1939) was an American Theosophist, who was instrumental in promoting Theosophy in Japan. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Lane was educated at Radcliffe College, where one of her tutors was William James, graduating in 1898. She also completed a Master of Arts degree in social work at Columbia University in 1908.

Lane Suzuki is often eclipsed by her famous husband, the Japanese Buddhist scholar and educator D. T. Suzuki, whom she married in 1911. Her remains are interred next to those of her husband in the graveyard of Tōkei-ji temple in Kamakura.

After her death in 1939, her husband compiled and published Impressions of Mahāyāna Buddhism, a collection of thirty-one of her major essays.

Publications 1931: Kōya San: the home of Kobō Daishi and his Shingon doctrine. 1932: Noḡaku: Japanese nō plays. 1933: Buddhism and practical life. 1934: Buddhist readings. 1938: Mahayana Buddhism. London: The Buddhist Lodge. 1940: Impressions of Mahayana Buddhism. The Eastern Buddhist Society, Otani Buddhist College; London: Luzac and Company, London. 1959: Mahayana Buddhism: a brief outline.