D.T. Suzuki
Zen Buddhist scholar
Lived and worked at the Hegeler-Carus Mansion in LaSalle from 1897 to 1908. Eleven years. Later became the most influential teacher of Zen Buddhism in the Western world. The fact that he did this in a sandstone-and-zinc river town in Illinois is one of the great unknown stories of American religious history.
Hegeler Carus Mansion. Suzuki — the man who would carry Zen Buddhism to the Western world — to live and work in LaSalle for eleven years.
Civic · Religion · LaSalle · 1850–1900
Hegeler Carus Mansion
Where Zen Buddhism arrived in America
1307 Seventh Street, LaSalle, IL