Interview of Suzuki by Peter Schneider
File Name: 69-09-16-IB
from audio, more noise, Changed "McNeil" to "McNeill" 12-2016, DC.
P: When did Caucasians begin sitting at Sokoji?
SR: Maybe one month after my arrival.
P: When did you arrive?
SR: May 23, 1959.
P: You came by yourself?
SR: Yes, by airplane. But at that time I was not appointed to this temple. I came here as assistant to Tobase. Soon after I accepted, they changed the situation.
P: Was he living in Japan then or in San Francisco?
SR: He, Tobase, was at that time in Japan. So I was invited to this temple, because he started editor (?) of ... Read Transcript (this version is updated and corrected at times. Any other transcripts below are not).
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