釈宗演
Carus himself had written a book offering an insight into, and overview of, Buddhism, titled "The Gospel of Buddha". Soyen Shaku wrote the introduction, and Suzuki translated the book into Japanese. At this time, around the turn of the century, quite a number of Westerners and Asians (Carus, Soyen, and Suzuki included) were involved in the worldwide Buddhist revival that had begun slowly in the 1880s.