Miss Lane was the daughter of Mrs. Emma Erskine Hahn, from the East Coast of the United States. Miss Lane met the famous Zen Buddhist scholar Daisetz T. Suzuki when he went to the United States in the early 1900s for study and lecturing.

In 1911 she came to Japan and they were married in Yokohama. Through the years Dr. Suzuki produced over one hundred translations and works in both English and Japanese on Buddhism. He did much to introduce Zen Buddhism to the West. His wife Beatrice was also credited with being somewhat of an authority on certain aspects of Buddhism having authored and published articles and books on the subject including Mahayana Buddhism with foreword by Christmas Humphreys (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1959, reprint) . She died in 1939.

Dr. Daisetz Suzuki and his wife Beatrice, with their adopted
son Victor. This photograph was taken about 1925.

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