populiser

— 2009, Michael T. Van Dyke, "Kenneth Rexroth’s Integrative Vision: Anarchism, Poetry and the Religious Experience in Post-World War II San Francisco”, in Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives, edited by Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009), page 45. The embrace of Zen was fed from three sources: the returning G. I.’s who had experienced Asian culture while serving in the Pacific theatre; the writings of such Zen populisers as Daisetz Suzuki and Alan Watts; and the growing Asian-American population, especially on the West coast, that had brought with them, or carried down, inherited religious sensibilities.