A primer of Sōtō Zen: A translation of Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki;

Religion & Spirituality

Dōgen

Buddhism

Routledge and K. Paul

Primer of Soto Zen: Shobogenzo Zuimonki

Law Book Co of Australasia

Presents a complete, annotated translation of Dogen's writing on Zen monasticism and the spirit of community practice. Dogen (1200-1253) is Japan's greatest Zen master. This is a complete translation of Eihei Shingi, the major writing by the Japanese Zen master Eihei Dogen (1200-1253) on monastic practice and the role of community life in Buddhism. Dogen was the founder of the Soto branch of Japanese Zen, but his teaching was not limited by any particular school of Buddhism. His writings are generally regarded today as a great summit of Japanese Buddhist philosophy, meditation practice, psychology, and poetic insight into the nature of reality. Eihei Shingi contains Dogen's principal guidelines and instructions for everyday life and rituals in the monastic training center he established. Included are a collection of dramatic teaching stories, or koans, on the attitude and responsibilities for practitioners in the community, the only collection of traditional koans with this practical focus. In addition to the translation, the book includes detailed annotation, a substantial introduction, glossaries of Japanese technical terms and persons mentioned, and lineage charts, all providing relevant background in historical and religious context.

Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community: A Translation of the Eihei Shingi (Suny Series in Buddhist Studies)

State Univ of New York Pr

Zen was popularized in the West largely through the writings of Dr. D.T. Suzuki, who followed the school of Rinzai Zen. Although it remains relatively unknown in the West, Soto Zen eventually attracted the greatest number of followers in Japan. With its gentle, more intellectual approach, Soto Zen relies on deep meditation (zazen) rather than the "sudden," direct method (using koan) of Rinzai Zen, in striving for enlightenment. The Shobogenzo Zuimonki consists largely of brief talks, horatatory remarks, and instructional and cautionary comments by the Soto Zen Master Dogen (1200-1253). Translated, shobogenzo means "the eye of the true law." Roughly translated, zuimonki means "easy for the ears to understand," or "simplified."

A Primer of Soto Zen: A Translation of Dogen's Shobogenzo Zuimonki (East West Center Book)

Reiho Masunaga

University of Hawaii Press

Treasury Of The True Dharma Eye

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press

This Zen classic is a collection of talks by the great Japanese Zen Master Dogen, the founder of the Soto School. They were recorded by Ejo, one of Dogen's first disciples, and later his foremost successor. The talks and stories in this volume were written in the thirteenth-century Japan, a time when Buddhism was undergoing a "dark age" of misinterpretation and corruption. It was in this atmosphere that Dogen attempted to reassert the true essence of the Buddhist teachings and to affirm "the mind of the Way" and the doctrine of selflessness. Dogen emphasizes the disciplinary aspect of Zen: meditation practice is presented here as the backbone without which Buddhism could not exist. The stories in this volume are often humorous and paradoxical, relating the Buddhist teachings by means of example. Commonly in the Zen tradition, discussions between teacher and student and the telling of tales are used to point to a greater truth, which mere theory could never explain. Dogen relates interesting stories of his travels in China, where the inspiration he found lacking in Japanese Buddhism was flourishing in the Ch'an school of Chinese Buddhism.

Record of Things Heard: From the Treasury of the Eye of the True Teaching

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Shambhala

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Omori Sogen

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen

Element Books

Instructions au cuisinier zen / Propos de cuisiniers

Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts

Фоліо

Instructions au cuisinier zen

Genre Fiction

Gallimard]

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