Did Dogen Go to China?
What He Wrote and When He Wrote It
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:25th May '06
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- Paperback£73.00(9780195305920)
Dogen (1200-1253) was the founder of Soto Zen Buddhism in Japan, and as such one of the most notable figures in Japanese religious history. In this book, Steven Heine attempts to clarify how and when Dogen's various works were composed and compiled in relation to the unfolding of Dogen's career. In addition to presenting Heine's own innovative interpretation of Dogen's life and work, this book performs a valuable service by bringing cutting edge Japanese scholarship on Dogen to the attention of of Western scholars of Buddhism.
...an indispensable vademecum to the work of the Soto Zen Master. Suffice to say that he brings us face to face with the flesh-and-blood Dogen and his multifarious creative activities, and thus provides an anchorage and a perspective for which puzzled readers of the Shobogenzo will be profoundly grateful. * Joseph S. O'Leary, Monumenta Nipponica *
ISBN: 9780195305708
Dimensions: 160mm x 236mm x 28mm
Weight: 578g
316 pages