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Life and teaching of Eihei Dogen

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Eihei Dogen : Biography

The most important Zen Master, and considered Japan's "greatest religious figure," was Eihei Dogen (1200-1253). He was the founder of the Soto school, whose emphasis is on gradual enlightenment through the practice of pure meditation called shikan-taza, an alert, thought-free state of awareness, sometimes called "the mind of someone facing death."

  
  
  


Eihei Dogen : Bibliography

- Masao Abe, A Study of Dogen, 1992.
- Carl Bielefeldt, Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation, 1988.
- Thomas Cleary, trans., Shobogenzo.: Zen Essays by Dogen. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.
- Francis Cook, trans., How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo
- Francis Cook, trans., Sounds of Valley Streams: Enlightenment in Dogen's Zen, Albany: SUNY Press, 1989.
- Hee-jin Kim. Dogen Kigen: Mystical Realist. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1975, 1987.
- Takashi James Kodera, Dogen's Formative Years in China. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.
- William R. LaFleur, ed., Dogen Studies. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985.
- Joan Stambaugh, Impermanence is Buddha-nature: Dogen's Understanding of Temporality, 1990.
- Kazuaki Tanahashi, ed., Moon in a dewdrop: writings of Zen Master Dogen. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985.
- Yuho Yokoi, Zen Master Dogen: An Introduction with Selected Writings, 1976.

Eihei Dogen : Portraits

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Eihei Dogen : Links

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