Shinji Shobogenzo
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The Shinji Shōbōgenzō or True Dharma Eye 300 Cases (Shōbōgenzō Sambyakusoku), or Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Mana Shōbōgenzō), compiled by Eihei Dōgen
in 1223-1227, was first published in Japanese in 1766. The literary sources of the Shinji Shōbōgenzō are believed to have been the Keitoku Dentōroku and the Shūmon Tōyōshū. It is considered significant that "this koan collection -- in Dogen's hand -- demonstrated that the Soto tradition had 'lost' the meaning (wisdom) of Dogen's work".
Dogen
Dōgen Zenji was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Kyōto, and the founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan after travelling to China and training under the Chinese Caodong lineage there...
in 1223-1227, was first published in Japanese in 1766. The literary sources of the Shinji Shōbōgenzō are believed to have been the Keitoku Dentōroku and the Shūmon Tōyōshū. It is considered significant that "this koan collection -- in Dogen's hand -- demonstrated that the Soto tradition had 'lost' the meaning (wisdom) of Dogen's work".
External links
- Master Dogen's Shinji Shobogenzo as translated by Gudo Nishijima
- Zen Master Dōgen's Three Hundred Kōans as translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi
- review of Zen Master Dōgen's Three Hundred Kōans by Gregory Miller, in JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST ETHICS, vol. 14 (2007)
- Introduction to the Shinji Shobogenzo
- Dogen's 300 Koans by Daido Loori, delivered at the Symposium on Dogen Zen at Stanford University
- comments on koans from Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye by Daido Loori, in BUDDHADHARMA
- On the Mana Shōbōgenzō "Appendix II" (pp. 257 sq.) of Steven Heine : Dōgen and the Kōan Tradition. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1994.
- The 300 koan-s of the Mana Shōbōgenzō