Dogen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Koroku

by Dōgen, Taigen Dan Leighton, Shohaku Okumura

Book Overview

Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto School of Zen, is renowned as one of the world's most remarkable religious thinkers. As Shakespeare does with English, Dogen utterly transforms the language of Zen, using it in novel and extraordinarily beautiful ways to point to everything important in the religious life. He is known for two major works. The first work, the massive Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861716701
• ISBN13: 9780861716708
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Length: 824 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"