The essence of Dōgen

Author(s)

• 高橋, 賢陳 タカハシ, マサノブ
• 道元 ドウゲン

Bibliographic Information

The essence of Dōgen

Masanobu Takahashi ; translated by Yuzuru Nobuoka

Kegan Paul International, 1983

Note

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

First published in 1983. Dogen was one of the great Zen masters of the Middle Ages in Japan, and in this book Masanobu Takahashi, a leading authority on Dogen, explains his thought in the clearest terms. Professor Takahashi has drawn on many years of study and on deep understanding of the whole structure of Dogen's thought to give a lucid account of Dogen's complete philosophy. This first systematic introduction to Dogen's thought to be published in English, translated by Yuzuru Bobuoka.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 D?gen's life and his essential precepts
• Chapter 2 Genj?-k?an (the actuality of instruction)
• Chapter 3 Practice
• Chapter 4 On Buddha
• Chapter 5 G?jin (thoroughness) and Buddha
• Chapter 6 Racial ground
• Chapter 7 Supplement

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Details

• NCID: BA08005635
• ISBN:
  • 0710300468
• LCCN: 82021324
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: jpn
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: x, 90 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BQ9449.D657
  • DC19 : 294.3/927/0924
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Dōgen, 1200-1253