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v. t. e. Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師; 26 January 1200 – 22 September 1253), [1][2] was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. He is also known as Dōgen Kigen (道元希玄), Eihei Dōgen (永平道元), Kōso Jōyō Daishi (高祖承陽大師), and Busshō Dentō Kokushi ...
The Japanese Buddhist word uji (有時), usually translated into English as Being-Time, is a key metaphysical idea of the Sōtō Zen founder Dōgen (1200–1253). His 1240 essay titled Uji, which is included as a fascicle in the Shōbōgenzō ("Treasury of the True Dharma Eye") collection, gives several explanations of uji, beginning with, "The so-called "sometimes" (uji) means: time (ji ...
Bendōwa is Dogen's earliest known writing in Japanese. [1] Although the text was written in 1231, making it the second piece he wrote following his return from China to Japan, [1][3] it was not widely known for hundreds of years until the Kanbun Era (1661–1673), when it was found in a temple in Kyoto. In 1684, it was added in manuscript form ...
Genjōkōan. Genjōkōan (現成公按[1]), translated by Tanahashi as Actualizing the Fundamental Point, [2][3] is an influential essay written by Dōgen, the founder of Zen Buddhism 's Sōtō school in Japan. It is considered one of the most popular essays in Shōbōgenzō. [4]
t. e. The "Five Ranks" (Chinese: 五位; pinyin: Wuwei; Japanese: goi) is a poem consisting of five stanzas describing the stages of realization in the practice of Zen Buddhism. It expresses the interplay of absolute and relative truth and the fundamental non-dualism of Buddhist teaching.
Shōbōgenzō (正法眼蔵, lit. "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye") is the title most commonly used to refer to the collection of works written in Japan by the 13th century Buddhist monk and founder of the Sōtō Zen school, Eihei Dōgen. Several other works exist with the same title (see above), and it is sometimes called the Kana ...
Shikantaza (只管打坐) is Dogen 's Japanese translation of the Chinese phrase zhǐguǎn dǎzuò (只管打坐 / 祇管打坐), [1][web 1] "focus on meditative practice alone", although many modern Western practitioners have interpreted this very differently. [2][3] The phrase was used by Dogen's teacher Rujing, a monk of the Caodong school ...
Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki. Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki ( Japanese: 正法眼蔵隨聞記 ), sometimes known by its English translation The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Record of Things Heard, is a collection of informal Dharma talks given by the 13th century Sōtō Zen monk Eihei Dōgen and recorded by his primary disciple Koun Ejō from 1236 to 1239.