1st Edition

Essence Of Dogen

By Takahashi Copyright 1983
100 Pages
by Routledge

100 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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;

Biography

Masanobu Takahashi, Yuzuru Nobuoka