Abruptly Dogen, ,

Author

Smith

Year

2022

Publisher

Punctum Books

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-68571-044-6

Link

Last Update

12-Oct-2025

Keywords

Philosophy ; Religion

Description

Dogen (1200–1253), luminous thunder wabbling the Buddhist projects of liberation. He brings Zen to Japan. He’s also the first to write of religion in his native Japanese. Too bright, he will disappear another seven hundred years, only reemerging in 1920s Japan. And now, a century later, in the main currents of world culture.

This book holds some of his sharp edges and cataract waterfalls, a land that may have 84,000 moons. So that we may glimpse the view from his Eye of Real Dharma (Shōbōgenzō 正法眼藏). Each of the chapters contains material from one of its seventy-five fascicles.

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