Shinji Shōbōgenzō
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The Shinji Shōbōgenzō (真字正法眼蔵) or True Dharma Eye 300 Cases (Shōbōgenzō Sambyakusoku), or Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Mana Shōbōgenzō), compiled by Eihei Dōgen in 1223–1227, was first published in Japanese in 1766. The literary sources of the Shinji Shōbōgenzō are believed to have been the Keitoku Dentōroku and the Shūmon Tōyōshū.[https://books.google.com/books?id=wXQVoYlC-7kC&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&dq= Steven Heine : Did Dōgen Go to China? Oxford University Press, 2006. p. 144] It is written in Chinese, the language of the original texts from which the kōans were taken.
Background
Regardless of a few instances where Dōgen criticized the study of kōans, legend states that the young monk stayed up all night copying the Blue Cliff Record before his journey China (although this story is likely apocryphal, given the great length of the text).H. Tanabe, Philosophy as Metanoetics (1986) p. 126 Dōgen's first teacher, Eisai, taught the importance of kōan introspection. While establishing the Kōshōhōrin-ji, Dōgen gathered the three hundred kōans featured in the Shinji Shōbōgenzō.{{cite book|last1=Loori |first1=John Daido |authorlink1=John Daido Loori|last2=Tanahashi |first2=Kazuaki |authorlink2=Kazuaki Tanahashi|title=The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans|date=December 13, 2005|publisher=Shambhala Publications|isbn=9781590302422}}
English translations
- {{cite book|last1=Nishijima |first1=Gudo Wafu |authorlink1=Gudo Wafu Nishijima|title=Master Dogen's Shinji Shobogenzo|date=February 1, 2003|publisher=Windbell Publications|isbn=9780952300267}}
- {{cite book|last1=Loori |first1=John Daido |authorlink1=John Daido Loori|last2=Tanahashi |first2=Kazuaki |authorlink2=Kazuaki Tanahashi|title=The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans|date=December 13, 2005|publisher=Shambhala Publications|isbn=9781590302422}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{cite web|url=http://www.buddhistethics.org/14/miller-review.html|title=Review of Zen Master Dōgen's Three Hundred Kōans|last=Miller|first=Gregory|publisher=Journal of Buddhist Ethics|volume=14|year=2007|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615223916/http://buddhistethics.org/14/miller-review.html|archivedate=June 15, 2010}}
- [http://dogensangha.org.uk/PDF/ShinjiIntro.pdf Introduction to the Shinji Shobogenzo] translated by Gudo Wafu Nishijima - Edited by Michael Luetchford & Jeremy Pearson
- [https://archive.today/20130415110251/http://www.mro.org/mr/archive/21-1/articles/dogens300.html Dogen's 300 Koans] by Daido Loori, delivered at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090819162451/http://hcbss.stanford.edu/research/projects/sztp/news/archive/dogen_zen/papers/lori.html Symposium on Dogen Zen] at Stanford University
- [http://www.lionsroar.com/is-there-a-zen-person-around-here/ comments on koans from Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye] by John Daido Loori, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly
- [http://00.gs/annual_cycle_of_days.htm The 300 koan-s of the Mana Shōbōgenzō]
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