Dōgen and Sōtō Zen
By: edited by Steven Heine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: mul; eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780199324859; 9780199324866
Subjects: Sōtōshū; Zen Buddhism
Description: This volume is a follow-up to the collection published in 2012 by Oxford University Press, 'Dōgen: Textual and Historical Studies'. It features some of the same outstanding authors as well as new expert contributors exploring diverse aspects of the life and teachings of Zen master Dōgen (1200-1253), the founder of the Sōtō Zen sect (or Sōtōshū) in early Kamakura-era Japan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dōgen's use of Rujing's 'just sit' (shikan taza) and other kōans  -- T. Griffith Foulk; title: 'Raihaitokuzui' and Dōgen's views of gender and women : a reconsideration  -- Miriam L. Levering; title: Dōgen, a medieval Japanese monk well-versed in Chinese poetry : what he did and did not compose  -- Steven Heine; title: Negotiating the divide of death in Japanese Buddhism : Dōgen's difference  -- John C. Maraldo; title: 'When all dharmas are the Buddha-dharma' : Dōgen as comparative philosopher  -- Gereon Kopf; title: Keizan's Denkōroku : a textual and contextual overview  -- William M. Bodiford; title: Are Sōtō Zen precepts for ethical guidance or ceremonial transformation? Menzan's attempted reforms and contemporary practices  -- David E. Riggs; title: Vocalizing the remembrance of Dōgen : a study of the Shinpen hōon kōshiki  -- Michaela Mross; title: Interpreting the material heritage of the 'elephant trunk robe' in Sōtō Zen  -- Diane Riggs; title: Embodying Sōtō Zen : institutional identity and ideal body image at Daihonzan Eiheiji -- Pamela D. Winfield.