Dōgen and the Kōan tradition
Subtitle: a tale of two Shōbōgenzō texts
By: Steven Heine.
Series: Suny series in philosophy and psychotherapy
Publisher: State Univ. of New York Press; State University of New York Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Dōgen, 1200-1253; Dōgen, 1200-1253; Dōgen, 1200-1253,; Koan
Description: "This book has three major goals in critically examining the historical and philosophical relation between the writings of Dogen and the Zen koan tradition. First, it introduces and evaluates recent Japanese scholarship concerning Dogen's two Shobogenzo texts, the Japanese (Kana) collection of ninety-two fascicles on Buddhist topics and the Chinese (Mana) collection of three hundred koan cases also known as the Shobogenzo Sanbyakusoku. Second, it develops a new methodology for clarifying the development of the koan tradition and the relation between intellectual history and multifarious interpretations of koan cases based on postmodern literary criticism. Third, the book's emphasis on a literary critical methodology challenges the conventional reading of koans stressing the role of psychological impasse culminating in silence."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-321) and index.
Includes a translation of three KS fasciles from Japanese.