Enlightenment unfolds
Subtitle: the essential teachings of Zen Master Dōgen
By: edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi.
Contributors: Tanahashi, Kazuaki, 1933-
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Sōtōshū -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800
Description: Eihei Dogen (1200-1253) is unquestionably one of the most significant religious figures in Japanese history. The founder of the Soto school of Zen, he was a prolific writer whose works have instructed and inspired for more than seven hundred years, and who used everything from poetry to the mundane details of everyday life in a monastery to illuminate Zen teaching.

Enlightenment Unfolds contains works written by Dogen throughout his life, presented in chronological order, beginning with the journal from his study in China, providing a substantial selection from his masterwork, Treasury of the True Dharma Eye, and concluding with his spare but eloquent death poem. A number of the selections appear here in English for the first time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-282).
Table of contents: title: Emergence of the true dharma eye, 1223-1235; title: Raising sages, 1235-1246; title: Great awakened ones, 1243-1246; title: Eternal peace, 1246-1253.