I am interested in Dogen and his Shobogenzo. I have read small portions in translation. There are "Amazon reviews" and the reviews that practitioners would make. I am soliciting recommendations on a) translations of the Shobogenzo and b) books on Dogen's life and dharma works.
Thank you for your attention.
Shobogenzo Recommendations
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Re: Shobogenzo Recommendations
Perhaps read a smaller body of text, containing some of Dogen writings from the Shobogenzo. This is something I have also considered endeavoring for some time. I would recommend ‘Moon in a Dewdrop’.
Hope this helps.
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Hope this helps.
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Re: Shobogenzo Recommendations
Nishijima & Cross, Vol. 1-4:
https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings ... o_1_NC.pdf
https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings ... o_2_NC.pdf
https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings ... o-3_NC.pdf
https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings ... o_4_NC.pdf
Hubert Nearman, Full text:
https://www.shastaabbey.org/pdf/shoboAll.pdf
8 Tranlations of Genjokoan
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/ ... oKoan8.htm
Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist, Introduction to Dogen's Life and Teaching by Hee-Jin Kim
https://www.amazon.com/Eihei-Dogen-Myst ... al+realist
https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings ... o_1_NC.pdf
https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings ... o_2_NC.pdf
https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings ... o-3_NC.pdf
https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings ... o_4_NC.pdf
Hubert Nearman, Full text:
https://www.shastaabbey.org/pdf/shoboAll.pdf
8 Tranlations of Genjokoan
http://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/ ... oKoan8.htm
Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist, Introduction to Dogen's Life and Teaching by Hee-Jin Kim
https://www.amazon.com/Eihei-Dogen-Myst ... al+realist
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Re: Shobogenzo Recommendations
Cannot appraise the accuracy of the translation, but I trust the Japanese publisher BDK. Note this blurb about volume one, in the upper right is a button for the free download of a pdf formatted volume. The other three vols. can also be downloaded or one can buy the printed books.CicadaCanto wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:22 pm I am interested in Dogen and his Shobogenzo. I have read small portions in translation. There are "Amazon reviews" and the reviews that practitioners would make. I am soliciting recommendations on a) translations of the Shobogenzo and b) books on Dogen's life and dharma works.
Thank you for your attention.
http://www.bdkamerica.org/book/shōbōgen ... y-volume-i
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Re: Shobogenzo Recommendations
'the true Dharma eye:Zen Master Dogen' s three hundred Koans' translated by John Daido Loori Roshi is excellent.
Re: Shobogenzo Recommendations
I've been reading the Nearman translation from Shasta Abbey 2007, 1100+ pages available in pdf- its a long read, I've found it very interesting thus far
Re: Shobogenzo Recommendations
Kazuaki Tanahashi has translated the whole thing, along with others, Shambala have brought out a nice two volume edition I notice, it's a bit pricey though, depends on the depth of your pockets! If your pockets are limited, like mine, Enlightenment Unfolds is brilliant
Re: Shobogenzo Recommendations
Hee-Jin Kim's translation Flowers of Emptiness - Selections from Dogen's Shobogenzo
". . . an incisive and penetrating analysis of Dogen's techniques of writing, demonstrating a superb mastery of Japanese Dogen scholarship. . . . a sensitive reading of the text that captures the `tantalizingly elusive, . . . brilliant, exquisite, evocative' texture of the original." - Philosophy East and West
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