Shobogenzo Recommendations

[CicadaCanto]

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.

[dialectbird]

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.
合掌
DB

[Way-Fun]

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

[Nicholas Weeks]

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.

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.

http://www.bdkamerica.org/book/shōbōgen ... y-volume-i

[Kanji]

'the true Dharma eye:Zen Master Dogen' s three hundred Koans' translated by John Daido Loori Roshi is excellent.

[narhwal90]

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

[Kanji]

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

[WuMing]

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