Dogen's Extensive Record

A Translation of the Eihei Koroku

By: Taigen Dan Leighton

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Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto School of Zen, is renowned as one of the world's most remarkable religious thinkers. As Shakespeare does with English, Dogen utterly transforms the language of Zen, using it in novel and extraordinarily beautiful ways to point to everything important in the religious life.

He is known for two major works. The first work, the massive Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye), represents his early teachings and exists in myriad English translations; the second work, the Eihei Koroku, is a collection of all his later teachings, including short formal discourses to the monks training at his temple, longer informal talks, and koans with his commentaries, as well as short appreciatory verses on various topics. The Shobogenzo has received enormous attention in Western Zen and Western Zen literature, and with the publication of this watershed volume, the Eihei Koroku will surely rise to commensurate stature.

Dogen's Extensive Record is the first-ever complete and scholarly translation of this monumental work into English and this edition is the first time it has been available in paperback. This edition contains extensive and detailed research and annotation by scholars, translators and Zen teachers Taigen Dan Leighton and Shohaku Okumura, as well as forewords by the eighteenth-century poet-monk Ryokan and Tenshin Reb Anderson, former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center - plus introductory essays from Dogen scholar Steven Heine, and the prominent, late American Zen master John Daido Loori.

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"This massive work will be a valuable asset not just for students of the Zen teacher Dogen (1200-1253), but for all students of Zen and Buddhism in general. In short, Leighton and Okumura's translation of Dogen's Extensive Record is a valuable contribution to the growing body of Zen literature available in English. It allows Western readers to discover a new side of Dogen, the side he presented to his own students on a daily basis. It will reward careful study."--William M. Bodiford, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

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Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Overview of Dōgen's Teaching Career	p. 1
The Move to Echizen	p. 7
The Significance of Eihei Kōroku in Dōgen's Writings	p. 9
The Question of Shifts in Dōgen's Teachings	p. 15
Dōgen's Great Disciples and the Spread of Sōtō Zen in Japan	p. 19
Other Disciples	p. 25
Dōgen's Use of Kōans	p. 27
The Eihei Kōroku Text and Translation Notes	p. 32
The Jōdō (Dharma Hall Discourses), Volumes 1-7	p. 35
The Shōsan (Informal Meetings) and Hōgo (Dharma Words), Volume 8	p. 38
Kōans and Juko (Verse Comments), Volume 9	p. 40
The Poems, Volume 10	p. 41
Using Eihei Kōroku as a Practice Tool	p. 43
Acknowledgments	p. 47
The Significance of Eihei Kōroku and Its Translation	p. 51
Dōgen and Kōans	p. 61
"On Reading Eihei Kōroku"	p. 69
Eihei Kōroku
Dharma Hall Discourses 1-126 (1236-1243)	p. 75
Dharma Hall Discourses 127-184 (1245-1246)	p. 151
Dharma Hall Discourses 185-257 (1246-1248)	p. 205
Dharma Hall Discourses 258-345 (1248-1249)	p. 253
Dharma Hall Discourses 346-413 (1249-1251)	p. 311
Dharma Hall Discourses 414-470 (1251)	p. 371
Dharma Hall Discourses 471-531 (1251-1252)	p. 421
	p. 473
Informal Meetings 1-20	p. 473
Dharma Words 1-14	p. 498
Fukanzazengi	p. 532
Kōans with Verse Comments 1-90	p. 537
Poetry	p. 599
Verses of Praise on Portraits 1-5	p. 599
[Dōgen's] Verses of Praise on Portraits of Himself 1-20	p. 601
Assorted Verses 1-125	p. 610
Indexes
Chronological Index of Dharma Hall Discourses with Dates	p. 647
Index and Glossary of Names	p. 653
Pinyin Names with Japanese Transliterations and Kanji	p. 685
Index of Translators' Names of Dharma Hall Discourses	p. 691
General Index	p. 707
Selected Bibliography	p. 785
About the Translators	p. 799
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