One of Bob Dylan's seminal songs is "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding" from "Bringing It All Ba... more One of Bob Dylan's seminal songs is "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding" from "Bringing It All Back Home" in 1965. Dylan critiques the shallowness of contemporary consumerist culture that makes "everything from toy guns that spark, to flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark." Dylan then proclaims, "It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred."2 In a world where not much is truly sacred, how does Dylan see what is indeed sacred, what he most values or finds meaningful?
To date, most scholarship on Dōgen (1200–1253) has focused on his Shōbō-genzō (Correct dharma eye... more To date, most scholarship on Dōgen (1200–1253) has focused on his Shōbō-genzō (Correct dharma eye treasury), and Dōgen’s translators have directed their efforts at this text and several shorter pieces. With the publication of Dōgen’s Extensive Record, Taigen Dan Leighton and Shohaku Okumura have made available an excellent translation of Dōgen’s other major work, the Eihei Kōroku, and have thereby opened up a rich resource to readers lacking facility with East Asian languages. In his substantial introduction, Leighton outlines Dōgen’s life, the significance of the Record in Dōgen’s corpus, Dōgen’s main disciples, and the use of the text in Zen practice. In an essay on the significance of the Record and its translation, prominent Dōgen scholar Steven Heine compares the Record and the Shōbō-genzō and highlights several doctrinal themes in the Record. The initial section of the book also features a short foreword by Tenshin Reb Anderson of the San Francisco Zen Center, comments by John...
This is an introduction to each of the four papers, to the response, and to the discussion genera... more This is an introduction to each of the four papers, to the response, and to the discussion generated in the context of their first presentation. Introduction to “Zen Social Ethics: Historical Constraints and Present Prospects” This collection of papers is from a panel organized by Chris Ives for the Ethics Section of the American Academy of Religion meeting in Philadelphia in November, 2005. As Chair of that panel I offer this brief introduction. The topic addresses a clear concern, apparent to scholars but also to many practitioners, about the problematic approach to ethics of the Zen Buddhist tradition and the place of ethics in its modern context. One major impetus for this concern is the challenge to Japanese Zen from Brian Victoria in his Zen at War, and the revelation of the active support by eminent Zen figures for Japanese militarism and jingoism
Copyright Notice: Digital copies of this work may be made and distributed provided no change is m... more Copyright Notice: Digital copies of this work may be made and distributed provided no change is made and no alteration is made to the content. Reproduction in any other format, with ... This is an introduction to each of the four papers, to the response, and to
... Many other methods of practicing zazen were advocated by various teachers in the Song, Yuan, ... more ... Many other methods of practicing zazen were advocated by various teachers in the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties in China. ... so bendowa means "a talk or discourse about how to practice the Way wholeheartedly." Next we should understand, "What is the Way?" Way (Do or ...
Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of …, 2004
Dōgen discussed extensively the old Zen encounter dialogue texts. Even if he did not conduct form... more Dōgen discussed extensively the old Zen encounter dialogue texts. Even if he did not conduct formal kōan training, in the sense of a particular kōan curriculum as in some of Rinzai Zen (as well as some of medieval Sōtō Zen), Dōgen comments on the old stories of the ancestors ...
One of Bob Dylan's seminal songs is "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding" from "Bringing It All Ba... more One of Bob Dylan's seminal songs is "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding" from "Bringing It All Back Home" in 1965. Dylan critiques the shallowness of contemporary consumerist culture that makes "everything from toy guns that spark, to flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark." Dylan then proclaims, "It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred."2 In a world where not much is truly sacred, how does Dylan see what is indeed sacred, what he most values or finds meaningful?
To date, most scholarship on Dōgen (1200–1253) has focused on his Shōbō-genzō (Correct dharma eye... more To date, most scholarship on Dōgen (1200–1253) has focused on his Shōbō-genzō (Correct dharma eye treasury), and Dōgen’s translators have directed their efforts at this text and several shorter pieces. With the publication of Dōgen’s Extensive Record, Taigen Dan Leighton and Shohaku Okumura have made available an excellent translation of Dōgen’s other major work, the Eihei Kōroku, and have thereby opened up a rich resource to readers lacking facility with East Asian languages. In his substantial introduction, Leighton outlines Dōgen’s life, the significance of the Record in Dōgen’s corpus, Dōgen’s main disciples, and the use of the text in Zen practice. In an essay on the significance of the Record and its translation, prominent Dōgen scholar Steven Heine compares the Record and the Shōbō-genzō and highlights several doctrinal themes in the Record. The initial section of the book also features a short foreword by Tenshin Reb Anderson of the San Francisco Zen Center, comments by John...
This is an introduction to each of the four papers, to the response, and to the discussion genera... more This is an introduction to each of the four papers, to the response, and to the discussion generated in the context of their first presentation. Introduction to “Zen Social Ethics: Historical Constraints and Present Prospects” This collection of papers is from a panel organized by Chris Ives for the Ethics Section of the American Academy of Religion meeting in Philadelphia in November, 2005. As Chair of that panel I offer this brief introduction. The topic addresses a clear concern, apparent to scholars but also to many practitioners, about the problematic approach to ethics of the Zen Buddhist tradition and the place of ethics in its modern context. One major impetus for this concern is the challenge to Japanese Zen from Brian Victoria in his Zen at War, and the revelation of the active support by eminent Zen figures for Japanese militarism and jingoism
Copyright Notice: Digital copies of this work may be made and distributed provided no change is m... more Copyright Notice: Digital copies of this work may be made and distributed provided no change is made and no alteration is made to the content. Reproduction in any other format, with ... This is an introduction to each of the four papers, to the response, and to
... Many other methods of practicing zazen were advocated by various teachers in the Song, Yuan, ... more ... Many other methods of practicing zazen were advocated by various teachers in the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties in China. ... so bendowa means "a talk or discourse about how to practice the Way wholeheartedly." Next we should understand, "What is the Way?" Way (Do or ...
Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of …, 2004
Dōgen discussed extensively the old Zen encounter dialogue texts. Even if he did not conduct form... more Dōgen discussed extensively the old Zen encounter dialogue texts. Even if he did not conduct formal kōan training, in the sense of a particular kōan curriculum as in some of Rinzai Zen (as well as some of medieval Sōtō Zen), Dōgen comments on the old stories of the ancestors ...
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