Visions of Awakening Space and Time
Dogen and the Lotus Sutra
Published on 17. May 2007
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-19-532093-0 (ISBN)
Description
As a religion concerned with eternal salvation, Zen is based on and grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism. Leighton explicates this worldview through the writings of the Zen master Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), considered the founder of the Japanese Soto Zen tradition, which is now spreading in many places in the West. Broader awareness of Dogen's worldview and its implications, says Leighton, is helpful for a modern understanding of Zen and Mahayana praxis, and is relevant to contemporary environmental and ethical concerns.
Reviews / Votes
Among the eminent Buddhist figures of premodern Japan, perhaps none has drawn more attention in the West than the Zen master Dogen (1200-1253). In a fresh approach, this volume moves beyond Dogen's explicitly Zen heritage to explore his indebtedness to the imagery and rhetorical strategies of the Lotus Sutra in articulating his vision of practice. Leighton is sensitive to the playfulness and creativity of Dogen's hermeneutics. His study will be welcomed by readers interested in the Mahayana as literature and in situating Dogen within the broader intellectual currents of his day. * Jacqueline I. Stone, author of Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-532093-0 (9780195320930)
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Taigen Dan Leighton is an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Theological Union, Institute of Buddhist Studies and author of Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression. He is primary co-translator and editor for several Zen translations, including D=ogen's Extensive Record and Cultivating the Empty Field. He is also a S=ot=o Zen priest and Dharma heir.
Content
I.: The Pivotal Lotus Story and Dogen's Worldview
II.: Hermeneutics and Discourse Styles in Study of the Lotus Sutra and Dogen
III.: Selected East Asian Interpretations of the Story
IV.: Dogen's Interpretations of this Lotus Sutra Story
V.: Dogen's View of Earth, Space, and Time Seen in Mahayana Context
Afterword: Implications of Dogen's Mahayana Worldview
Endnotes
Bibliography
II.: Hermeneutics and Discourse Styles in Study of the Lotus Sutra and Dogen
III.: Selected East Asian Interpretations of the Story
IV.: Dogen's Interpretations of this Lotus Sutra Story
V.: Dogen's View of Earth, Space, and Time Seen in Mahayana Context
Afterword: Implications of Dogen's Mahayana Worldview
Endnotes
Bibliography