AFTER WRITING “LEAVING THE Household” in 1246 C.E., Dogen edited and restructured all available fascicles of the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. With Ejo’s help, he organized them into two groups—the older and newer versions, as Ejo’s colophon to “Eight Awakenings of Great Beings” suggests. The former is the seventy-five-fascicle version and the latter the twelve-fascicle version. The “newer version,” however, includes texts that were written in earlier times, such as “Power of the Robe.” Dogen himself added the number of each fascicle to its beginning and ending titles, samples of which are seen in Dogen’s extant handwritten manuscripts, such as the “Mountains and Waters Sutra” and “Document of Heritage.” In the last seven years of his life, 1246–1253, Dogen seems to have spent much of his time in an effort to enhance the integrity of the writings contained in these two versions.
