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Index
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword to the Wisdom Edition: by Taigen Dan Leighton
Preface to the Wisdom Edition
Foreword to the Previous Edition by Robert Aitken
Preface to the First Edition
1. Toward a Total Understanding of Zen
2. Dōgen’s Life
The Historical and Social Background of Early Kamakura Japan
Early Childhood: Initiation into Impermanence
Apprenticeship in Buddhism
Transmission and Transformation of the Way in Japan
3. Activity, Expression, and Understanding
The Rightly Transmitted Buddha-Dharma
Zazen-Only: The Prototype of Ultimate Meaninglessness
Creative Activities
Creative Expressions
The Actional Understanding
4. The Religion and Metaphysics of Buddha-Nature
Two Strands of Mahāyāna Idealism
Mind: Beyond Monistic Pantheism and Reductionistic Phenomenalism
Buddha-Nature
Existence and Time
Religious Life and Buddha-Nature
5. Monastic Asceticism: The Way of Ritual and Morality
Background of Zen Monasticism
Purity and Purification
Nature: The Mountains and Waters
The Bodhisattva Ideal
The Problem of Good and Evil
Monastic Education
Appendices
A Chronology of Dōgen’s Life
B Major Works by Dōgen
C Names of the Ninety-two Chapters of the Shōbōgenzō
Notes
Works Consulted
Index
About the Author
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