Shinji Shōbōgenzō

The Shinji Shōbōgenzō or True Dharma Eye 300 Cases (Shōbōgenzō Sambyakusoku), or Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Mana Shōbōgenzō), compiled by Eihei Dōgen in 1223-1227, was first published in Japanese in 1766. The literary sources of the Shinji Shōbōgenzō are believed to have been the Keitoku Dentōroku and the Shūmon Tōyōshū.^[1] It is considered significant that "this koan collection -- in Dogen's hand -- demonstrated that the Soto tradition had 'lost' the meaning (wisdom) of Dogen's work".^[2] It is written in Chinese, the language of the original texts from which the koans were taken.

English translations

• Nishijima, Gufo Wafu (February 1, 2003). Master Dogen's Shinji Shobogenzo. Windbell Publications. ISBN 9780952300267.
• Loori, John Daido; Tanahashi, Kazuaki (December 13, 2005). The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 9781590302422.

See also

• Shōbōgenzō
• 101 Zen Stories
• The Gateless Gate
• Blue Cliff Record
• Book of Equanimity

References

1. Steven Heine : Did Dōgen Go to China? Oxford University Press, 2006. p. 144
2. Dharma Transmission in Dogen's Zen

External links

• Miller, Gregory (2007). "Review of Zen Master Dōgen's Three Hundred Kōans". Journal of Buddhist Ethics. Archived from the original on June 15, 2010.
• Introduction to the Shinji Shobogenzo translated by Gudo Wafu Nishijima - Edited by Michael Luetchford & Jeremy Pearson
• Dogen's 300 Koans by Daido Loori, delivered at the Symposium on Dogen Zen at Stanford University
• comments on koans from Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye by John Daido Loori, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly
• The 300 koan-s of the Mana Shōbōgenzō