This complete translation of Masao Abe’s essays on Dogen probes the core of the Zen master’s philosophy and religion. This work analyzes Dogen’s formative doubt concerning the notion of original awakening as the basis for his unique approach to nonduality in the doctrines of the oneness of practice and attainment, the unity of beings and Buddha-nature, the simultaneity of time and eternity, and the identity of life and death. Abe also offers insightful, critical comparisons of Dogen and various Buddhist and Western thinkers, especially Shinran and Heidegger.
Table of Content
Notes on Abbreviations
Editor’s Introduction
Author’s Introduction
I. The Oneness of Practice and Attainment: Implications for the Relation between Means and Ends
II. Dogen on Buddha-nature
III. Dogen’s View of Time and Space
IV. The Problem of Time in Heidegger and Dogen
V. The Problem of Death in Dogen and Shinran, Part I
VI. The Unborn and Rebirth: The Problem of Death in Dogen and Shinran, Part II
Notes
Glossary of Sino-Japanese Terms
Index
About the author
Steven Heine is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of Existential and Ontological Dimensions of Time in Heidegger and Dogen and editor of Masao Abe’s A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion, both published by SUNY Press. He has also written A Blade of Grass: Japanese Poetry and Aesthetics in Dogen Zen and A Dream within a Dream: Studies in Japanese Thought.
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