Preface. A Fisherman's Dream
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
PART I. Historical and Methodological Issues
1. "A Dharma-Transmitter Who Traveled to Sung China":
2. Gone Fishin': Sources and Re-sources:
PART 2. Theory and Periodization
3. The Early Period: Dogen Went to China:
4. The Middle Period, Part I: The Kyoto Cycle:
5. The Middle Period, Part II: The Echizen Cycle:
6. The Late Period: Outpost Administrator or Brilliant
Innovator?:
Appendix
Bibliography
Steven Heine is Professor and Director of the Institute for Asian
Studies at Florida International University. He specializes in the
history of thought of Zen Buddhism and its transition from China to
Japan, especially the life and works of Zen Master D=ogen. He has
published twenty books and numerous articles on East Asian religion
and society. Dr. Heine was recently awarded the Kauffman
Professorship in Entrepreneurship Studies at the Florida
International University Business School.
"Did D=ogen go to China? is a well-written piece of sound
scholarship that fills a glaring lacuna in D=ogen studies. Heine
builds on his deep expertise of D=ogen's life and work as well as
of k=oan literature to tackle central issues in the hagiographical
accounts of D=ogen's life. He displays a solid knowledge of all
relevant sources and rethinks D=ogen's life in the context of the
latest research. This volume constitutes an invaluable
contribution
to D=ogen scholarship."--Gereon Kopf, author of Beyond Personal
Identity: D=ogen, Nishida and a Phenomenology of No-Self
"An indispensable vademecum to the work of the Soto Zen master.
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to say that he brings us face to face with the flesh-and-blood
Dogen and his multifarious creative activities, and thus provides
an anchorage and a perspective for which puzzled readers of the
Shobogenzo will be profoundly grateful."--Monumenta Nipponica
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textual research, and required reading for all serious students of
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and from opposing perspective."--William Harmless, SJ, Creighton
University
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