Shōbōgenzō

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Shōbōgenzō ( Japanese 正法 眼 蔵 ; German lit .: "The treasure chamber of the true Dharma eye") is the main work of the Japanese Zen master Dōgen , which he wrote in the period from August 1231 to January 1253 (the year he died). The Shōbōgenzō is the central script for the followers of the Sōtō -Zen.

The writing gained a meaning beyond the school of Sōtō-Zen in Japan in the 20th century after the philosopher Watsuji Tetsurō (1889-1960) published it in his 1924 treatise Shamon Dōgen ( 沙門 道 元 ; German "the monk Dōgen") as a product of "originally Japanese thinking" and wanted to snatch it "from the clutches of the sect (of Sōtō-Zen)". As a result, the thinking presented in this work was re-examined by numerous Japanese thinkers.

Typical literary stylistic devices that characterize Chinese intellectuals of the Song era , such as the writings of highly educated nobles in Japan at the same time, are mixed with their own and unmistakable style. The quotations show the wide range of works that Dōgen has read. It is classical Chinese literature from Confucius to contemporary works of the time, with Buddhist literature dominating.

Translations

German
  • Dōgen: Shōbōgenzō: selected writings: philosophizing differently from Zen . Translated, explained and edited. by Ryōsuke Ōhashi and Rolf Elberfeld . Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 2006 (careful selection translation with explanations; review online ; PDF; 66 kB)
  • Master Dōgen: Shobogenzo. The treasure trove of the true Dharma eye . 4 volumes, Kristkeitz, Heidelberg-Leimen 2001–2008 (commented translation from the Japanese original)
  • Dogen Zenji: Shōbōgenzō, The Treasure of the True Dharma. Complete edition , translated by Joseph Renner, AM Eckstein, Guido Keller. Angkor Verlag, Frankfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-936018-58-5 (complete edition in one volume, also contains the two volumes from Theseus Verlag)
English
  • Gudo Wafa Nishijima, Chodo Cross (Ed.): Master Dogen's Shobogenzo . 4 volumes, Windbell, London 1994–1999
  • Nishijima, Gudo, Cross, Chodo; (tr.), Shōbōgenzō, Vol. 1-4, Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, Berkeley 2007-2008, ISBN 978-1-886439-35-1 , 978-1-886439-36-8, 978-1 -886-439-37-5, 978-1-886439-38-2
  • Dogen, Thomas Cleary (trans.); Shobogenzo: Zen Essays By Dogen; U. of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1986; ISBN 0-8248-1014-7 .
  • Hubert Nearman (tr.): Shôbôgenzô . PDF

literature

  • Steven Heine: Did Dōgen Go to China? What He Wrote and When He Wrote It . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-530570-8 (basic study of the genesis of Dōgen's works)
  • Dagmar Doko Waskoenig : The Shobogenzo of Doge Zenji. The central passages - developed and commented on by Dagmar Doko Waskönig . OW Barth 2010, ISBN 978-3426291740

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