Dogen on meditation and thinking : a reflection on his view of Zen / Hee-Jin Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Hee-Jin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meditation--Sotoshu.

Meditation.

Sōtōshū--Doctrines.

Sōtōshū.

Dōgen, 1200-1253.

Dōgen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 169 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Thirty years after the publication of his classic work Dogen Kigen - Mystical Realist, Hee-Jin Kim reframes and recasts his understanding of Dogen's Zen methodology in this new book. Through meticulous textual analyses of and critical reflections on key passages primarily from Dogen's Shobogenzo, Kim explicates hitherto underappreciated aspects of Dogen's religion, such as the ambiguity of delusion and also of enlightenment, intricacies of negotiating the Way, the dynamic functions of emptiness, the realizational view of language, nonthinking as the essence of meditation, and a multifaceted conception of reason."--Jacket

Contents:

""Dōgen on Meditation and Thinking""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. A Shattered Mirror, a Fallen Flower""; ""2. Negotiating the Way""; ""3. Weighing Emptiness""; ""4. The Reason of Words and Letters""; ""5. Meditation as Authentic Thinking""; ""6. Radical Reason: DÅ?ri""; ""Postscript""; ""Glossary of Sino-Japanese Words, Names, and Titles""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-159) and index.

ISBN:

9780791480908

0791480909

OCLC:

923406041