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	( Dogen Zenji - Zen - Zazen, Soto-Zen, Japan And Israel)
		Dogen freed himself from the illusion of the ego, the result of dualistic thinking and he experienced deeply the bliss of Buddhist truth.
		In Dogen's view it is precisely because we are now in the period of decline that we must make unrelenting efforts to live in the spirit of the Buddha and to grasp the essence of Buddhism directly.
		Dogen strongly rejected the one-sided sectarian Buddhism that ignores the mainstream and clings to trivia.
	www.zenki.com /AboutDogen.htm (2436 words)

	DOGEN ZENJI
		Dogen was the founder of the Soto (T'sao Dong Ch'an) Lineage of Buddhism in Japan.
		Dogen finally studied with Eisai, a Rinzai master, who told him it was a delusion to think in such dualistic terms as Buddha Nature.
		Dogen's Soto school taught that sitting in Zazen was entering the flow of each moment by dropping from the mind the concepts of past, present, and future.
	sped2work.tripod.com /dogen.html (1390 words)

	ASZC: Abbot's commentary: Introduction to Dr. Soyu Matsuoka, Roshi's Reflections on Dogen Zenji
		Dogen's life, method, protocol and teachings have been at the core of the development of the Soto school, which is the largest Zen sect in Japan, for the last 800 years.
		When she died Dogen Zenji felt profound grief and was deeply impressed with the transiency of things as he saw the smoke of the burning incense slowly rising in the air of the funeral room.
		Dogen Zenji saw enlightenment as the conclusion of religious belief in the Buddha-nature and in the unity of enlightenment and practice.
	www.aszc.org /abbot/2000_Sept.html (2676 words)

	ipedia.com: Dogen Zenji Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dogen Zenji, a title which translates literally to "Elementary-Way Zen-Master", was a Japanese Zen teacher and founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan.
		Dogen Zenji (January 19, 1200 - September 22, 1253), a title which translates literally to "Elementary-Way Zen-Master", was a Japanese Zen teacher and founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan.
		Dogen's masterpiece is the Shobogenzo, a collection of essays on the Buddhadharma in 95 chapters that reveal his thoughts and faith.
	www.ipedia.com /dogen_zenji.html (485 words)

	Dogen Summary
		Dōgen Zenji (道元禅師; January 19, 1200 - September 22, 1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher and founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan.
		Dogen came from a noble family and he quickly learned the meaning of the word "mujō" (impermanence).
		As Dogen scholar Steven Heine remarks: "Dogen's poetic and philosophical works are characterized by a continual effort to express the inexpressible by perfecting imperfectable speech through the creative use of wordplay, neologism, and lyricism, as well as the recasting of traditional expressions." (Heine, 1997, p.
	www.bookrags.com /Dogen (3171 words)

	Sotan Tatsugami Roshi Dogen
		Dogen Zenji states that no matter what you are about to do throwing away everything should be the basic attitude towards life.
		A central point of Dogen Zenji's teaching is to be found in the following statement taken from the Fukanzazengi: "This cross-legged sitting is not step by step meditation." You do not practice zazen with the thought of climbing up the ladder step by step, like graduating from grade school, high school, and college.
		In Shobogenzo Dogen Zenji said that zazen in full lotus position, which transcends all aspects of phenomena without any hindrances, is to settle oneself gracefully and sublimely in the depths of the Buddhas and Patriarchs.
	www.stanford.edu /~funn/Sotan.Tatsugami.html (4146 words)

	Eihei Dogen Kigen Zenji
		Dogen Zenji, the founder of Eiheiji was born in 1200 A.D. When he was 24, he went to China and devoted himself to true Zen practice under the strict guidance of Nyojozenji at Mt.Tendo.
		Dogen thus founded Eiheiji, where he devoted himself to training his followers in the perfection of Zen practice in every action of daily life.
		Dogen zenji's authentic Zen has been scrupulously observed by his successors.
	members.aol.com /kyosan1/dogenbe.htm (192 words)

	What Are We Ignoring About Breathing? by the late Taizan Maezumi Roshi
		In Dogen Zenji's Fukanzazengi, he instructs that the "ears and shoulders are in a straight line, and the nose and belly button are in a straight line." When you sit in that position, the center of the upper, middle and lower tanden will be in a straight line and the qi will flow efficiently.
		Dogen Zenji used the words "right body in straight sitting." In zazen instruction, we always place the tip of the tongue against the roof of the mouth.
		Dogen Zenji says that zazen is "imprinting the Buddha seal upon your body, breath and mind." Furthermore, "sit straight in samadhi," the state of forgetting.
	www.thebuddhadharma.com /issues/2003/summer/maezumi.html (3329 words)

	On The Life of Dogen Zenji
		Master Dogen was born in Japan in the year 1200 and died in 1253.
		Before Master Dogen there was no true practice of Zazen in Japan, therefore Master Dogen believed that he was the only person to bring true Buddhism to Japan.
		But Master Dogen noticed that if we make our efforts in studying Buddhism for fame or for profit we can never arrive at the truth, because if we study Buddhism to get fame or to get economic profit, our Buddhist efforts can never be begun.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /on_the_life_of_dogen_zenji.htm (5317 words)

	Forum: Understanding Dogen
		Dogen’s rise to stardom may be partly a function of the spread of his school in America, but his reputation as a Buddhist author goes beyond his status as founder of the Japanese Soto Zen tradition.
		Dogen (1200-1253), though the son of a prominent aristocratic family, seems to have been something of an outsider in Japanese Buddhist circles, and his Soto school, though highly popular in the countryside, played relatively little role in the development of medieval Zen culture.
		Dogen is commonly thought to have emphasized monasticism, and he did work hard to train a group of monastic disciples.
	www.thebuddhadharma.com /issues/2004/summer/panel.htm (5969 words)

	Dogen
		Dogen, in the GenjoKoan fascicle of his masterwork Shobogenzo (The Eye and Treasury of the True Law), makes this statement: "To study Buddhism is to study the self.
		At the time Master Dogen was born, Japanese society was in an extremely unsettled period.
		Dogen, born in a noble family, quickly learned the meaning of the Buddhist word "mujo" (impermanence).
	www.erraticimpact.com /~ancient/html/dogen.htm (1175 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Dogen
		Dogen, Zenji (道元禅師, 1200 - 1253) was a Japanese Buddhist teacher and founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan.
		Two years after, he finally realized liberation of body and mind, free from ego.
		Dogen came back to Japan after four years abroad.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/do/Dogen (352 words)

	DHARMA MEMPHIS - Dogen Kigen Zenji
		Dogen thus founded Eiheiji, where he devoted himself to training his followers in the perfection of Zen practice in every action of daily life.
		At the age of seven, in 1207, Dogen lost his mother, who at her death earnestly asked him to become a monastic to seek the truth of Buddhism.
		We are told that in the midst of profound grief, Dogen experienced the impermanence of all things as he watched the incense smoke ascending at his mother''s funeral service.
	www.dharmamemphis.com /meditation/Dogen_Kigen_Zenji.htm (634 words)

	MN Zen Center: Just Sitting (Okumura)
		Dogen was born in Kyoto in Japan 1200.
		He was about 42 or 43 years old when he died in China, and Dogen brought his ash from China to Japan --he wrote about carrying the ash of his teacher.
		Dogen Zenji recorded his question and answer with his teacher and the record is still there; it's written in Chinese, so he could speak and write Chinese freely.
	www.mnzencenter.org /just_sitting_Okumura.html (5682 words)

	The
		Dogen Zenji was a Zen Buddhist priest, teacher, and the founder of the Soto Zen school in Japan.
		Dogen understood “katto” as the “intimate intertwining relationship” between Zen teachers and their immediate students and the “deep spiritual entanglement” that every Zen practitioner has with Shakyamuni Buddha and all the ancient patriarchs and matriarchs who embodied Zazen in their everyday lives.
		Dogen himself revealed the meaning of “katto” when he completely chewed up the roots and vegetables of the ancient patriarchs digested them in the pristine furnace of Zazen meditation, metabolized them into the blood, bones, and marrow of his daily Zen practice, and skillfully extended their nourishment in the teachings of the Shobogenzo.
	www.zendoctor.com /EyeTreasure.html (10514 words)

	Dogen Zen Symposium Hartman Paper
		Dogen Zenji himself when he discovered zazen practiced diligently with his teacher in Japan and went with his teacher to China to learn the true Buddha Dharma.
		I think the second thing that Dogen Zenji wrote was Bendô wa, "A Talk on Whole Hearted Practice of the Way", and I think of that as almost a kind of love letter to zazen.
		This vision I feel is the compassionate gift which we have received from Dogen Zenji and from all of the monks who have come here to share this practice with us.
	scbs.stanford.edu /calendar/1999-00/dogen_zen/papers/hartman.html (2874 words)

	Dogen Zenji 800 of His Birth
		Dogen Zenji was born in Kyoto in 1200, the year after the death of Minamoto no Yoritomo, founder of the military government known as the Kamakura shogunate.
		Dogen Zenji studied Zen Buddhism at the Kennin-ji under the guidance of the priest Myozen (1184-1225).
		Dogen Zenji devoted himself entirely to attaining the true, authentic Buddhism of Shakyamuni, to formulating his own philosophy, and to transmitting them both to posterity.
	www.sotozen-net.or.jp /kokusai/friends/zf11_2/zen11_2_02.html (2361 words)

	thezensite: Dogen Studies
		Dogen Symposium: 16 June 2001 Papers presented under the symposium theme, Dogen Zenji's Mind Here and Now The link will take you to the English pages.
		William M Bodiford: Remembering Dogen: Eiheiji and Dogen Hagiography This is an excellent essay on the history of Eiheiji and its centuries-long fight to become the head temple of the Sōtō Sect and memorialize its founder, Dogen.
		Heine argues a Three Periods Theory of Dogen's writing suggesting that the main change, which occurred with the opening of Eihei-ji in 1245, was a matter of altering the style of instruction rather than the content or ideology.
	www.thezensite.com /MainPages/Dogen_studies.html (1061 words)

	The Zen philosopher: A review article on Dogen scholarship in English
		Dogen was blessed not only with the necessary intellectual talent but also, being of aristocratic background, with the training in the Chinese classics to enable him to play a role in this reformation.
		Apparently, though, Dogen's Tendai companions were not ready to embrace this zazen as the one exclusive practice of Buddhism; they demanded doctrinal justification for the superiority of this practice.
		Dogen considers himself a traditionalist, that is, he does not see any opposition between his own view and that of the major Buddhist sutras and commentaries.
	ccbs.ntu.edu.tw /FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/kasulis.htm (8107 words)

	United Earth - Dogen Zenji Quotes, Biography & Chronology
		Dogen Zenji (January 19, 1200 - September 22, 1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher and founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan.
		Dogen was born to Koga Michichiki, a government minister, and to Ishi, daughter of Fujiwara Motofusa.
		Dogen came from a noble family and he quickly learned the meaning of the word "mujo" (impermanence).
	www.unitedearth.com.au /dogen.html (1155 words)

	March April 2003 Stillpoint
		Dogen's teaching is a precious treasure that is astoundingly appropriate to the modern world.
		Dogen's ashes would be on the altar in the temple he founded in the 13th century, and the hopeless barbarians would sit on the seat of honor.
		Dogen was ordained at the head temple of the Tendai sect on Mt. Hiei, north of Kyoto, on an outdoor platform.
	www.dharma-rain.org /StillPoint/archives/SPmar_apr03.shtml (2566 words)

	(Introduction - Dogen Zen - Zazen, Soto-Zen, Japan And Israel)
		Masunaga Reiho answered: "Zen is the practice that helps every human being to penetrate to his true self through cross leg sitting (Zazen), and to vitalize this self in daily life".
		Masunaga Reiho (1901-1981) and his explanations and teachings of Dogen's Zen, and to his disciple Mr.
		is Dharama heir and a member of the Soto Zen lineage in Japan that was established by Dogen Zenji.
	www.zenki.com /introduction.html (808 words)

	Dogen Zenji
		En 1225 Dogen recibió la transmisión de Ju-ching en 1225 y en 1227 regresó a Japón.
		Luego de su regreso Dogen empezó a escribir su extensa obra y simultáneamente comenzó la construcción del templo Koshoji en Uji, cerca de Kyoto.
		Luego de un año de padecer una enfermedad de tipo pulmonar, Dogen murió el 28 de agosto de 1253.
	www.zencolombia.org /dogen.htm (422 words)

	My Zazen Notebook
		Dogen Zenji and Sawaki Roshi practiced zazen throughout their lives and recommended it to people widely.
		Dogen Zenji admonished us: Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading.
		Dogen Zenji tends to describe zazen simply by sitting body postures such as shoshin- tanza (just sitting in correct posture), taza (just sitting), gotsu-za (sitting immovable like a bold mountain; "gotsu" means a bold mountain).
	www.ashokaedu.net /explore/zazensankyu.htm (2309 words)

	CUTTING THE CAT INTO ONE: the Practice of the Bodhisattva Precepts
		In Dogen zenji's time, it was possible for a monk or nun to be trained in either or both of the Hinayana or Mahayana Precepts.
		Dogen zenji saw this as an immense failure; he saw it as a Teacher with bloody hands standing before embarrassed, horrified, and confused students.
		Dogen Zenji: One phrase, one verse--that is the ten thousand things and one hundred grasses; one Dharma, one realization--that is all Buddhas and Ancestral Teachers.
	www.geocities.com /the_wanderling/cuttingcat.html (5543 words)

	Kanzeon Zen Centrum Den Haag - Shobogenzo Zazengi by Dogen Zenji
		Dogen Zenji's reference to him is intended to indicate that just sitting is the fundamental practice.
		Dogen Zenji (1200-1253) is the founder of Japanese Soto Zen.
		Dogen Zenji is respected as one of the greatest figures in the history of Japanese Buddhism.
	www.kanzeon.nl /zazengi.html (794 words)

	Amazon.ca: Heart of Dogen's Shobogenzo the: Books: Dogen,Norman Waddell,Masao Abe (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Doµgen's uncommon intellectual gifts, combined with a profound religious attainment and an extraordinary ability to articulate it, make Shoµboµgenzoµ unique even in the vast literature the Zen school has produced over the centuries, securing it a special place in the history of world religious literature.
		Eihei Dogen Zenji (1200-1253), founder of the Soto Zen school, is one of the greatest prose stylists and thinkers in the history of Buddhism.
		Waddell and Abe roundly dispell this misapprehension and convey a Dogen who had something important to say, and who used every means he had at his disposal to say it.
	www.amazon.ca /Heart-Dogens-Shobogenzo-Dogen/dp/0791452425 (810 words)

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