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Purifying Zen - Watsuji Tetsuro’s Shamon Dogen (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Purifying Zen - Watsuji Tetsuro’s Shamon Dogen (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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"Purifying Zen: Watsuji Tetsuro’s Shamon Dogen makes available in
a clear and fluid translation an early classic in modern Japanese
philosophy. Steve Bein’s annotations, footnotes, introduction,
and commentary bridge the gap separating not only the languages but
also the cultures of its original readers and its new Western
audience." —from the Foreword by Thomas P. Kasulis In 1223 the
monk Dogen Kigen (1200–1253) came to the audacious conclusion
that Japanese Buddhism had become hopelessly corrupt. He undertook
a dangerous pilgrimage to China to bring back a purer form of
Buddhism and went on to become one of the founders of Soto Zen,
still the largest Zen sect in Japan. Seven hundred years later, the
philosopher Watsuji Tetsuro (1889–1960) also saw corruption in
the Buddhism of his day. Watsuji’s efforts to purify the religion
sent him not across the seas but searching Japan’s intellectual
past, where he discovered writings by Dogen that had been hidden
away by the monk’s own sect. Watsuji later penned Shamon Dogen
(Dogen the monk), which single-handedly rescued Dogen from the
brink of obscurity, reintroducing Japan to its first great
philosophical mind. Purifying Zen is the first English translation
of Watsuji’s landmark book. A text intended to reacquaint Japan
with one of its finest philosophers, the work delves into the
complexities of individuals in social relationships, lamenting the
stark egoism and loneliness of life in an increasingly Westernized
Japan. In addition to an introduction that provides biographical
details on Watsuji and Dogen, the translation is supplemented with
a brief guide to the themes and ideas of Shamon Dogen, beginning
with a consideration of the nature of faith and the role of
responsibility in Watsuji’s vision of Dogen’s Zen. It goes on
to examine the technical terms of Dogen’s philosophy and the role
of written language in Dogen’s thought.
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