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Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree - Giun's Verse Comments on Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Hardcover)
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Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree - Giun's Verse Comments on Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Hardcover)
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This book provides a translation and critical bilingual edition on
the Verse Comments on the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. The
Verse Comments by Giun (1253-1333), the fifth abbot of Eiheiji
temple, is an important early medieval Japanese commentary on the
60-chapter edition of the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
(Shobogenzo), one of the main versions of the masterwork written by
Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), the founder of the Soto Zen sect in Japan
who established Eiheiji in the mid-1240s. Giun's Verse Comments was
one of only two commentaries of the Treasury written during the
Kamakura era, with the other being a prose analysis of the
75-chapter edition, called Prose Comments on the Treasury of the
True Dharma Eye, often abbreviated to Distinguished Comments
(Gosho). While Distinguished Comments fell into disuse rather
quickly and was only revived nearly three hundred years later, the
Verse Comments was circulated widely from the time of its
composition and read by many Soto monks over the next couple of
centuries. Offering poems and cryptic expressions that seek to
capture the spiritual flavor and essential meaning of Dogen's
thought as suggested in each chapter, the Verse Comments is crucial
for understanding how Dogen's Treasury was received and
appropriated in the religious and literary context of medieval
Japan. In this book, Steven Heine's careful interpretations,
historical investigations, and theoretical reflections demonstrate
the significance of Giun's writings in light of the history of
pre-modern and modern commentaries on Dogen's masterwork, the
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye.
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