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""Moon in a Dewdrop" is empty and clear at the same time, like the reflection of the moon in a drop of water."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Kazuaki Tanahashi and his colleagues at the San Francisco Zen Center...have given us an accessible and comprehensive Dogen in English."--"Vajradhatu Sun"
"Kazuaki Tanahashi...has preserved Dogen's spirit and character in his careful and comprehensive translations."--"East West"
"Kazuaki Tanahashi and his colleagues at the San Francisco Zen Center...have given us an accessible and comprehensive Dogen in English."--"Vajradhatu Sun"
"Kazuaki Tanahashi...has preserved Dogen's spirit and character in his careful and comprehensive translations."--"East West"
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Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), among the first to transmit Zen Buddhism from China to Japan and founder of the important Soto School, was not only a profoundly influential and provocative Zen philosopher but also one of the most stimulating figures in Japanese letters.
Kazuaki Tanahashi, collaborating with several other Zen authorities, has produced sensitive and accurate translations of Dogen's most important texts. "Moon in a Dewdrop "contains the key essays of the great master, as well as extensive background materials that will help Western readers to approach this significant work. There is also a selection of Dogen's poetry, most of which has not appeared in English translation before.
Dogen's thought runs counter to conventional logic, employing paradoxical language and startling imagery. It illuminates such fundamental concerns as the nature of time, existence, life, death, the self, and what is beyond self.
Kazuaki Tanahashi, collaborating with several other Zen authorities, has produced sensitive and accurate translations of Dogen's most important texts. "Moon in a Dewdrop "contains the key essays of the great master, as well as extensive background materials that will help Western readers to approach this significant work. There is also a selection of Dogen's poetry, most of which has not appeared in English translation before.
Dogen's thought runs counter to conventional logic, employing paradoxical language and startling imagery. It illuminates such fundamental concerns as the nature of time, existence, life, death, the self, and what is beyond self.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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An excellent book which rates as 5 star but only for those who have had adequate prior study of Zen literature. Dogen in his inimitable style writes and talks about reality and Zen with so much depth and elegance, thats its hard to appreciate with a lay mind. Reading it over and over begins to unfold the meaning layer by layer. A certain degree of inner calm is essential to understand any of Dogen' work, else it only reads like a Koan at times and excellent poetry at others. Once you start getting it, the beauty of Dogen's words is sheer ecstasy.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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These writings of Dogen contain one of the most fascinating teachings in Zen literature, that of the Time Being.This teaching is of rare and great price. However in fact the whole book is full of wonderful paradox and many open questions that are at the heart of Zen and, scholar or not, the teachings require leaps of extreme reliquishment of mundane and pedestrian thinking that blights us in this overly rational world.Like so much of the greatest poetry and literature this book is one that may require constant rereading in order to find the treasure that is potentially there on every page.As more and more translations of Zen Buddhist teachings are coming on stream I feel I would like to pay tribute to those who are working away to get the numerous treasures of the Japanese and Chinese documents translated and into the West.In my own book I have written on the fly leaf 'Beware all ye that enter here! It is a portal of transformation. Do not expect to enter, travel and return!'
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This volume presents a lot of Dogen writings in a very helpful manner. Dogen is hard reading and only for the advanced student will this make sense. But when you do grasp Dogen, you realize that you are dealing with the most profound Japanese thinker who ever lived.
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