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Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community: A Translation of Eihei Shingi
Author Leighton, Taigen Dan ; Okumura, Shohaku
Date1996
Pages272
PublisherState University of New York Press (SUNY Press)
Publisher Url http://www.sunypress.edu./index.html
LocationAlbany, NY, US [奧爾巴尼, 紐約州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
Note506; Series:SUNY series in Buddhist Studies. Foreword by Ikko Narasaki Roshi & Jusan Kainei Edward Brown.
Keyword禪宗=Zen Buddhism=Zazen Buddhism; 僧團=叢林=Monastic Community=Buddhist Community; 佛教組織=Buddhist Organization
AbstractThis book is a complete translation of "Eihei Shingi," the major writing by the great 13th century Japanese Zen master Eihei Dogen about

monastic practice and the role of community life in Buddhism.
In addition to detailing procedural guidelines and instructions for monastic forms, in this work,Dogen noted for his profound and poetic insight,focuses on

the appropriate attitudes and psychology for practitioners in community,and provides a collection of koans or teaching stories, about spiritual community

life.
Along with the translation,the book includes a substantial introduction,informative annotation and glossaries of persons mentioned in the stories and of

traditional technical terms.

Table of contents
Introduction by Taigen Daniel Leighton
Overview of Dogen's Writings
1. The Role of Community in Buddhism
2. Alignment with Nature
3. Cultural Adaptation and Expression
4. Introductions to the Individual Essays
5. Chan Stories and the Soto Use of Koans
6. Significance of the Eihei Shingi in Dogen's Teaching and Practice
7. Contemporary Understandings of Dogen's Historical Context
8. Earlier Monastic Codes
9. The Textual History of the Eihei Shingi
10.Development of Standards for the Community in the Keizan Shingi
11.Translation Issues:Gender and Pronouns
12.Dogen's Use of Language
13.Glossaries and Notes
14.Personal Experience of the Monastic Container
15.Conclusion
16.The Pure Standards of Eihei Dogen Zenji [Eihei Shingi]
17.Instructions for the Tenzo (Tenzokykun)
18.The Model for Engaging the Way (Bendoho)
19.The Dharma for Taking Food (Fushukuhanpo)
20.Regulations for the Study Hall (Shuryo Shingi)
21.The Dharma when Meeting Senior Instructors of Five Summer Practice Periods (Taitaiko Gogejariho)
22.Pure Standards for the Temple Administrators (Chiji Shingi)
Director [Kan'in]
Ino [Supervisor of Monks]
Tenzo [Chief Cook]
Work Leader [Shissui]
Appendix:Afterword to the Shohon Edition
Glossary of Japanese Terms
Glossary and Index of Names
Lineage Charts
ISBN0791427099; 0791427102
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Created date2002.05.23
Modified date2014.03.05



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