It Came from Beyond Zen!: More Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master

It Came from Beyond Zen!: More Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
ISBN-10
1608685128
ISBN-13
9781608685127
Category
Religion
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
2017-09-01
Publisher
New World Library
Author
Brad Warner

Description

Vol. 2 of Brad Warner’s Radical but Reverent Paraphrasing of Dogen’s Treasury of the True Dharma Eye In Japan in 1253, one of the great thinkers of his time died — and the world barely noticed. That man was the Zen monk Eihei Dogen. For centuries his main work, Shobogenzo, languished in obscurity, locked away in remote monasteries until scholars rediscovered it in the twentieth century. What took so long? In Brad Warner’s view, Dogen was too ahead of his time to find an appreciative audience. To bring Dogen’s work to a bigger readership, Warner began paraphrasing Shobogenzo, recasting it in simple, everyday language. The first part of this project resulted in Don’t Be a Jerk, and now Warner presents this second volume, It Came from Beyond Zen! Once again, Warner uses wry humor and incisive commentary to bridge the gap between past and present, making Dogen’s words clearer and more relevant than ever before.

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