Dogen · Theology
Dōgen’s journey to China, his return ‘empty-handed,’ his founding of Sōtō Zen and the great monastery Eiheiji, and the <em>Shōbōgenzō</em> - the ‘Treasury of the True Dharma Eye,’ a vast body of teaching written in Japanese, named for the wordless realization no scripture can contain.
You learned that Dōgen (1200 to 1253) traveled to China, awakened under Rujing, returned ‘empty-handed,’ founded Sōtō Zen and Eiheiji, and composed the Shōbōgenzō (‘Treasury of the True Dharma Eye’) in vernacular Japanese - a title pointing to a realization passed mind-to-mind, beyond the lette…
Leads to Bodhidharma.
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