Readings of Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma, Heine Hardcover^+

Readings of D?gen's \""Treasury of the True Dharma Eye\""Author(s): Steven Heine\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231182287, 978-0231182287\nSynopsis\nThe Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Sh?b?genz?) is the masterwork of D?gen [tel], founder of the S?t? Zen Buddhist sect in Kamakura-era Japan. It is one of the most important Zen Buddhist collections, composed during a period of remarkable religious diversity and experimentation. The text is complex and compelling, famed for its eloquent yet perplexing manner of expressing the core precepts of Zen teachings and practice.\n\nThis book is a comprehensive introduction to this essential Zen text, offering a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical examination of D?gens treatise. Steven Heine explores the religious and cultural context in which the Treasury was composed and provides a detailed study of the various versions of the medieval text tha.