Eihei Kōroku (Dōgen's Extensive Record)

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A ten-volume record of Dōgen's later teaching at Eihei-ji, compiled by his successors. It collects formal jōdō (Dharma hall discourses), shōsan (informal talks), kōan commentaries, and Chinese-style verse — the documentary counterpart to Shōbōgenzō. The Leighton & Okumura translation makes the full Chinese-language record available in English for the first time.

tr. Taigen Dan Leighton & Shohaku Okumura, Dōgen's Extensive Record, Wisdom Publications 2004

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Original language

Attribution

• Attributed To
  Dōgen

Lineage: Sōtō

By Dōgen

• How to Sit (Fukanzazengi, opening)practice-instruction
• Not Aware of Enlightenmentproverb
• Continuous Practiceproverb
• Flowers Fall, Weeds Springproverb
• Firewood and Ash (Genjokoan)sermon

Sources

• contentDōgen's Extensive Record — A Translation of the Eihei Kōroku

  Taigen Dan Leighton & Shohaku Okumura (trans.)

  Translators' introduction

  The Eihei Kōroku is the major collection of the formal Dharma hall discourses, informal talks, and other writings of Eihei Dōgen, the thirteenth-century founder of the Japanese Sōtō Zen tradition.