...Yuriko Saito Existential and Ontological Dimensions of Time in Heidegger and Dōgen . By Steven Heine . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1985 . (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies.) x, 202 pp. Appendix: A Translation of Dōgen's “Uji” (Being Time). Notes, Glossary of Japanese...

.... In presenting such a picture, Ooms has provided a corrective that has long been needed. Yale University JOHN WHITNEY HALL In the areas of fiscal and economic policy, there is growing evidence that the shogunate Zen Master Dogen: An Introduction with was developing a more pragmatic approach to commercial agents...

...Albert Welter Dōgen and the Kōan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shōbōgenzō Texts . By Steven Heine . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1994 . xxii, 329 pp. $16.95. Rational Zen: The Mind of Dogen Zenji . Translated and edited by Thomas Cleary . Boston : Shambhala...

...Tadanori Yamashita Dōgen Studies . Edited by William R. LaFleur . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1985 . (Studies in East Asian Buddhism, no. 2.) iv, 165 pp. Notes, List of Contributors, Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Terms. $19 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Leon Hurvitz Abstract The collective name of the work whose translation is here being reviewed was apparently added, long after their composition, to ten of Dōgen's (1200–1253) minor works–only two of which bear a date (1234). How long after the event the compilation was made may be deduced from...

...Steven Heine Dōgen et les Paradoxes de la Bouddhéité: Introduction, traduction, et commentaire du volume de la Bouddhéité (Trésor de l'Oeil de la loi authentique) . By Pierre Nakimovitch . Genève : Librairie Dorz S.A . 453 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001...

...Eric Cunningham Purifying Zen: Watsuji Tetsurō's Shamon Dōgen . By Tetsurō Watsuji . Translated by Steve Bein . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2011 . xvi, 174 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Purifying...

...David Pollack A Blade of Grass: Japanese Poetry and Aesthetics in Dōgen Zen . By Steven Heine . Asian Thought and Culture 1. New York : Peter Lang , 1989 . xxi, 171 pp. $32.90. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 157 A Blade of Grass...

...Carl Bielefeldt Dōgen's Formative Years in China: An Historical Study and Annotated Translation of the Hōkyō-ki . By Takashi James Kodera . Boulder, Colo. : Prajñā Press , 1980 . xx , 258 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Chinese text. $25.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...Shigenori Nagatomo Impermanence is Buddha-nature: Dōgen's Understanding of Temporality . By Joan Stambaugh . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1990 . x, 146 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 422 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES traditions...

...John R. McRae Dōgen's Manuals of Zen Meditation . By Carl Bielefeldt . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1988 . 259 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 853 However, the author's goals are far more...

... JAPAN 847 the following expressions, which are intended to shed light on Dogen's teachings: "only during this mode of awareness is the horizon presenced in such a manner that all potential noemata share a non-privileged position" (p. 148); "the horizon is presenced in a non-privileged manner wherein all...

... University of Iowa Dogen and the Koan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shobogenzo Texts. By STEVEN H E I N E . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. xxii, 329 pp. $16.95. Rational Zen: The Mind of Dogen Zenji. Translated and edited by T H O M A S CLEARY. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1993- 225 pp...

... thesis has been tested by more than two decades of constant use by students of Japanese culture and architecture. DAVID L. PAULSON, AIA University of Colorado Shobogenzo, Zen Essays. By DOGEN. Translated by THOMAS F. CLEARY. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. viii, 123 pp. Notes, Glossary. $14...

... Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 389 of Dogen presented here is not simply an objective reconstruction; in part, at least, it reflects an image of Dogen informed by Soto dogmatics. This does not necessarily mean that the picture is false; but it does raise the question of the textual evidence...

... THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES as Cleary has eschewed it. In the end, he has produced a challenging work that many will find rewarding (even if marred by unnecessary repetition). In broadest terms, Heine's work attempts to bridge the gap between the two tendencies in modern Dogen studies described above...

... meditation, and he analyzes the evolution of Ch'an doctrines and texts during the Sung as a recapitulation of some of the basic themes of the "sudden practice" that emerged from the Southern school of early Chinese Ch'an of the eighth century. When he turns his attentions to Dogen and the Japanese milieu...

..., informative, and most of all, thought-provoking. The essays link the appreciation of the art to a historical and cultural context, in the best tradition of interdisciplinary art historical scholarship. PATRICIA J. GRAHAM Hobart and William Smith Colleges Impermanence is Buddha-nature: Dogen's Understanding...

... defies any dualistic understanding. A case in point is her example of the eternity-versus-time distinction: if the concept of Buddhanature is eternal, transcending the temporal order (or is existentially and temporally potential), it goes counter to Dogen's claim that Buddha-nature presences itself...

... and revised over a period extending for twenty years, from 1233, when Dogen established his first temple in the outskirts of Kyoto, to the time of his death in 1253, the vast majority of fascicles were composed during a compressed period of four or five years, from 1240 to 1244, which is around the time...