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Eihei kōroku (Dōgen's Extensive Record)

永平広録

Dōgen contemplando la luna (Tsukimi no zō)
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It gathers 531 formal Dharma-hall sermons (jōdō), informal sermons, kōan commentaries, eulogies and Chinese poems, from Kōshō-ji to Eihei-ji. It is the main source for the teaching of his last years, and it contains the phrase about his return from China "with empty hands".

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Editions and translations · 1

English

Authorship note

Dōgen's sermons and poems in Chinese, compiled after his death by his disciples Senne, Ejō and Gien in ten volumes. The content is his; the selection and arrangement are the compilers'.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Dōgen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Kōroku

    Wisdom Publications, 2010

    Translation: Taigen Dan Leighton; Shohaku Okumura

    ISBN 9780861716708

    1.ª ed. 2004 (ISBN 9780861713059).

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Sources

  • Leighton, Taigen Dan; Okumura, Shohaku (trads.). Dōgen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Kōroku. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2004 (ed. rev. 2010, ISBN 9780861716708).

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