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Fukanzazengi (Universal Recommendation for Zazen)
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Fukanzazengi (Universal Recommendation for Zazen)
普勧坐禅儀
A short manifesto in Chinese parallel prose presenting zazen as the universal practice, open to all. It describes the place, posture, breathing and mental attitude —"thinking not-thinking"— and asserts that zazen is not a method for attaining awakening but "the Dharma gate of ease and joy". It is the text Sōtō monasteries recite each evening.
Authorship note
Written by Dōgen in classical Chinese. Tradition dates it to 1227, on his return from China; the oldest autograph copy (Tenpuku version, 1233) is kept at Eiheiji and is a National Treasure. The widely circulated version (rufubon) is a later revision.
Editions and translations
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English
Dōgen
Dōgen's Manuals of Zen Meditation
The Conscious LibraryDōgen's Manuals of Zen Meditation
University of California Press, 1988
Translation: Carl Bielefeldt
Estudio y traducción de las versiones del Fukanzazengi.
Chino clásico · 文言
Dōgen
普勸坐禪儀
The Conscious Library普勸坐禪儀
Eiheiji, Shōyō daishi shōgyō zenshū, vol. 1 / Wikisource, 1909
Texto original de dominio público.
Other works by Dōgen
- Shōbōgenzō (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) · 1253
- Eihei kōroku (Dōgen's Extensive Record) · 1253
- Tenzo kyōkun (Instructions for the Cook) · 1237
- Gakudō yōjinshū (Points to Watch in Studying the Way) · 1234
- Bendōhō (Model for Engaging the Way) · 1246
- Fushukuhanpō (The Dharma for Taking Food) · 1246
- Shuryō shingi (Pure Standards for the Study Hall) · 1249
- Taitaiko gogejarihō (Dharma for Honouring Seniors) · 1244
- Chiji shingi (Pure Standards for the Temple Administrators) · 1246
- Eihei shingi (Pure Standards of Eihei) · 1667
- Hōkyōki (Record of the Baoqing Era) · 1227
- Shinji Shōbōgenzō (Mana Shōbōgenzō) · 1235
- Shōbōgenzō zuimonki (Record of Things Heard) · 1238
- Eihei goroku (Abbreviated Record of Eihei) · 1264
- Sanshō dōei (Songs of the Way from Sanshō Peak) · 1253
- Shari sōdenki (Record of Transmitting the Relics) · 1227
- Kyōjukaimon (Instructions on the Precepts) · 1253
- Busso shōden bosatsukai sahō (Ritual of the Bodhisattva Precepts Transmitted by the Buddhas and Ancestors) · 1253
- Gokoku shōbōgi (The True Dharma for Protecting the Nation) [lost] · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 1: "Genjōkōan" (Actualizing the Fundamental Point) · 1233
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 2: "Maka hannya haramitsu" (The Perfection of Great Wisdom) · 1233
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 3: "Busshō" (Buddha-Nature) · 1241
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 4: "Shinjin gakudō" (Studying the Way with Body and Mind) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 5: "Sokushin zebutsu" (This Very Mind Is Buddha) · 1239
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 6: "Gyōbutsu iigi" (The Awesome Presence of Active Buddhas) · 1241
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 7: "Ikka myōju" (One Bright Pearl) · 1238
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 8: "Shin fukatoku" (The Mind Cannot Be Grasped) · 1241
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 9: "Kobutsushin" (Old Buddha Mind) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 10: "Daigo" (Great Enlightenment) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 11: "Zazengi" (Principles of Zazen) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 12: "Zazenshin" (Lancet of Zazen) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 13: "Kaiin zanmai" (Ocean Seal Samadhi) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 14: "Kūge" (Flowers in the Sky) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 15: "Kōmyō" (Radiant Light) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 16: "Gyōji" (Continuous Practice) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 17: "Inmo" (Suchness) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 18: "Kannon" (Avalokiteśvara) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 19: "Kokyō" (The Ancient Mirror) · 1241
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 20: "Uji" (Being-Time) · 1240
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 21: "Juki" (Predictions) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 22: "Zenki" (Total Dynamic Working) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 23: "Tsuki" (The Moon) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 24: "Gabyō" (Painted Rice Cake) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 25: "Keisei sanshoku" (The Voice of the Valley Streams, the Form of the Mountains) · 1240
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 26: "Bukkōjōji" (Going Beyond Buddha) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 27: "Muchū setsumu" (Within a Dream Expressing the Dream) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 28: "Raihai tokuzui" (Getting the Marrow by Doing Obeisance) · 1240
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 29: "Sansuikyō" (Mountains and Waters Sutra) · 1240
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 30: "Kankin" (Reading Sutras) · 1241
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 31: "Shoaku makusa" (Refrain from Unwholesome Action) · 1240
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 32: "Den'e" (Transmitting the Robe) · 1240
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 33: "Dōtoku" (Expressing the Way) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 34: "Bukkyō" (The Buddha's Teaching) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 35: "Jinzū" (Spiritual Powers) · 1241
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 36: "Arakan" (Arhat) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 37: "Shunjū" (Spring and Autumn) · 1244
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 38: "Kattō" (Twining Vines) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 39: "Shisho" (Document of Heritage) · 1241
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 40: "Hakujushi" (The Cypress Tree) · 1242
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 41: "Sangai yuishin" (The Triple World Is Only Mind) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 42: "Sesshin sesshō" (Speaking of Mind, Speaking of Essence) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 43: "Shohō jissō" (True Form of All Things) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 44: "Butsudō" (The Buddha Way) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 45: "Mitsugo" (Intimate Language) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 46: "Mujō seppō" (The Insentient Preach the Dharma) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 47: "Bukkyō" (Buddha Sutras) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 48: "Hosshō" (Dharma Nature) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 49: "Darani" (Dhāraṇī) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 50: "Senmen" (Washing the Face) · 1239
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 51: "Menju" (Face-to-Face Transmission) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 52: "Busso" (Buddha Ancestors) · 1241
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 53: "Baika" (Plum Blossoms) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 54: "Senjō" (Cleansing) · 1239
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 55: "Jippō" (The Ten Directions) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 56: "Kenbutsu" (Seeing the Buddha) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 57: "Henzan" (Extensive Study) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 58: "Ganzei" (Eyeball) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 59: "Kajō" (Everyday Activity) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 60: "Sanjūshichihon bodai bunpō" (Thirty-Seven Factors of Enlightenment) · 1244
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 61: "Ryūgin" (The Dragon's Song) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 62: "Soshi seirai i" (The Meaning of Bodhidharma's Coming from the West) · 1244
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 63: "Hotsu mujōshin" (Arousing the Supreme Mind) · 1244
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 64: "Udonge" (Udumbara Blossom) · 1244
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 65: "Nyorai zenshin" (The Whole Body of the Tathāgata) · 1244
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 66: "Zanmai ō zanmai" (King of Samadhis Samadhi) · 1244
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 67: "Ten hōrin" (Turning the Dharma Wheel) · 1244
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 68: "Dai shugyō" (Great Practice) · 1244
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 69: "Jishō zanmai" (Samadhi of Self-Verification) · 1244
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 70: "Kokū" (Space) · 1245
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 71: "Hou" (The Bowl) · 1245
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 72: "Ango" (Practice Period) · 1245
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 73: "Tashintsū" (Reading Other Minds) · 1245
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 74: "Ōsaku sendaba" (The King Requests Saindhava) · 1245
- Shōbōgenzō (75 fascicles), no. 75: "Shukke" (Home-Leaving) · 1246
- Shōbōgenzō (12 fascicles), no. 1: "Shukke kudoku" (The Merit of Home-Leaving) · 1250
- Shōbōgenzō (12 fascicles), no. 2: "Jukai" (Receiving the Precepts) · 1250
- Shōbōgenzō (12 fascicles), no. 3: "Kesa kudoku" (The Merit of the Kāṣāya) · 1240
- Shōbōgenzō (12 fascicles), no. 4: "Hotsu bodaishin" (Arousing the Mind of Awakening) · 1250
- Shōbōgenzō (12 fascicles), no. 5: "Kuyō shobutsu" (Making Offerings to Buddhas) · 1250
- Shōbōgenzō (12 fascicles), no. 6: "Kie buppōsōbō" (Taking Refuge in the Three Treasures) · 1250
- Shōbōgenzō (12 fascicles), no. 7: "Jinshin inga" (Deep Faith in Cause and Effect) · 1250
- Shōbōgenzō (12 fascicles), no. 8: "Sanjigō" (Karma of the Three Times) · 1250
- Shōbōgenzō (12 fascicles), no. 9: "Shime" (The Four Horses) · 1250
- Shōbōgenzō (12 fascicles), no. 10: "Shizen biku" (The Monk of the Fourth Dhyāna) · 1250
- Shōbōgenzō (12 fascicles), no. 11: "Ippyakuhachi hōmyōmon" (The One Hundred Eight Gates of Dharma Illumination) · 1250
- Shōbōgenzō (12 fascicles), no. 12: "Hachi dainingaku" (The Eight Awarenesses of the Great Being) · 1253
- Shōbōgenzō, "Bendōwa" (Talk on Wholehearted Practice of the Way) · 1231
- Shōbōgenzō, "Bodaisatta shishōbō" (The Bodhisattva's Four Methods of Guidance) · 1243
- Shōbōgenzō, "Hokke ten hokke" (The Dharma Blossom Turns the Dharma Blossom) · 1241
- Shōbōgenzō, "Yuibutsu yobutsu" (Only Buddha and Buddha) · 1250
- Shōbōgenzō, "Shōji" (Birth and Death) · 1250
- Shōbōgenzō, "Dōshin" (The Mind of the Way) · 1250
- Shōbōgenzō, "Jūundō shiki" (Rules for the Jūundō Hall) · 1239
- Shōbōgenzō, "Jikuin mon" (Instructions for the Kitchen) · 1246
Sources
- Bielefeldt, Carl. Dōgen's Manuals of Zen Meditation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
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