Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Zen Master Dogen's Genjokoan

by Hakuun Yasutani, Paul Jaffe (Translator), Taizan Maezumi (Foreword by)

Overview

Written by the founder of Japanese Zen, Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), the Genjokoan is often considered to be the key text within Dogen's masterwork, Shobogenzo. The Genjokoan addresses in terse and poetic language many of the perennial concerns of Zen, focusing particularly on the relationship between practice and realization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570626746
Publisher:	Shambhala
Publication date:	05/01/2001
Edition description:	Complete and ed.
Pages:	172
Sales rank:	509,090
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Yasutani Hakuun (1885-1973) was born in Japan during the Meiji era. Born into a poor family, he was adopted at the age of five and went to live in a country temple. He trained in many temples before starting a family at the age of thirty. At forty, he returned to the priesthood again, and eventually came to study with the Soto priest Harada Sogaku. Under this teacher, Hakuun's practice deepened, and he went on to teach monks and lay practitioners. He authored almost one hundred volumes of writings.