Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Dōgen’s texts

Manifesting Religion and/as Philosophy?

  • Book
  • © 2023

Overview

Editors:
  1. Ralf Müller

    1. Department of Philosophy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. George Wrisley

    1. History, Anthropology, & Philosophy, University of North Georgia, Gainesville, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Covers both historic and systemic issues within Dogen scholarship
  • Contributes to the modern reception of Dogen whilst mediating between East and West
  • Includes works of many revered Dogen scholars spanning the fields of religion and philosophy

  • 1220 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 99.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-l
    Download chapter PDF

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 289-339
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This book addresses the question of how to properly handle Dōgen’s texts, a core issue that became critical during the Meiji period in which the philosophical appropriation of Dōgen became apparent inside and outside of the monastery. 

In present day Dōgen studies, most scholarship is informed by a number of factions representing Dōgen.  The chapters herein address: the Zennist (j. zenjōka) emphasising practice, the Genzōnians (j. genzōka) shifting the attention to the close reading of Dōgen’s texts, the laity movement opening up both the texts and the practice to people in modern society, and the Genzō researchers (j. genzō kenkyūka) searching for the authenticity and truth of Dōgen’s writings. 

The book aims to clarify the rightful place of Dōgen: in the monastery, in denominational studies, or in modern academic philosophy?  It brings forth various viewpoints on Dōgen, and analyzes the relations of these viewpoints from the premodern to modern times.  The collected volume appeals to students and researchers in the field while establishing hermeneutic standards of reading and proposing new, original, and critical interpretations of Dōgen’s texts.

Chapter From Uji to Being-time (and Back): Translating Dōgen into Philosophy is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Ralf Müller

  • History, Anthropology, & Philosophy, University of North Georgia, Gainesville, USA

    George Wrisley

About the editors

Dr. Ralf Mueller works at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim, Germany.  His Ph.D. Dissertation was on the Zen Buddhist figure, Dogen, the central figure of this present volume. 

Dr. George Wrisley is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Georgia. His areas of expertise are Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Ethics, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche and Buddhism. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dōgen’s texts

  • Book Subtitle: Manifesting Religion and/as Philosophy?

  • Editors: Ralf Müller, George Wrisley

  • Series Title: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42246-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42245-4Published: 08 December 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42248-5Due: 19 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-42246-1Published: 07 December 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2211-1107

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-1115

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: L, 339

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Buddhism

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation