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Dōgen on Buddha-Nature

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Dōgen (1200–53) is one of the most outstanding and distinctive figures in the history of Japanese Buddhism. He is unique in at least the following three senses.

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  1. Sokuō Etō (ed.),Shōbōgenzo, Iwanami-bunko edition (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1942) II, ‘Butsudō’o’ fascicle, p. 217.

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  2. Dōgenshū (A collection of Dōgen) ed. Kōshirō Tamaki, Nihon no shisō, II (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 1969) p. 146.

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  3. Sanskrit ‘manusya,’ like the English term ‘man’, is etymologically connected with ‘man’ — to think. Hajime Nakamura, The Ways of Thinking of Asian Peoples (Tokyo: Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, 1960) pp. 108–10.

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  4. Keiji Nishitani, Religion and Nothingness (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982) p. 49.

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  5. See Isshū Miura and Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen Dust (Kyoto: The First Zen Institute of America in Japan, 1966) pp. 253–5.

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  8. also see Heinrich Dumoulin: History of Zen Buddhism (NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1965) p. 153.

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  9. Gakudō-yōjinshū in Dōgen Zenji Goroku, ed. Dōshū Ōkubo, Iwanami bunko edn (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1941) p. 42.

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  10. Ibid., p. 26.

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  11. Hakujū Ui (ed.) Hōkyōki, Iwanami bunkō edn (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1940) p. 44.

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  12. Martin Heidegger: Was ist Metaphysik? (Vittorio Klosterman, Frankfurt A. M., 1949) p. 31.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, USA

    Masao Abe (Professor of Japanese Philosophy)

  2. University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    William R. LaFleur (Associate Professor of Oriental Languages)

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  1. University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    William R. LaFleur (Associate Professor of Oriental Languages) (Associate Professor of Oriental Languages)

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© 1985 Masao Abe and William R. LaFleur

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Abe, M., LaFleur, W.R. (1985). Dōgen on Buddha-Nature. In: LaFleur, W.R. (eds) Zen and Western Thought. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06994-1_2

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