Kabanoff A. [Review:] Heine, Steven. Dogen ang the Koan Tradition: A Tale of two Shobogenzo Texts. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. 329 pp. // Петербургское востоковедение. Выпуск 9. СПб.: Центр «Петербургское Востоковедение», 1997. С. 577—579.
The name of Dogen (1200—1253)
does not need an introduction to anyone
who has at least a general knowledge
about Zen. However, for a long time the
Soto Zen tradition, implanted by him in
Japan, has been associated with certain
stereotypes that provided a distorted image
of the great Zen master. The book by
Steven Heine is the first attempt to radically
reevaluate former conventional approaches
to the Soto Zen and the writings
of its founder. His goal (though not
always successful) was to go beyond theframe of traditional scholarship and to
trace the importance of the Chinese Zen
koan tradition for Dogen. Heine is the
first Western scholar who turned away
from the Japanese “Shobogenzo” version
and tried to pay attention to the “Sanbyakusoku” (compiled by Dogen in Chinese)
that contains three hundred koan
cases without any annotations. Until recently
the latter work was considered
spurious but the recent studies of Japanese
scholars proved its genuineness...
22–24 апреля 2024 г. в ИВР РАН пройдет Третья Международная научная конференция «Рукописное наследие Востока», посвященная 140-летию со дня рождения Б.Я. Владимирцова (1884–1931).
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