Zen Buddhism Dogen Meditation Bielefeldt Scarce HC 1st Ed Soto Japan Philosophy

by Carl Bielefeldt

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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation Carl Bielefeldt Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1988. First Edition. Very Good hardcover, in very good dust jacket in archival mylar wrapper. Original cloth binding, tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text throughout, light foxing to topedge, previous owner's blindstamp to title page, 1" tear to dj repaired with archival tape. 8vo, scholarly apparatus with extensive notes and bibliography, index, 259 pages. Scarce hardcover. In 1988, as Western interest in Buddhist meditation reached unprecedented heights, Carl Bielefeldt—one of the foremost Western scholars of Japanese Buddhism—delivered what many consider the definitive English-language study of Zen's most influential meditation master. Dōgen Zenji (1200-1253) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan, whose revolutionary approach to seated meditation fundamentally transformed how practitioners understood the relationship between practice and enlightenment. Zen Buddhism is perhaps best known for its emphasis on meditation, and probably no figure in the history of Zen is more closely associated with meditation practice than the thirteenth-century Japanese master Dogen, founder of the Soto school. Bielefeldt's groundbreaking scholarship examines the historical and religious character of Dogen's meditation practice as descri

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 1998
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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