Steven Heine is professor of religious studies and history and director of Asian studies at Florida International University. His many books include Did Dōgen Go to China: What He Wrote and When He Wrote It (2006) and Dōgen: Textual and Historical Studies (2013).

This book, quite simply, may be the single best detailed survey and explanation of what Dogen was on about that I have ever read by an academic.

• List of IllustrationsPrefacePart I. Textual Sources and Resources1. Creativity and Originality: Orientations, Reorientations, and Disorientations2. Receptivity and Reliability: Numerous Levels of Significance3. Multiplicity and Variability: Differing Versions and InterpretationsPart II. Religious Teachings and Practices4. Reality and Mentality: On Perceiving the World of Sentient and Insentient Beings5. Temporality and Ephemerality: On Negotiating Living and Dying6. Expressivity and Deceptivity: To Speak or Not to Speak7. Reflexivity and Adaptability: The Functions and Dysfunctions of Meditation8. Rituality and Causality: On Monastic Discipline and MotivationAppendix 1: Titles of Treasury FasciclesAppendix 2: Comparison of Versions of the TreasuryAppendix 3: Timeline for Dōgen and the TreasuryAppendix 4: Complete Translations of the TreasuryCharacter GlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

Steven Heine is professor of religious studies and history and director of Asian studies at Florida International University. His many books include Did Dōgen Go to China: What He Wrote and When He Wrote It (2006) and Dōgen: Textual and Historical Studies (2013).

This book, quite simply, may be the single best detailed survey and explanation of what Dogen was on about that I have ever read by an academic.

• List of IllustrationsPrefacePart I. Textual Sources and Resources1. Creativity and Originality: Orientations, Reorientations, and Disorientations2. Receptivity and Reliability: Numerous Levels of Significance3. Multiplicity and Variability: Differing Versions and InterpretationsPart II. Religious Teachings and Practices4. Reality and Mentality: On Perceiving the World of Sentient and Insentient Beings5. Temporality and Ephemerality: On Negotiating Living and Dying6. Expressivity and Deceptivity: To Speak or Not to Speak7. Reflexivity and Adaptability: The Functions and Dysfunctions of Meditation8. Rituality and Causality: On Monastic Discipline and MotivationAppendix 1: Titles of Treasury FasciclesAppendix 2: Comparison of Versions of the TreasuryAppendix 3: Timeline for Dōgen and the TreasuryAppendix 4: Complete Translations of the TreasuryCharacter GlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

Steven Heine is professor of religious studies and history and director of Asian studies at Florida International University. His many books include Did Dōgen Go to China: What He Wrote and When He Wrote It (2006) and Dōgen: Textual and Historical Studies (2013).

This book, quite simply, may be the single best detailed survey and explanation of what Dogen was on about that I have ever read by an academic.

• List of IllustrationsPrefacePart I. Textual Sources and Resources1. Creativity and Originality: Orientations, Reorientations, and Disorientations2. Receptivity and Reliability: Numerous Levels of Significance3. Multiplicity and Variability: Differing Versions and InterpretationsPart II. Religious Teachings and Practices4. Reality and Mentality: On Perceiving the World of Sentient and Insentient Beings5. Temporality and Ephemerality: On Negotiating Living and Dying6. Expressivity and Deceptivity: To Speak or Not to Speak7. Reflexivity and Adaptability: The Functions and Dysfunctions of Meditation8. Rituality and Causality: On Monastic Discipline and MotivationAppendix 1: Titles of Treasury FasciclesAppendix 2: Comparison of Versions of the TreasuryAppendix 3: Timeline for Dōgen and the TreasuryAppendix 4: Complete Translations of the TreasuryCharacter GlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex