cover cover next page > title: Dogen and the Koan Tradition : A Tale of Two Shobogenzo Texts Suny Series in Philosophy and Psychotherapy author: Heine, Steven. publisher: State University of New York Press isbn10 | asin: 0791417735 print isbn13: 9780791417737 ebook isbn13: 9780585077727 language: English subject Dogen,--1200-1253, Dogen,--1200-1253.--Shobo genzo, Dogen,--1200-1253,--Mana Shobo genzo, Koan. publication date: 1994 lcc: BQ9449.D657H45 1993eb ddc: 294.3/927/092 subject: Dogen,--1200-1253, Dogen,--1200-1253.--Shobo genzo, Dogen,--1200-1253,--Mana Shobo genzo, Koan. cover next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/...ents/eBook%20html/Heine,%20Steven%20-%20Dogen%20and%20the%20Koan%20Tradition/files/cover.html[26.08.2009 19:21:52] cover-0 < previous page cover-0 next page > Dogen * and the Koan* Tradition < previous page cover-0 next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/...nts/eBook%20html/Heine,%20Steven%20-%20Dogen%20and%20the%20Koan%20Tradition/files/cover-0.html[26.08.2009 19:21:53] cover-1 < previous page cover-1 next page > SUNY Series in Philosophy and Psychotherapy Edited by Sandra A. 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For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246 Production by Cathleen Collins Marketing by Dana Yanulavich Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Heine, Steven, 1950- Dogen * and the Koan* tradition: a tale of two Shobogenzo* texts Steven Heine. p. cm. (SUNY series in philosophy and psychotherapy) Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-7914-1773-5. ISBN 0-7914-1774-3 (pbk.) 1.Dogen*, 1200-1253. 2. Dogen* 1200-1253, Shobogenzo*. 3. Dogen*, 1200-1253, Mana Shobogenzo*. 4. Koan. I. Title. II. Series BQ9449.D657H45 1993 294.3'927'092dc20 93-18446 CIP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 < previous page cover-3 next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/...nts/eBook%20html/Heine,%20Steven%20-%20Dogen%20and%20the%20Koan%20Tradition/files/cover-3.html[26.08.2009 19:21:55] cover-4 < previous page cover-4 next page > CONTENTS Illustrations ix Tables xi Preface xiii Chinese and Japanese Eras xix Abbreviations xxi Part I Methodological Issues 1 One Text and Untext: On the Significance of Koans * 3 3 Introduction to the Two Texts 14 Postmodernism and Zen Discourse 21 Satori Dialogues in Relation to Sung Zen Genres 38 Multiple Implications of the Term "Koan*" 43 Significance of the Koan* as a Zen Symbol 59 A Zen Problematic: Textuality and Untextuality Two Mythology and Demythology: The Aporetics of Koan* Studies 65 65 Two Sets of Problematical Issues 69 Nishitani's View of "Self-Surpassing" Zen < previous page cover-4 next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/...nts/eBook%20html/Heine,%20Steven%20-%20Dogen%20and%20the%20Koan%20Tradition/files/cover-4.html[26.08.2009 19:21:56] page_vi < previous page page_vi next page > Page vi 72 Five Main Aporetics of Zen Studies 81 The Function of Literary Criticism 87 The Koan * as Religious Symbol 96 Discourse Analysis in Dogen* and Koan* Studies Part II Interpretive Studies 101 Three Inter and Intra Textuality: A Tale of Two Shobogenzo* Texts 103 103 On Contextualizing Dogen's* Texts 106 Conventional View of Dogen* and the Koan* Tradition 123 Rethinking the Conventional View 135 Contrasting Dogen* and Ta-hui 149 The Two Shobogenzo* Texts Four Narratology and Tropology: Skin, Flesh, Bones, Marrow/Marrow, Bones, Flesh, Skin 159 159 On Resolving the Aporetics of Koan* Studies 163 Section A. "Skin, Flesh, Bones, Marrow" 163 Rethinking the Conventional View 174 On the Formation of Zen Genres 182 Roots and Branches 198 file:///C:/...nts/eBook%20html/Heine,%20Steven%20-%20Dogen%20and%20the%20Koan%20Tradition/files/page_vi.html[26.08.2009 19:21:56] page_vi Section B. "Marrow, Bones, Flesh, Skin" 200 The Elements of a Tropological Interpretation 216 Dogen's* KS Text in Comparison with Koan-roku* Texts 237 Conclusions: Does the Koan* Have Buddha-Nature? < previous page page_vi next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/...nts/eBook%20html/Heine,%20Steven%20-%20Dogen%20and%20the%20Koan%20Tradition/files/page_vi.html[26.08.2009 19:21:56] page_vii < previous page page_vii next page > Page vii 243 Appendix I. Translations of Kana Shobogenzo * Fascicles 257 Appendix II. On the Mana Shobogenzo* Glossary of Sino-Japanese Terms, Names and Titles 277 Notes 289 Bibliography 311 Index 323 < previous page page_vii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/...ts/eBook%20html/Heine,%20Steven%20-%20Dogen%20and%20the%20Koan%20Tradition/files/page_vii.html[26.08.2009 19:21:57] page_ix < previous page page_ix next page > Page ix ILLUSTRATIONS 3.1 Soto * Lineage 115 3.2 Rinzai Lineage 116 3.3 Alternative Lineage 136 4.1 Five Stages 170 4.2 Modified View 173 4.3 Beyond the Conventional View 173 4.4 Roots and Branches 182 4.5 Alternative Paradigms 194 4.6 Interpretive Influences on the KS 195 4.7 Role of Abbreviation 217 < previous page page_ix next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/...nts/eBook%20html/Heine,%20Steven%20-%20Dogen%20and%20the%20Koan%20Tradition/files/page_ix.html[26.08.2009 19:21:58] page_xi < previous page page_xi next page > Page xi TABLES 3.1 Dogen * vs. Ta-hui 118 3.2 Influences on Dogen* and Ta-hui 145 4.1 Dating of Main Zen Texts in Four Genres 172 < previous page page_xi next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/...nts/eBook%20html/Heine,%20Steven%20-%20Dogen%20and%20the%20Koan%20Tradition/files/page_xi.html[26.08.2009 19:21:58] page_xiii < previous page page_xiii next page > Page xiii PREFACE This book has three major goals in critically examining the historical and philosophical relation between the writings of Dogen * and the Zen koan* tradition. First, it introduces and evaluates recent Japanese scholarship concerning Dogen's* two Shobogenzo* texts, the Japanese (Kana) collection of ninety-two fascicles on Buddhist topics and the Chinese (Mana) collection of three hundred koan* cases also known as the Shobogenzo* Sanbyakusoku. The authenticity of the Mana Shobogenzo*, long considered spurious, has recently been convincingly demonstrated, and now this text can be seen as a bridge linking Dogen's* Japanese Soto* Zen to Sung era Zen in China, where Dogen* studied and attained enlightenment. Second, this book develops a new methodology for clarifying the development of the koan* tradition and the relation between multifarious interpretations of koan* cases based on postmodern literary criticism and intellectual history. Referred to here as "discourse analysis," the method integrates the notions of intertextuality and genre criticism, which focus on the formation of texts, with narratology and tropology, which highlight their rhetorical meaning and function. Discourse analysis demonstrates how Dogen's* unconventional handling of Zen anecdotes, such as Bodhidharma's "skin, flesh, bones, marrow," Chao-chou's Mu, Te-shan's "rice cake," and Ma-tsu's "polishing the tile," are based on polysemy and continuing hermeneutics in connection to the trope of metonymy in a way that is just as consistent with the tropological structure of the source dialogues as interpretations based on abbreviation and silence in connection to irony. Third, the book's emphasis on a literary critical methodology challenges the conventional reading of koans* stressing exclusively the role < previous page page_xiii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C:/...ts/eBook%20html/Heine,%20Steven%20-%20Dogen%20and%20the%20Koan%20Tradition/files/page_xiii.html[26.08.2009 19:21:58] page_xiv < previous page page_xiv next page > Page xiv of psychological impasse culminating in silence. Without negating the significance of the psychological implications in koan * practice, discourse analysis reorients the issue of the effectiveness of koans* as a religious symbol in terms of textuality and rhetorical strategies. This is my third book on Dogen* studies. The first book, Existential and Ontological Dimensions of Time in Heidegger and Dogen* (1985), is a comparative philosophical study of Dogen's* notions of time, impermanence, and death in relation to Heidegger's phenomenological analysis of temporality, finitude, and dying in Being and Time. It includes a translation of Dogen's* ''Uji" ("Being-Time") fascicle. The second book, A Blade of Grass: Japanese Poetry and Aesthetics in Dogen* Zen (1989), is the first complete translation of Dogen's* Japanese poetry collection ("Dogen* Zenji Waka Shu*" or "Sanshodoei*") with an introductory essay on Dogen's* connection to the medieval Japanese religio-aesthetic tradition. The underlying theme of these works is the issue of impermanence in Dogen's* thought: how and why he challenges some traditional doctrines concerning Buddha-nature and original enlightenment that he feels overlook or betray the basic Buddhist understanding of the ephemerality of all human and natural phenomena by locating enlightenment as a realm beyond the vicissitudes of everyday time.