Fukan zazengi普勧坐禅儀

c. 1227practice instructionsSōtōFree to read online

Author: Dōgen Kigen
Date: c. 1227
Also called: Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen
Language: Classical Chinese
Catalogue: Taishō T.2580
Used in: Sōtō

Dōgen’s short manual for seated meditation, first drafted, he says, in the Karoku years (1225–1227). The Taishō prints two texts, one signed and dated 1233 and one undated; the Sōtō school’s own translation follows the undated text.

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Fukan Zazengi (Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen)

TranslationEnglishSōtōshū (sotozen.com)

The Sōtō school’s English translation, published on its website. The school’s Sōtō School Scriptures for Daily Services and Practice contains a translation under the same title.

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Sōtō School Scriptures for Daily Services and Practice (sotozen.com)

Sources

Dōgen, Fukan zazengi 普勸坐禪儀 (1233) · link
Sōtōshū Shūmuchō, Fukan Zazengi (Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen) · link
Sōtōshū Shūmuchō, Soto School Scriptures for Daily Services and Practice · link
Steven Heine, Did Dōgen Go to China? What He Wrote and When He Wrote It (2006) · link

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