T’ang Ch’an and the Myth of Bodhidharma

FROM A PAPER BY:
Albert Welter

A special transmission outside the
scriptures;
No dependence upon words and letters;
Direct pointing to the soul of man:
Seeing into one’s own nature and
attainment of
Buddhahood
Bodhidharma, First Patriarch of Zen (4-6 Cent. AD)

Zen Master Dogen’s Enlightenment

Dropping Off Body and Mind
Dharma Discourse by John Daido Loori, Roshi
Koans of the Way of Reality, Case 108
Featured in Mountain Record 21.1, Fall 2002
The Main Case
Dogen studied with Master Rujing. One evening during the intensive summer training, in the first year of Pao-chang, 1225, Rujing shouted at a disciple, “When you study under [...]

The History of the Soto Zen School

by T. Griffith Foulk
Introduction
Having been asked to speak on “the history of the Soto school,” I find myself faced with two very basic questions. First, what is this thing, the “Soto school,” that I am supposed to relate the history of? And second, what mode of historical discourse shall I adopt to speak of it?

Dualism, Emptiness and Awakening in a Dogen Perspective

Dogen’s Reflecting Pool
PRESENTED BY
the Wanderling

Explaining the path to Enlightenment is the mission of every Buddhist teacher since the time of the historical Buddha. From the San-lun school, to the teaching of Dogen Zenji, great thinkers attempt to relate their understanding of the Two-fold Truth and illuminate the most efficient path to Enlightenment. Dogen, the eminent [...]

Daisetz T. Suzuki - the Zen Way of Viewing Reality

Zen and Pragmatism–A Reply (Comment and Disussion)

DAISETZ T. SUZUKI

Philosophy East and West 4, no. 2, JULY 1954.
(c) by The University Press of Hawaii
WHEN I READ Dr. Ames’s able and stimulating article,”Zen and Pragmatism,”(1) I regretted that I had not made my points [...]

Han-shan - Instructions in the Critical Essentials of Cultivating Dhyana Meditation

By the Ming Dynasty Dhyana Master Han-shan De-ching
(Dharmamitra Translation)
From The Records of Dream Wanderings
The particular lineage of the dhyana gateway transmits the seal of the buddha mind. Originally, it was not a subtle matter. Beginning with Bodhidharma’s coming from the west, the idea of exclusive transmittal became established and the four fascicles [...]