SZTP Publications

Translations:

Soto School Scriptures for Daily Services and Practice. Tokyo: Sotoshu Shumucho, 2001. A complete translation of the Sotoshu liturgical manual, Sôtôshû nikka gongyô seiten, developed by a committee of Soto school representatives in consultation with SZTP and edited by Griffith Foulk.

Available from Zenshuji, 123 South Hewitt Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Soto Zen groups may order free examination copies. For information, e-mail kuwahara@sotozen.com. Currently, only the Introduction and Contents are available on this site.

Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma. In preparation. A complete annotated translation of the Shôbôgenzô, the collected vernacular writings of the founder of Japanese Sôtô Zen, Dôgen.

Individual chapters published serially in Dharma Eye, the journal of the Soto Zen Education Center. To subscribe to this free publication, write to Dharma Eye, Zenshuji, 123 South Hewitt Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012; or e-mail info@sotozen.com. As chapters appear in Dharma Eye or elsewhere, they will be made available on this site.

The following chapters have appeared to date:
Principles of Zazen (Zazen gi), Zen Quarterly 11:2-3 (1999)
Lancet of Zazen (Zazen shin), Religions of Japan in Practice (1999)
Mountains and Waters Sutra (Sansui kyô), Dharma Eye 9 (Autumn 2001)
Getting the Marrow by Doing Obeisance (Raihai tokuzui), Dharma Eye 10 (Spring 2002)
Not Doing Evils (Shoaku makusa), Dharma Eye 11 (Autumn 2002)
Penetration of Other Minds (Tashin tsû), Dharma Eye 12 (Spring 2003)
Old Buddha Mind (Kobutsu shin), Dharma Eye 13 (Autumn 2003)
Ocean Seal Samadhi (Kaiin zanmai), Dharma Eye 14 (Spring 2004)
The Arhart (Arakan), Dharma Eye 15 (Februrary 2005)
Talking of the Mind, Talking of the Nature (Sesshin sesshô), Dharma Eye 16 (Autumn 2005)

Instructions for the Cook. Translation by Griffith Foulk of Dôgen's Tenzo kyôkun, one of the texts of his collection of monastic codes known as the Eihei shingi.

Published in Jisho Warner et al., Nothing is Hidden: Essays on Zen Master Dôgen's Instructions for the Cook, pp. 21-40 (N.Y. and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 2001). Available on this site.

Related publications:

Shôhaku Okumura, ed., Dôgen Zen and Its Relevance for Our Time (San Francisco: Sôtô Zen Buddhism International Center, 2003. Papers of the 1999 Sotoshu-Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies symposium celebrating the 800th anniversary of Dôgen's birth. Sotoshu symposium website. SCBS online papers.

Bielefeldt, "Disarming the Superpowers: The abhijñâ in Eisai and Dôgen," in Dôgen zenji kenkyû ronshû [Dôgen Studies], ed. by Daihonzan Eiheiji Daionki Kyoku (Fukui-ken: Eiheiji, 2002). On the background of the Tashin tsû and Jinzû chapters of the Shôbôgenzô. Online version.

Foulk, "The Historical Context of Dôgen's Monastic Rules in Dôgen zenji kenkyû ronshû [Dôgen Studies], ed. by Daihonzan Eiheiji Daionki Kyoku (Fukui-ken: Eiheiji, 2002). On the background of the texts of the Eihei shingi.

Bielefeldt, "Circumabulating the Mountains and Waters" Dharma Eye 9 (2001). On translating the Shôbôgenzô. Online version.

Bielefeldt, "Sanka suru bukkyô ni mukete [Toward a Participatory Buddhism]," in Nara and Azuma, ed., Dôgen no nijûisseiki [Dôgen's Twenty-first Century] (Tokyo: Tokyo Shoseki, 2001). Thoughts on Dôgen and contemporary American Soto Zen. Online English version.

Bielefeldt, "Dôgen's Lancet of Seated Meditation," in G. Tanabe, ed., Religions of Japan in Practice, Princeton Readings in Religions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999). Translation of Shôbôgenzô zazen shin.



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