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2020 | 17 | 53-69

Article title

Dōgena Fukan zazengi jako tekst ujawniający istotne rysy buddyjskiej praktyki

Content

Title variants

EN
Fukan zazengi by Dōgen as a text revealing the essential features of Buddhist practice

Languages of publication

Abstracts

EN
The aim of this article is the presentation and relatively detailed analysis of the text written by the medieval monk Dogen entitled Fukan zazengi. This is one of the most important religious scriptures in the history of Japanese Buddhism and Buddhism in general, constituting the basic instructional manual within the wide Mahayana current. In the article I present the author’s view, which boils down to emphasizing the importance of independent meditation practice based on examples of former masters. At the same time, I emphasize the fi nal mystery of the actual practice itself and Dogen’s advice to reject the understanding of religious practice in terms of profi t and loss. The paper also touches the problem occurring within two versions of the discussed meditation instruction. The diff erences in the two texts are twofold, on the one hand, more or less signifi cant corrections throughout the whole text and on the other hand one fundamental change that determines the core of religious practice, which is, after all, a sine qua non of Buddhism. As I will try to prove, this change, contrary to appearances, is not as revolutionary as it might seem and both versions reveal the same secret of sitting meditation.

Year

Volume

17

Pages

53-69

Physical description

Dates

published
2020

Contributors

  • Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej

References

  • Bielefeldt C., Dōgen’s Manuals of Zen Meditation, Berkeley 1988.
  • Dōgen, Oko i skarbiec prawdziwego prawa, tłum. M. Kanert, Kraków 2005.
  • Krishnamurti J., Total Freedom, San Francisco 1996.
  • Malcolm N., Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir, Oxford 2001.
  • Wittgenstein L., Traktat logiczno-fi lozofi czny, tłum. B. Wolniewicz, Warszawa 2007.

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki
1402413

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_14746_fc_2020_17_3
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