The True Dharma Eye.(The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans )(Brief article)(Book review)

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The True Dharma Eye

Zen Master Dogen,

John Daido Loori, commentary and verse

Shambhala Publications, Inc.

300 Massachusetts Av, Boston MA 02115

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1590302427 $39.95 1-800-733-3000

The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans is a compilation of koans by the thirteenth-century Zen Buddhism master Eihei Dogen. First published in Japan in 1766, this new version features extensive commentary and interpretation for each koan by the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery of Mount Tremper, New York, John Daido Loori Roshi. For ...

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