Bielefeldt, C.

Carl Bielefeldt

Associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is a specialist on early Japanese Zen whose major work to date is Dōgen's Manuals of Zen Meditation, which was corecipient of the 1990 Hiromi Arisawa Memorial Award from the Association of American University Presses with the Japan Foundation.

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Record of the Transmission of Illumination by the Great Ancestor, Zen Master Keizan

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The Denkōroku (Record of the Transmission of Illumination), together with Dogen Zenji's Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye), is one of the fundamental texts of the Soto School. It is an exceptional record of the Zen ancestors that begins with Sakyamuni Buddha, extends through twenty-eight generations in India and twenty-three generations in China, and reaches to Dogen Zenji and Ejo Zenji. It provides instruction, in teisho format, about the causes and conditions whereby each awakened to the Way that was individually transmitted by the one Buddha and fifty-two ancestors. (Source: Sotozen.com)

Foulk, Griffith T., ed. Record of the Transmission of Illumination by the Great Ancestor, Zen Master Keizan. 2 vols. Tokyo: The Administrative Headquarters of Sōtō Zen Buddhism = Sōtōshū Shūmuchō, 2017–2018.

Foulk, Griffith T., ed. Record of the Transmission of Illumination by the Great Ancestor, Zen Master Keizan. 2 vols. Tokyo: The Administrative Headquarters of Sōtō Zen Buddhism = Sōtōshū Shūmuchō, 2017–2018.;Record of the Transmission of Illumination by the Great Ancestor, Zen Master Keizan;History;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Japanese Buddhism;;;;;;; William Bodiford;T. Griffith Foulk;Sarah J. Horton;John R. McRae;Record of the Transmission of Illumination by the Great Ancestor, Zen Master Keizan;Keizan