Dogen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Koroku

Eihei Dōgen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Sōtō school of Zen, is renowned as one of the world's most remarkable religious thinkers. As Shakespeare does with English, Dōgen utterly transforms the language of Zen, using it in novel and extraordinarily beautiful ways to point to everything important in the religious life.

Dōgen is known for two major works. The first work, the massive Shōbōgenzō ("Treasury of the True Dharma Eye"), represents his early teachings and exists in many English translations; the second work, the Eihei Kōroku, is a collection of all his later teachings, including short formal discourses to the monks training at his temple, longer informal talks, and kōans with his commentaries, as well as short appreciatory verses on various topics. The Shōbōgenzō has received enormous attention in Western Zen and Western Zen literature, and with the publication of this watershed volume, the Eihei Kōroku is now rising to commensurate stature. Dōgen's Extensive Record is the first-ever complete translation of this monumental work into English-a classic that belongs in the library of any student of Zen and any scholar of world religion.

This edition also includes an extensive index and concordance of names.