Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree: Giun's Verse Comments on Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye

by Steven Heine

This book provides a translation and critical bilingual edition on the Verse Comments on the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. The Verse Comments by Giun (1253-1333), the fifth abbot of Eiheiji temple, is an important early medieval Japanese commentary on the 60-chapter edition of the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shobogenzo), one of the main versions of the masterwork written by Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), the founder of the Soto Zen sect in Japan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190941340
• ISBN13: 9780190941345
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.4"