DEGREESTDogen, Uji / Etre-Temps / Being-Time: DEGREESAtranslated by Eido Shimano Roshi and Charles Vacher DEGREESDEnglish summary: In the year 1200, Dogen was born in Fukakusa outside Kyoto in a region called Uji. In 1233, a few years after a journey to China, he returned to his birthplace and established Kosho Horin-ji, the first temple in Japan to be dedicated exclusively to the practice of Soto Zen Buddhism. It is here that he began to write a...