Sounds of Valley Streams: Enlightenment in Dōgen's Zen Translation of Nine Essays from Shōbōgenzō

by Francis Harold Cook

Book Overview

Sounds of Valley Streams is a study of Zen Buddhist enlightenment in nine chapters of Shōbōgenzō Dōgen. Francis H. Cook has translated the nine chapters and has preceded them with four chapters of discussion. These essays show Dōgen bringing his religious intensity, philosophical depth, and poetic power to bear on a number of different facets of enlightenment. Using striking images and poetical expressions such as "one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088706924X
• ISBN13: 9780887069246
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"