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| Original title | 正法眼藏 |
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| Publication place | China |
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Zhengfa Yanzang (Hànyǔ Pīnyīn: Zhèngfǎ Yǎnzàng;Rōmaji: Shōbōgenzō), known in English as theTreasury of the Correct Dharma Eye or by the Japanese reading of its title,Shōbōgenzō, is a collection ofkōans compiled byDahui Zonggao. Dahui was a famous popularizer ofkōans during theSong dynasty in China. Dahui's collection is composed of three scrolls prefaced by three short introductory pieces. Dahui's work uses the same Chinese characters for its title as the now well knownShōbōgenzō written by the Japanese monkEihei Dōgen in the thirteenth century. Upon arriving in China, Dōgen first studied underWuji Lepai, a disciple of Dahui, which is where he probably came into contact with Dahui'sZhengfa Yanzang. In his bookDogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation, the modern scholarCarl Bielefeldt acknowledges that Dōgen likely took the title from Dahui for his ownkōan collection, theShinji Shōbōgenzō, and kept it for his later and now most well-known work, theKana Shōbōgenzō (usually referred to simply as "the Shōbōgenzō"):
Indeed the fact that Dōgen styled his effort "Shōbō genzō" suggests that he had as his model a similar compilation of the same title by the most famous of Sung masters, Ta-Hui Tsung-kao Dahui Zonggao.[1]
