正法眼藏

Readings

Pinyin: Zhèngfǎyǎn zàng

Wade-Giles: Cheng-fa-yen tsang

Hangul: 정법안장

Korean MC: Jeongbeob-an jang

Korean MR: Chŏngbŏb'an chang

Katakana: ショウボウゲンゾウ

Hepburn: Shōbōgenzō

Chánh pháp nhãn tạng

treasury of the true eye of the dharma

• The Chan school's distinctive teaching that lies outside words and letters. 〔六祖壇經 T 2008.48.358a18〕 [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura,JEBD, Yokoi,Iwanami]
• The title of a kōan collection entitled Treasury of the True Eye of the Dharma (Zheng fayan zang), compiled around 1141 by the eminent Chan master Dahui Zonggao 大慧宗杲 (1089–1163). [resp. Griffith Foulk]
• 95 fasc.; by the Japanese Sōtō 曹洞 monk Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄; T 2582. Dōgen, in keeping with the precedent established in Song China, assembled a collection of three hundred kōans with the same title, Treasury of the True Eye of the Dharma (Shōbōgenzō). Modern scholars refer to that collection, which is devoid of any commentary by Dōgen himself, as the "Shōbōgenzō in Chinese characters" (Shinji Shōbōgenzō 眞字正法眼藏) or "Shōbōgenzō in three hundred cases" (Shōbōgenzō sanbyaku soku 正法眼藏三百則); they use that nomenclature to distinguish the work from Dōgen's famous collection of essays, written in classical Japanese, that bears the same title.

  The title of Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō, which exists in a several different recensions, has been variously rendered into English as: The Eye and Treasury of the True Dharma; Eye Storehouse of the True Dharma; Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma; Right-Dharma-Eye Treasury; Treasury of the True Dharma Eye; and Treasury of the True Dharma-Eye. In the view of Foulk, only the last of these translations is correct and unambiguous in its recognition that the adjective "true" 正 modifies the nominal phrase "dharma-eye" 法眼. This is clear from the fact that, in the story of the transmission to Mahākāśyapa that occurs in the Jingde Record (Jingde chuandeng lu 景德傳燈錄) and other traditional histories, the expression "treasury of the true eye of the dharma" is used interchangeably with "pure eye of the dharma" 淸淨法眼. The phrase "eye of the dharma" remains constant in both cases, which shows that the adjectives "pure" 淸淨 and "true" 正 modify the word "eye" 眼, not the word "dharma" 法.

  Arranged into sections under various topic headings such as One Bright Pearl and Being-Time wherein the author addresses various Buddhist topics, largely in the context of Chinese Chan literature. Having been translated into Western languages several times, this work has become one of the most popular in the Western Zen movement.

  [resp. Griffith Foulk]
• The chapter headings of the 75-fascicle version of the Shōbōgenzō are as follows:
  • Genjōkōan 現成公案
  • Makahannya haramitsu ("Mahāprajñāpāramitā")) 摩訶般若波羅蜜
  • Busshō ("Buddha-nature") 佛性
  • Shinshin gakudō 身心學道
  • Sokushin ze butsu ("This mind is in itself buddha") 卽心是佛
  • Gyōbutsu igi 行佛威儀
  • Ikka myōju (One Bright Pearl) 一顆明珠
  • Shin fukatoku ("Mind is Unobtainable")心不可得
  • Kobusshin ("Mind of an old Buddha") 古佛心
  • Daigo ("Great enlightenment") 大悟
  • Zazengi (Instructions for Zazen) 坐禪儀
  • Zazen shin 坐禪箴
  • Kaiin sanmai ("Ocean seal samādhi" ) 海印三昧
  • Kūge ("Sky-flowers" ) 空華
  • Kōmyō ("Radiance") 光明
  • Gyōji ("Continual practice") 行持
  • Inmo ("In that way...") 恁麼
  • Kan'non ("Avalokitêśvara") 觀音
  • Ko kyō ("The Ancient mirror") 古鏡
  • Uji ("Being-Time") 有時
  • Juki ("Assurance (of future enlightenment)") 授記
  • Zenki ("All faculties") 全機
  • Tsuki 都機
  • Gabyō ("Depicted biscuits") 畫餠
  • Keishō sanshiki 谿聲山色
  • Bukkōjōji 佛向上事
  • Muchū setsumu 夢中說夢
  • Raihai tokuzui 禮拜得髓
  • Sansui kyō 山水經
  • Kankyō ("Reading and studying the scriptures") 看經
  • Shoaku makusa ("Not doing evil") 諸惡莫作
  • Denne ("Transmission of the robe") 傳衣
  • Dōtoku ("Attaining the Way") 道得
  • Bukkyō ("Buddhism") 佛教
  • Jinzū ("Supernormal cognition") 神通
  • Arakan ("Arhat") 阿羅漢
  • Shunshū ("Spring and autumn") 春秋
  • Kattō ("Arrowroot vines and wisteria vines") 葛藤
  • Jisho 嗣書
  • Hakujushi 栢樹子
  • Sangai yuishin ("Three realms are only mind") 三界唯心
  • Sesshin sessshō 說心說性
  • Shohō jissō ("Real character of all dharmas") 諸法實相
  • Butsudō ("Buddha-way") 佛道
  • Mitsugo ("Esoteric instruction") 密語
  • Mujō seppō ("Teaching of the Dharma from the Insentient") 無情說法
  • Bukkyō ("Buddhist Sutras") 佛經
  • Hosshō ("Dharma Nature") 法性
  • Darani ("Dhāraṇī") 陀羅尼
  • Senmen ("Washing the Face")洗面
  • Menju ("Personal Instruction") 面授
  • Busso ("Buddhas and Patriarchs") 佛祖
  • Maike ("Plum Blossoms")梅花
  • Senjō ("Cleaning after Defecation") 洗淨
  • Jippō ("Ten Directions") 十方
  • Kenbutsu ("Seeing the Buddha") 見佛
  • Hensan 遍參
  • Gensei 眼睛
  • Ka jō ("Ordinary") 家常
  • Sanjūshichihon bodaibun hō 三十七品菩提分法
  • Ryūgin (Roar of the Dragon) 龍吟
  • Soshisairaii 祖師西來意
  • Hotsu bodai shin ("Arousing the intention to Achieve Enlightenment") 發菩提心
  • Udon ge ("Udumbara Flower") 優曇華
  • Nyorai zenshin 如來全身
  • Zanmai ō zanmai ("King of Samādhis") 三昧王三昧
  • Ten bōrin ("Turning the wheel of the dharma") 轉法輪
  • Dai shugyō 大修行
  • Jishōsanmai 自證三昧
  • Kokū ("Space") 虛空
  • Hatsū ("Almsbowl") 鉢盂
  • Ango ("Retreat") 安居
  • Tashin zū ("Supernatural ability to read the minds of others") 他心通
  • Ōsakusendaba 王索仙陀婆
  • Shukke ("Renouncing the secular life") 出家

  Some partial and complete English translations of this text:

  CarlBielefeldtDōgen's Shōbōgenzō SansuikyōThe Mountain-SpiritWoodstock, NYOverlook Press1979

  Shōbōgenzō: Zen EssaysThomasClearyHonoluluUniversity of Hawaii Press1986

  How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō, Including Ten Newly Translated EssaysFrancis HaroldCookLos AngelesCenter Publications1978

  Sounds of Valley Streams: Enlightenment in Dōgen's Zen: Translation of Nine Essays from ShōbōgenzōFrancis HaroldCookAlbany, NYState Univ. of New York Pr.1989

  Flowers of Emptiness: Selections from Dōgen's ShōbōgenzōHee-JinKimLewiston, N.Y.Edward Mellan Press1985

  A Primer of Sōtō Zen: A Translation of Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō ZuimonkiReihōMasunagaHonoluluUniversity of Hawai`i Press1975

  Shōbōgenzō: The True Dharma-Eye TreasuryGudōNishijimaChodoCrossBerkeley, Calif.Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research2007BDK English Tripiṭaka Series

  KōsenNishiyamaShōbōgenzō. The Eye and Treasury of the True LawTokyoNakayama shobō1975

  Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki: Sayings of Eihei Dōgen ZenjiShohakuOkumuraKyotoKyoto Sōtō Zen Center1987

  Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dōgen's ShōbōgenzōKazuakiTanahashiShambhala Publications, Incorporated2013

  The ShōbōgenzōYūhōYokoiTokyoSankibō Buddhist Bookstore1986

  [resp. Charles Muller]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 541

Bulgyo sajeon, 778a

Chūgoku bukkyōshi jiten (Kamata), 208

Record of Linji: Rinzairoku (Yanagida), 273-1

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 580a

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 444

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki), 49, 359, 377, 458

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 292b/324

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 678

Zen Dust (Sasaki), 198, 255, 347, 396

Zen Dust (Sasaki), 397, 435

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 16-P104, 17-P193, 18-P40

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 704c

Fo Guang Dictionary, 1993

Ding Fubao, {Digital Version}

Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono), ⑤323a*/⑤323b*/⑤324a/⑤324a*/⑫324b/⑫324b*/⑫324c

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)2766a

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 790-3*790-2

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