The Eastern Buddhist carries articles on all aspects of Buddhism as well as English translations of classical Buddhist texts and works by modern Buddhist thinkers. This unique journal was begun in ...

Dōgen refused to accept any metaphysical interpretation of Buddha-nature as some kind of entitive being or essential potentiality, yet he continued to engage the doctrine of Buddha Nature in his ...

I’ll explain. I just finished reading Brad Warner’s 300-page “Don’t Be A Jerk” (2016), a commentary on Eihei Dōgen (1200–1253), and his four-volume work “Shōbōgenzō.” Reading anything by Zen Buddhists ...

Fukui Prefecture is associated with dinosaurs and Zen, thanks to numerous fossil discoveries and a major temple founded by the Buddhist priest Dōgen. Fukui Prefecture lies to the west edge of the ...