Medieval · 1200–1253
Who influenced Dōgen?
Influences
Zen master of just sitting: practice and enlightenment are one, time is being.
Dōgen was influenced by Nagarjuna. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Dōgen?
Dōgen was first ordained in the Tendai school in Kyoto but, dissatisfied, went to China and trained for four years under the Chan master Rujing. Back in Japan he promoted zazen, sitting meditation, broke with Tendai and founded the Sōtō school of Zen, with its head temple Eihei-ji.
His main work is the Shōbōgenzō, the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye, and he also wrote the first Japanese Zen monastic code and poetry. His writings remain central to Sōtō Zen today.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Dōgen?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Nagarjuna c. 150–250
Contemporaries of Dōgen
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Dōgen, with no direct line between them.
- Albertus Magnus c. 1200–1280
- Henry of Ghent c. 1217–1293
- Roger Bacon c. 1219–1292
- Bonaventure 1221–1274
- Thomas Aquinas 1225–1274
- Robert Grosseteste c. 1175–1253
Dōgen by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 1
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 43 — #45 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Schools and lineages
- Non-Western: Confucius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Mencius, Xunzi, Nagarjuna, Adi Shankara, Ramanuja, Dōgen, Kitarō Nishida, Muhammad Iqbal
Questions about Dōgen
- Who influenced Dōgen?
- Nagarjuna.
- Who did Dōgen influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Dōgen.
- When did Dōgen live?
- 1200–1253. The map files Dōgen under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Dōgen card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Dōgen in 43 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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