GUDO NISHIJIMA'S BOOKS
Here are links to the Amazon listings of Gudo Nishijima Roshi's books. You can click on these links to go directly to Amazon's website and order the books.

TO MEET THE REAL DRAGON
This is an edited collection of lectures delivered in the early 1980's. It offers the simplest most "user-friendly" introduction to Nishijima's philosophy. Nishijima's American student Jeff Bailey did an excellent job of conveying Nishijima's ideas in colloquial English. A new chapter has been added this edition to make the work more up-to-date.



SHOBOGENZO (Dogen Sangha Books edition)
This remains the only complete edition of Master Dogen's 13th century masterwork Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) available in English. Nishijima and his student Chodo Cross strove to present an English edition that was as close as possible to the original Japanese. Copious footnotes have been added to help readers understand the more difficult passages and trace Dogen's many references to older Buddhist writings. The Dogen Sangha Books editions are in trade paperback format. These are exactly the same as the former Windbell Press editions published in the 1990's (and now out of print) except that the books themselves are slightly larger.

SHOBOGENZO BOOK 1 (Dogen Sangha Books edition)
 SHOBOGENZO BOOK 2 (Dogen Sangha Books edition)
 SHOBOGENZO BOOK 3 (Dogen Sangha Books edition)
 SHOBOGENZO BOOK 4 (Dogen Sangha Books edition)

SHOBOGENZO (Numata Press edition)
The contents of this edition are essentially the same as the Dogen Sangha edition. But the Numata Press edition is a handsome and durable hardback version. Numata Press has also eleminated the use of Chinese and Japanese characters found in the Dogen Sangha Books edition. This change makes the work a bit easier to follow for those unfamiliar with Japanese or Chinese. Numata Press editions of books 3 and 4 are forthcoming soon.
SHOBOGENZO BOOK 1 (Numata Press edition)
 SHOBOGENZO BOOK 2 (Numata Press edition)

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