A major work of
D
gen
, and one of the supreme works of Japanese Zen. It is a vast and difficult work, written and compiled during the last decade of his life. Dogen intended 100 books but completed only 92–75 unrevised, 12 revised, and an appendix of 5. Much of it, including the title, is untranslatable.
A record of brief talks, comments, and exhortations of
D
gen
. It was compiled between 1235 and 1237, and was first published in 1651. The standard (
rufubon
) text was established in 1769. It contains basic instruction.