Zazen shin (Japanese: 坐禪箴), rendered in English as the Acupuncture Needle of Zazen, Lancet of Zazen, or Needle for Zazen, is a book of the Shōbōgenzō by the 13th century Sōtō Zen monk Eihei Dōgen. It was written on the 19th of April in 1242 at Dōgen's monastery Kōshōhōrin-ji in Kyoto.[1] The book appears as the 12th book in the 75 fascicle version of the Shōbōgenzō, and it is ordered 27th in the later chronological 95 fascicle Honzan editions.[2] The title Zazen shin refers to a poem of the same title written by Hongzhi Zhengjue. Hongzhi's poem is quoted verbatim in Dōgen's Zazen shin and also presented again in modified form later in the text.[1]
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- ^ a b Nishijima, Gudo; Cross, Chodo (1994), Master Dogen's Shōbōgenzō, vol. 2, Dogen Sangha, pp. 115–134, ISBN 1-4196-3820-3
- ^ Heine, Steven (2012), Dōgen: Textual and Historical Studies, Oxford University Press, p. 40, ISBN 978-0-19-975447-2
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