2 of Brad Warner's Radical but Reverent Paraphrasing of Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye In Japan in 1253, one of the great thinkers of his time died -- and the world barely noticed.
That man was the Zen monk Eihei Dogen.
For centuries his main work, Shobogenzo , languished in obscurity, locked away in remote monasteries until scholars rediscovered it in the twentieth century.
What took so long? In Brad Warner's view, Dogen was too ahead of his time to .