Namaste!
Hallo sudhana,
vielen Dank für diesen sehr lehr- und aufschlussreichen Text über Dôgen Zenji!
Beachtlich für mich vor allem:
Sudhana:Recently, a document with 16-article precepts was found in Shorenin, a Tendai temple in Kyoto, so that there is some possibility that Dōgen’s approach to having 16 articles is based on one of the Tendai precepts styles. It is also possible to speculate that in non-Zen Buddhist schools as well as Tendai in Japan there were different combinations, including the ten-article major precepts along with such expressions of devotion as the three refuges, the three pure precepts, and ritual repentances, an arrangement which is very close to Dōgen’s approach. 8 If the 48-article minor precepts were eliminated, it may be that these were very general, open-ended exhortations for compassionate attitudes rather than rules governing behavior in the strict sense; they would therefore have been easily dispensable once the six articles of the refuges and pure precepts were accepted. However, it is doubtful that these combinations would have been considered, before Dōgen, to be monkmaking in the sense of conferring legitimacy to a new member of the monastic community.[...]
Ob die 16 Gelübde nun Dôgens eigene Zusammenstellung sind oder ob er sie aus der Tendai Shû übernommen hat (diese Möglichkeiten halte ich für die wahrscheinlicheren), oder ob er sie gar von seinem chinesischen Meister übernommen hat (was ich nach dem was sudhana zitiert hat eher unwahrscheinlich finde), kann letztlich für uns Laien nicht allzu bedeutsam sein.
Es gilt aber festzustellen, dass aus Dôgens Sicht diese 16 Gelübde ausreichend waren, denke ich.
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Benkei
Namu-Shakamuni-Butsu