School · 774 CE–1253 CE
Japanese Buddhist philosophy
Japanese Buddhist philosophy is Buddhist philosophical traditions in Japan, including debates about awakening, language, practice, and institutional authority.
Shared questions
- How do practice, doctrine, and lineage relate to awakening?
Internal disagreements
- Whether awakening is gradual or sudden, accessible to all, and best articulated through scholastic analysis, ritual, meditation, or paradox.
Key texts
- Shōbōgenzō — Dōgen's collection exists in several recensions of different lengths, and its arrangement is editorial.
- Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence (Sokushin jōbutsu gi) — Kūkai's argument that buddhahood is realised in the body, not after it.