In 1217, two years after the death of contemporary Zen Buddhist Myōan Eisai, Dōgen went to study at Kennin-ji Temple ( 建仁寺 ), under Eisai's successor, Myōzen ( 明全 ).

In China, Dōgen first went to the leading Chan monasteries in Zhèjiāng province.

At some later point, Dōgen became a low-ranking monk on Mount Hiei, the headquarters of the Tendai school of Buddhism.

In the face of this tension, Dōgen left the Tendai dominion of Kyōto in 1230, settling instead in an abandoned temple in what is today the city of Uji, south of Kyōto.

Dōgen accepted because of the ongoing tension with the Tendai community, and the growing competition of the Rinzai-school.

Nichiren, Hōnen, Shinran, and Dōgen — all famous thinkers in non-Tendai schools of Japanese Buddhism — were all initially trained as Tendai monks.

In 1227 Dōgen Zenji, a former Tendai student, studied Caodong Buddhism, and returned to Japan to establish the Sōtō sect.

Dōgen had received Dharma transmission from Tiantong Rujing at Qìngdé Temple, where Hongzhi Zhengjue once was abbot.

While the construction work was going on, Dōgen would live and teach at Yoshimine-dera Temple ( Kippō-ji, 吉峯寺 ), which is located close to Daibutsu-ji.

The sermons, lectures, sayings and poetry were compiled shortly after Dōgen ’ s death by his main disciples, Koun Ejō ( 孤雲懐奘, 1198 – 1280 ), Senne and Gien.

* Fukan-zazengi ( General Advice on the Principles of Zazen ), one volume ; probably written immediately after Dōgen ’ s return from China in 1227

Dirck Vorenkamp, a professor of religious studies, argued in his paper " B-Series Temporal Order in Dogen's Theory of Time " that the Zen Buddhist teacher Dōgen presented views on time that contained all the main elements of McTaggart's B-series view of time ( which denies any objective present ), although he noted that some of Dōgen reasoning also contained A-Series notions, which Vorenkamp argued may indicated some inconsistency in Dōgen's thinking.

Dōgen was succeeded around 1236 by his disciple Koun Ejō ( 1198 – 1280 ), who originally was a member of the Daruma school of Nōnin, but joined Dogen in 1229.

* Translation with Norman Waddell: Dōgen, The Heart of Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō ( SUNY 2002 ), from work published in The Eastern Buddhist ( Kyoto 1971-1976 ), as edited by D. T. Suzuki.

In 1247, the newly installed shōgun's regent, Hōjō Tokiyori, invited Dōgen to come to Kamakura to teach him.

The ashes of Dōgen and a memorial to him are in the Joyoden ( the Founder's hall ) at Eihei-ji.

For Dōgen, the practice of zazen and the experience of enlightenment were one and the same.

Indeed the fact that Dōgen styled his effort " Shōbō genzō " suggests that he had as his model a similar compilation of the same title by the most famous of Sung masters, Ta-Hui Tsung-kao.

As he found no answer to his question at Mount Hiei, and as he was disillusioned by the internal politics and need for social prominence for advancement, Dōgen left to seek an answer from other Buddhist masters.

* 1253 – September 22 – Dōgen Zenji, founder of the Sōtō school of Zen Buddhism in Japan and author of the Shōbōgenzō and other important works ( b. 1200 )

Dōgen Zenji ( 道元禅師 ; also Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄, or Eihei Dōgen 永平道元, or Koso Joyo Daishi ) ( 19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253 ) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Kyōto.

Dōgen is known for his extensive writing including the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma or Shōbōgenzō, a collection of ninety-five fascicles concerning Buddhist practice and enlightenment.

Dōgen probably was born into a noble family, though as an illegitimate child of Minamoto Michitomo, who served in the imperial court as a high-ranking.

His mother is said to have died when Dōgen was age 7.

In 1223, Dōgen and Myōzen undertook the dangerous passage across the East China Sea to China to study in Jing-de-si ( Ching-te-ssu, 景德寺 ) monastery as Eisai had once done.

Though Dōgen assiduously studied the kōans, he became disenchanted with the heavy emphasis laid upon them, and wondered why the sutras were not studied more.

At one point, owing to this disenchantment, Dōgen even refused Dharma transmission from a teacher.

Rujing was reputed to have a style of Chan that was different from the other masters whom Dōgen had thus far encountered.

Myōzen died shortly after Dōgen arrived at Mount Tiantong.

Dōgen watching the moon.

Dōgen returned to Japan in 1227 or 1228, going back to stay at Kennin-ji, where he had trained previously.

In 1233, Dōgen founded the Kannon-dōri-in in Uji as a small center of practice.

In 1246, Dōgen renamed Daibutsu-ji, calling it Eihei-ji.

Dōgen spent the remainder of his life teaching and writing at Eihei-ji.

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A plan to visit Scarborough fell through, and the sisters went to York, where Anne showed her sister York Minster.

President Charles de Gaulle went to Washington to attend the state funeral, and witnessed Jacqueline Kennedy lighting the eternal flame that had been inspired by her visit to France.

In 1895, the Amir found himself unable, by reason of ill-health, to accept an invitation from Queen Victoria to visit England ; but his second son Nasrullah Khan went instead.

In 1854, when she was eighteen, Elizabeth and her sister went on a long visit to their school friends, Jane and Anne Crow, in Gateshead.

There followed a glamorous honeymoon tour of European courts and America which famously included a visit to Niagara Falls ( because " all honeymooners went there ").

In 1747 Algarotti went back to Potsdam and became court chamberlain, but did not leave to visit the archeological diggings at Herculaneum.

In 1599 he went for a two year visit to Rome for musical, rather than religious reasons, although he had taken holy orders before his appointment under the Fuggers.

He eventually reached England, but soon went on a visit to Denmark to attend a conference on weaponry at the Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen, during which he personally gave a talk on the kris.

Following his Washington visit Holt went on to London and in a speech there given on 7 July he was sharply critical of the UK, France and other U. S. allies that had refused to commit troops to the Vietnam War.

Louis dispatched another envoy to the Mongol court, the Franciscan William of Rubruck, who went to visit the Great Khan Möngke Khan in Mongolia.

He went to Leipzig and Freiberg to visit Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann and his brother the mathematician August Naumann.

He established Canadian diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, before the United States did, and went on an official visit to Beijing.

His reconciliation with Claudette occurred when she went to visit him while he was recuperating from the accident.

Lacy's first visit to Europe came in 1965, with a visit to Copenhagen in the company of Kenny Drew ; he went to Italy and formed a quartet with Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava and the South African musicians Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo ( their visit to Buenos Aires is documented on The Forest and the Zoo, ESP, 1967 ).

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Turunen said that the visit went " smoothly " and that Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov offered a " warm reception.

De Gaulle went off to visit French troops in Germany to check on their loyalty.

Williams refused to visit him, and the following day went out for lunch and then to the cinema.

In the spring of 1809 Oehlenschläger went to Rome to visit Bertel Thorvaldsen, and in his house wrote his tragedy of Correggio.

" Nichols never seriously considered her for the part, preferring to cast a younger woman ( Anne Bancroft was 36 while Gardner was 45 ), but he did visit her hotel, where he later recounted that " she sat at a little French desk with a telephone, she went through every movie star cliché.