Sanshin Platinum Celebration | Adding Beauty to Brocade Book Launch and Dogen Institute Presentation

Sanshin Platinum Celebration | Adding Beauty to Brocade Book Launch and Dogen Institute Presentation

Saturday afternoon's events will include the introduction of our new book, Adding Beauty to Brocade, a series of essays by Sanshin Network authors in response to Dogen's Bodaisatta Shishobo. Facilitated by Dogen Institute Director David Thompson, the presentation will include readings from three of the 18 authors.

The authors of this book are all first or second generation dharma descendants of Sanshin’s founder, Shohaku Okumura, and our chapters all respond in some way to his opening teachings about the four embracing actions: giving, loving speech, beneficial action and identity action. Some of us live the lives of householders and are holding down jobs and raising families in addition to carrying out our dharma teaching. Others are engaged in some form of residential practice, living in a temple and spending all day every day facilitating the practice of our sanghas and ourselves. We come from South America, North America, Europe and Japan and speak a variety of languages…
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In this volume we offer our various perspectives on the teachings found in the Bodaisatta Shishobo (Four Embracing Actions of the Bodhisattva) fascicle of Dōgen Zenji’s Shobogenzo….Our writing comes from our day-to-day experiences of practice and speaks to readers as they also navigate this one unified reality moment by moment. ​ Hoko Karnegis – from the preface.

The official publication date of Adding Beauty to Brocade is Saturday, June 24 to coincide with our Platinum Celebration. The book will be available for distribution through the below channels after that date. Print copies will be available for sale on-site during the Platinum event. The print copy of this book may also be ordered through online resellers, such as Bookshop.org. Your local bookseller may also be willing to special order copies of the book for you. Print copies retail for $20.00 USD. An e-book version will be available on the Dōgen Institute’s podia site. The e-book version is provided as a non-printable PDF, and retails for $16.99 USD.

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