ABSTRACT
The Hōkyō-ki, the journal Dogen kept during his study in Sung China, was discovered after his death and was copied in the abbot’s quarters of Eihei-ji by his closest disciple, Ejō, in the year of Dogen’s death, 1253. It records Ju-ching’s instructions to Dogen at T’ien-t’ung Mountain from their initial encounter in the first year of Pao-ch’ing (1225) to the third year of the same era (1227), when Dogen returned to Japan. Hence, the title is Hōkyō-ki (Ch. Pao-ch’ing chi), or the Record of the Pao-ch’ing Era.
