Reviews for Sounds of Valley Streams: Enlightenment in Dogen's Zen Translation of Nine Essays from Shobogenzo

The average rating for Sounds of Valley Streams: Enlightenment in Dogen's Zen Translation of Nine Essays from Shobogenzo based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-12-31 00:00:00 Jordan Damiani Beautiful translations of some challenging texts here. Reading them created a feeling of powerful gravity in my mind. There's a lot to think about here. My only problem with this book was the edit. Some of the scholarly essays at the start were a little redundant and they did give me some preconceptions of the source material that may have been misleading. I should have skipped ahead and grappled with Dogen's writing before reading what Cook had to say about them in the beginning. That said, one thing that could have made this experience better would have been footnotes on certain translated expressions that explained a bit about why the translation decisions were made. There's an extensive list of notes in the back, but this material requires so much focus that I found that consistently flipping back and forth was a detraction.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-02-21 00:00:00 Edmund Tyree Interesting stories and anecdotes, but I personally didn't resonate with them.