New to Master Dogen? Start Here:

• Who Was Eihei Dogen? – Lion’s Roar
• The Greatest Philosopher You’ve Never Heard Of – NPR
• The Man Who Redefined Zen – Dr. Steven Heine
• Dogen: His Life, Religion, and Poetry – Dr. Steven Heine
• Dogen’s Instructions for Zazen – Eihei Dogen
• Just Wholeheartedly Sit – Kazuaki Tanahashi
• The Naked Nature of Time – Dainin Katagiri Roshi

Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo, Translated by Gudo Nishijima and Chodo Cross, is available in PDF format:

• Master Dōgen’s Shobogenzo – Book 1
• Master Dōgen’s Shobogenzo – Book 2
• Master Dōgen’s Shobogenzo – Book 3
• Master Dōgen’s Shobogenzo – Book 4

Shasta Abbey offers translations, including the complete Shobogenzo, and related teachings in PDF format:

• Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye)
• Rules for Meditation
• On Receiving the Precepts
• Zen is Eternal Life – Houn Jiyu-Kennett

Ven. Anzan Hoshin roshi and Yasuda Joshu Dainen roshi of White Wind Zen Community have translated several of Master Dōgen’s works:

• Bendowa: A Talk on Exerting the Way
• Bukkyo: The Buddha’s Sutras
• Fukanzazengi: How Everyone Can Sit
• Fushukuhanpo: How to Use Your Bowls
• Gabyo: Painted Rice Cakes
• Genjokoan: The Question of Our Lives
• Jippo: The Ten Directions
• Kuge: Flowers of Space
• Makahannyaharamitsu: Vast Perfect Knowing
• Raihai Tokuzui: Bowing and Acquiring the Essence
• Shoaku makusa: Not Doing Wrong Action
• Shoji: Birth and Death 生死
• Tenzo kyokun: Instructions for the Tenzo
• Zanmai-O-Zanmai: The Samadhi That is Sovereign of Samadhis
• Zazengi: How to Sit
• Zenki: Complete Activity 全機

Dogen Sangha translations and articles:

• Introduction to Buddhism and The Practice of Zazen – Eido Michael Luetchford
• The Concept of Now in Dogen’s Philosophy – Eido Michael Luetchford

Various Essays and Articles:

• Understanding the Shobogenzo – Gudo Nishijima
• Rigorous, Pious, and Poetic: Comparing the different English translations of Shobogenzo – Norman Fischer
• Dogen and Koans – Roshi John Daido Loori
• Being Time: Introduction to Approaching the Study of Dogen – Shinshu Roberts
• Forum: Understanding Dogen – Lion’s Roar
• Remembering Dogen’s Death – Dr. Steven Heine