Daigo (Zen)

Daigo, or daigo tettei, is a Japanese term used within Zen Buddhism which usually denotes a "[g]reat realization or enlightenment."^[1] Moreover, "[t]raditionally, daigo is final, absolute enlightenment, contrasted to experiences of glimpsing enlightenment, shōgo."^[1] According to Dōgen in a fascicle of the Shobogenzo titled Daigo,^[2] the master Dōgen writes that when practitioners of Zen attain daigo they have risen above the discrimination between delusion and enlightenment.^[3] Author J.P. Williams writes, "In contrast, in SG Daigo, the apparently positive 'great enlightenment' is more clearly an extension of the meaning of fugo, no-enlightenment, than 'enlightenment.'^[4]

See also

• Kenshō
• Mushi dokugo
• Satori

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community, 209
2. ^ Shaner, 132
3. ^ The Wholehearted Way, 82
4. ^ Williams, 171

References

• Leighton, Taigen Dan; Okumura, Shohaku; Dogen (1996). Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community a Translation of the Eihei Shingi. State University of New York Press. ISBN 0585046239. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42854986&referer=brief_results. 
• Shaner, David Edward (1985). The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Perspective of Kūkai and Dōgen. State University of New York Press. ISBN 0887060617. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59254799&referer=brief_results. 
• Uchiyama, Kosho; Leighton, Taigen Dan; Okumura, Shohaku; Dogen (1997). The Wholehearted Way: A Translation of Eihei Dogen's Bendowa. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 080483105X. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38190728&referer=brief_results. 
• Williams, J. P. (2000). Denying Divinity: Apophasis in the Patristic Christian and Soto Zen Buddhist. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198269994. http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=0198269994&=Search&qt=owc_search.