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Shōbōgenzō by Dōgen, the famous Japanese Buddhist monk. There are two famous treatises with the same name—Zheng fa yan zang/Shōbōgenzō—in the history of Chan/Zen Bud-dhism. One is by Dahui Zonggao 大慧宗 杲 (089–63), an eminent Chinese monk of Linji tradition in the Song period, and the second is by Kigen Dōgen 希玄道元 (200–253), the founder of the Japanese Sōtō tradition in the Kamakura period. Of these two great Zen masters, one was Chinese and the other Japanese. Their lives were separated by about a hundred years, and they belonged to different branches of Zen, but these two treatises with the same name both appeared on the scene as out-standing treatises in the history of Buddhism in China and Japan. This, of course, is not just a matter of historical coincidence; there are significant intellectual inter-relationships between the two works. Zen master Dahui was an important figure in the Yangqi 楊 岐 branch of the Linji school, known for his eloquence and his efforts in disseminating the use of koans in Chan/Zen Buddhism, and his method is known as Kanhua-Chan/Zen 看話禅. Thi