7. This theory is advanced eloquently in Collcutt, "Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan." In later years the Ch'an sect in China itself actually entered a phase of decadence, with the inclusion of esoteric rites and an ecumenical movement that advocated the chanting of the nembutsu by Ch'anists--some of whom claimed there was great similarity between the psychological aspects of this mechanical chant and those of the koan. 8. Accounts of Eisai's life may be found in Dumoulin, History of Zen Buddhism; and in Collcutt, "Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan." 9. See Collcutt, "Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan." 10. See Saunders, Buddhism in Japan, p. 221. 11. Translated in Wm. Theodore de Bary, ed. Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 1 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958), pp. 236- 37. 12. Ibid., p. 237. 13. De Bary, Sources of Japanese Tradition, pp. 239-40. 14. Again the best discussion of this intrigue is provided by Collcutt, "Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan." 15. 16. Varley, Samurai, p. 45. 17. 17. DOGEN: FATHER OF JAPANESE SOTO ZEN 18. 1. Dumoulin, History of Zen Buddhism, p. 151. This statement may be faint praise, for Japan has never been especially noted for its religious thinkers. As philosophers, the Japanese have been great artists and poets. Perhaps no culture can do everything. 2. Biographical information on Dogen may be found in Hee-Jin Kim, Dogen Kigen--Mystical Realist (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1975); Yuho Yokoi, Zen Master Dogen (New York: Weatherhill, 1976); and Dumoulin, History of Zen Buddhism. Translations of his writings maybe found in Dogen Kigen--Mystical Realist and Zen Master Dogen as well as in Jiyu Kennett, Zen is Eternal Life (Emeryville, Calif.: Dharma, 1976); Dogen, Record of Things Heard from the Treasury of the Eye of the True Teaching trans, by Thomas Cleary (Boulder, Colo.: Great Eastern Book Company, 1978); Francis Dojun Cook, How to Raise an Ox (Los Angeles: Center Publications, 1978); and Kosen Nishiyama and John Steven, Shobogenzo: The Eye and Treasury of the True Law (New York: Weatherhill, 1977). 3. Kim, Dogen Kigen--Mystical Realist, p. 25. 4. Yokoi, Zen Master Dogen, p. 28. 5. See Collcutt, "Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan." 6. Kim, Dogen Kigen--Mystical Realist, p. 29. 7. Ibid., p. 35. 8. See Yokoi, Zen Master Dogen, p. 32. 9. Ibid., pp. 45--46. 10. Ibid., p. 46. 11. Kennett, Zen Is Eternal Life, pp. 141-42. 12. Ibid., p. 152. 13. Ibid., pp. 150-51.