Daigo (Zen)

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Daigo-tettei (大悟徹底, daigo-tettei) is a Japanese term used within Zen Buddhism, which usually denotes a "great realization or enlightenment."^[1] Moreover, "traditionally, daigo is final, absolute enlightenment, contrasted to experiences of glimpsing enlightenment, shōgo"^[1] or kenshō. According to Dōgen in a fascicle of the Shōbōgenzō 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

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 0-585-04623-9. 
• Shaner, David Edward (1985). The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Perspective of Kūkai and Dōgen. State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-88706-061-7. 
• Uchiyama, Kosho; Leighton, Taigen Dan; Okumura, Shohaku; Dogen (1997). The Wholehearted Way: A Translation of Eihei Dogen's Bendowa. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 0-8048-3105-X. 
• Williams, J. P. (2000). Denying Divinity: Apophasis in the Patristic Christian and Soto Zen Buddhist. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-826999-4.