Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Dōgen across 4 places, from 1217 to 1247.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Dōgen is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Dōgen was documented, and when
1217year
Kennin-jiattested“In 1217, two years after the death of contemporary Zen Buddhist Myōan Eisai, Dōgen went to study at Kennin-ji Temple (), under Eisai's successor, Myōzen ().”source: Wikipedia: Dōgen
1223year
Chinaattested“In 1223, Dōgen and Myōzen undertook the dangerous passage across the East China Sea to China (Song dynasty) to study in Jing-de-si (Ching-te-ssu, ) monastery as Eisai had once done.”source: Wikipedia: Dōgen
1223year
East China Seaattested“In 1223, Dōgen and Myōzen undertook the dangerous passage across the East China Sea to China (Song dynasty) to study in Jing-de-si (Ching-te-ssu, ) monastery as Eisai had once done.”source: Wikipedia: Dōgen
1227year
Chinaattested“Other notable writings of Dōgen are: * Fukanzazengi (, General Advice on the Principles of Zazen), one volume; probably written immediately after Dōgen's return from China in 1227.”source: Wikipedia: Dōgen
1247year
Kamakura, Kanagawaattested“In 1247, the newly installed shōgun's regent, Hōjō Tokiyori, invited Dōgen to come to Kamakura to teach him.”source: Wikipedia: Dōgen
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1227 to 1228period
Japanmentioned“Dōgen returned to Japan in 1227 or 1228, going back to stay at Kennin-ji, where he had trained previously.”source: Wikipedia: Dōgen
1227 to 1228period
Kennin-jimentioned“Dōgen returned to Japan in 1227 or 1228, going back to stay at Kennin-ji, where he had trained previously.”source: Wikipedia: Dōgen
1243year
Echizen Provincementioned“In 1243, Hatano Yoshishige () offered to relocate Dōgen's community to Echizen province, far to the north of Kyōto.”source: Wikipedia: Dōgen
1248year
Eihei-jimentioned“Dōgen made the rather long journey east to provide the shōgun with lay ordination, and then returned to Eihei-ji in 1248.”source: Wikipedia: Dōgen
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back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
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explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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