ZEN (2009) The Life of Zen Master Dogen ( Jap. with Eng. Subtitles). Full film

This is a dramatic reconstruction of the Life of the great Japanese monk Dogen who flourished in Japan in the 13th century and introduced Soto Zen Buddhism from China. It appears from the film that Buddhism was in a very corrupt state in Japan in the 13th century, with drinking and whoring common in the Sangha. To find out what the Buddha had really taught Dogen travelled to China, where he met the master Juching, whose teaching was to have a lifelong effect of the young monk: the practice of Zen is to