…time. Strictly speaking, if you want to keep precepts literally, you have to go to India. Then you can keep precepts completely. Eisai Zenji referred to a very interesting story in his work. There was some monk from India. When he came to India, China,…

…his teacher. Before dogen went to china he studied hieizan tendai, the main temple of tendai school and after tendai he went to Eisai Zenji, ryoshinji. And then he went to china because Eisai Zenji passed away when he was very young. So he went to china…

…tendai, the main temple of tendai school and after tendai he went to Eisai Zenji, ryoshinji. And then he went to china because Eisai Zenji passed away when he was very young. So he went to china to continue his practice with good teacher. He may have,…

…buddha, a disciple. A disciple of buddha, that's all and he has nothing in his mind. But when he went to he saw nyōjo Eisai Zenji. He already gave up scholarly study of Buddhism, which he was, he had been involved in for a long, long time. But his…