1227 AD
Dogen and Soto Zen
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Chan · Zen
Dogen returned from China to Japan in 1227 after receiving Rujing’s approval. His teaching and subsequent monastic communities were foundational for the Soto tradition.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Dating in the source document
- 1227
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology — Dōgen (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2024-03-28
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
- Declared in the cited source’s publisher metadata.
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