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A monument in front of a small patch of tea at Myoen's Kozan-ji near Kyoto labeled "Japan's oldest tea field"
from Web site titled Kozan-ji Temple site (in English)
Session 23: Kamakura Japan: Second arrival of tea to Japan
Topics
 ❖ Tea manual: Drinking Tea for Health (Kissa Yojoki 喫茶養生記, 1211 or 1214) by Eisai 栄西
      ❖ Tea cultivation by Myōe (明恵, 1173–1232)
      ❖ Dogen's Rules for Monks
      ❖ Other Buddhist sect practices
      ❖ Early spread into lay culture      
Thoughts—read before class, revisit for tests
Nothing yet.
Required—to be completed for today's session
      ✓ Kamakura notes with Myoe dreams [bSpace, PDF] *You are invited to print this out before class and use it as a base document for note-taking. Please check back, however, to see if a new version was published just before or perhaps after the session (but in time for a test).
      ✓  Kissa Yojoki (which has interpretive pages by Sen Shoshitsu and, in the last few pages, an excerpt from the original) [bSpace, PDF]. 
      ✓ You should be able to answer in class the questions listed on Kissa Yojoki—Questions. [bSpace, PDF]
      ✓ Second Arrival to Japan [bSpace, PPT]
      ✓ Dogen and koans [bSpace, PDF]      
      
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