Dogen Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Dogen? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Dogen from Lost 2004 and what is the personality traits.
ISTJ (1w9)
Dogen personality type is ISTJ, and Dogen was extremely introverted and extremely private. He gave no interviews and wrote very little (he only wrote 80 poems and a few essays during his lifetime and he never wrote a book, although many people have tried to write his biography). He also had a lot of trouble with women, and he had two very short-lived marriages. He was even afraid of death, and when he died in 1253, he committed suicide (he was only fifty-five years old).
But Dogen was the most important Japanese Zen figure of the thirteenth century, and he was so important that he had two special statues made in his image: one statue in the Kamakura palace and another in the Tendai monastery at Nara.
Dogen is considered by most Japanese Buddhists to be the greatest Zen teacher of all time, and Japan's Soto school of Zen is sometimes called "the Dogen school." Japan's Rinzai school of Zen, which was founded by Soto's biggest rival, Hakuin Ekaku, is sometimes called "the Hakuin school."
Dogen uses a lot of paradoxes in his writings.
Dōgen Zenji, also known as Dōgen Kigen, Eihei Dōgen, Kōso Jōyō Daishi, or Busshō Dentō Kokushi, was a Japanese Buddhist priest, writer, poet, philosopher, and founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. Originally ordained as a monk in the Tendai School in Kyoto, he was ultimately dissatisfied with its teaching and traveled to China to seek out what he believed to be a more authentic Buddhism. He remained there for five years, finally training under Tiantong Rujing, an eminent teacher of the Chinese Caodong lineage. Upon his return to Japan, he began promoting the practice of zazen through literary works such as Fukan zazengi and Bendōwa. He eventually broke relations completely with the powerful Tendai School, and, after several years of likely friction between himself and the establishment, left Kyoto for the mountainous countryside where he founded the monastery Eihei-ji, which remains the head temple of the Sōtō school today.
