Articles

• Zazen as Enactment Ritual
  Article for the book, Zen Rituals: Studies of Zen Theory in Practice, edited by Steven Heine and Dale Wright (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• Meeting Our Ancestors of the Future
  Published in "Shambhala Sun," September, 1996, as "Now is the Past of the Future."
• Dogen's Appropriation of Lotus Sutra Ground and Space
  published in "Japanese Journal of Religious Studies," vol. 32, no. 1, 2005
• Now the Whole Planet Has its Head on Fire: Collective Karma and Systemic Responses to Climate Disruption
  From the book, A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency, edited by John Stanley, David Loy, and Gyurme Dorje (Wisdom Publications, 2009)
• Sacred Fools and Monastic Rules: Zen Rule-Bending and the Training for Pure Hearts
  From the book, Purity of Heart and Contemplation: A Monastic Dialogue Between Christian and Asian Traditions, edited by Bruno Barnhart and Joseph Wong, Continuum, 2001. Reprinted by permission of The Continuum International Publishing Group.
• Huayan Buddhism and the Phenomenal Universe of the Flower Ornament Sutra
  From the fall 2006 "Buddhadharma" magazine
• Unalienable Rights, Mahayana Inclusivity, and Right Livelihood
  Article for the Journal "Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science" Volume 13, number 3/4; Fall/Winter 2006; "The Value of Buddhism for Contemporary Western Society"
• Dogen's Zazen as Other-Power Practice
  Article for February, 2005 IBS Shin Buddhist Conference on "Meditation and American Shin Buddhism," later published in Pacific World.
• Power and Love in the Intermediate Realm: Buddhist Reflections on "Ghost"
  From a proposed book of essays on Buddhism at the Movies, 2005, now not to be published except on this website
• Zen and the Art of Teaching: Buddhist Reflections on "Searching for Bobby Fischer"
  From a proposed book of essays, Buddhism at the Movies, 2005, now not to be published except on this website.
• Hongzhi, Dogen and the Background of Shikantaza
  Preface to the book, The Art of Just Sitting, edited by Daido Loori, Wisdom Publications, 2002
• Buddhism in the West and Liberation as Eternal Vigilance
  From an issue of "Dharma World" magazine, published in Japan, © Kosei Publishing Company, Sept./Oct., 2004, contact: dharmaworld@mail.kosei-shuppan.co.jp
• American Buddhist Values and the Practice of Enlightened Patriotism
  From the Fall, 2004 "Turning Wheel," the journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship © Taigen Dan Leighton, 2004
• In Praise of Bodhisattva Vows
  This article is for a book on Bodhisattva Vows; to be published in Germany, and in German, 2002
• Reflections on Translating Dogen
  Published in "Dharma Eye" Journal of the Soto Zen Education Center, © 2000
• Dogen's Cosmology of Space and the Practice of Self-Fulfillment
  Excerpted from "Pacific World" journal, 2004.
• Dylan And Dogen: Masters of Spirit and Words
  Published in "Kyoto Journal," No. 39, 1999
• An Introduction to Skillful Means
  written 2004, published in "Eastern Horizon," No. 27, January, 2009.
• The Lotus Sutra as a Source for Dogen's Discourse Style
  Paper for an academic conference on "Discourse and Rhetoric in the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism," 2001. A version of this article later appeared in the book, Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism, edited by Richard Payne and Taigen Dan Leighton (Routledge, 2006).