by ADZG | Feb 17, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton 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” In many ways the...
by ADZG | Feb 16, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton From an issue of “Dharma World” magazine, published in Japan, Copyright Kosei Publishing Company, Sept./Oct., 2004, contact: dharmaworld@mail.kosei-shuppan.co.jp In the first half of the Lotus Sutra, on a few occasions Shakyamuni Buddha...
by ADZG | Feb 15, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton Article for the book, Zen Masters, edited by Steven Heine and Dale Wright (Oxford University Press, 2010) Dongshan Liangjie (807-869, Jpn.: Tôzan Ryôkai), one of the most prominent teachers of Tang dynasty Chan, is considered the founder of the...
by ADZG | Feb 14, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton From a proposed book of essays on Buddhism at the Movies, 2005, now not to be published except on this website The area for which a Buddhist commentary is most obviously relevant is the experience of after-life realms. The movie avoids any specific...
by ADZG | Feb 13, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton From a proposed book of essays, Buddhism at the Movies, 2005, now not to be published except on this website. The 1993 film “Searching for Bobby Fischer” is based on a true story about a young New York chess prodigy, Josh Waitzkin,...
by ADZG | Feb 12, 2019 | Articles
Zen Rule-Bending and the Training for Pure Hearts Taigen Dan Leighton 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...
by ADZG | Feb 11, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton From the Fall, 2004 “Turning Wheel,” the journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship Copyright Taigen Dan Leighton, 2004 A number of Japanese Buddhist founders, including Saicho, Eisai, Dogen, and Nichiren, issued proclamations encouraging...
by ADZG | Feb 10, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton Published in the Sweetcake Enso blog on July 29, 2011 In his essay “Ungraspable Mind” written in 1241 in his epic Shōbōgenzō “True Dharma Eye Treasury,” the Japanese Sōtō Zen founder Eihei Dōgen (1200-1253) relates an old teaching story about the...
by ADZG | Feb 9, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton This article is for a book on Bodhisattva Vows; published in Germany, and in German, 2002 The bodhisattva vows are guides to our expression of deepest reality. Vowing is the practice of sustaining our beneficial expressions. Such commitment is the...
by ADZG | Feb 8, 2019 | Articles
Published in July-September 2013 issue of “Dharma World” magazine, published in Japan Copyright Kosei Publishing Company, contact: dharmaworld@mail.kosei-shuppan.co.jp Where can we find the Awakened One and the relief of suffering in our own world and in...
by ADZG | Feb 7, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton written 2004, published in “Eastern Horizon,” No. 27, January, 2009. Skillful Means, upaya in Sanskrit; fang-pien in Chinese; hoben in Japanese, is an essential concept in Mahayana Buddhism. Skillful means, sometimes translated as...
by ADZG | Jan 16, 2019 | Other Articles
Listen to Alan Senauke on WBEZ’s Worldview! Hozan Alan Senauke, Vice Abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center and former Executive of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, recently spoke at Ancient Dragon and DePaul University. He was interviewed by Jerome McDonnell of WBEZ...
by ADZG | Oct 3, 2018 | Full Moon
FULL MOON BODHISATTVA CEREMONY OCTOBER 24 @ 7:45 PM – 8:45 PM Traditional monthly repentance ceremony with melodic chanting invoking buddhas and bodhisattvas, led by Ancient Dragon Zen priests. Co-sponsored by Ancient Dragon Zen Gate and HealthKick Kung...
by ADZG | Mar 23, 2018 | Chants
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by ADZG | Mar 23, 2018 | Chants
Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, when deeply practicing prajna paramita, clearly saw that all * five skandhas are empty and thus relieved all suffering. Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from form. Form itself is emptiness,...
by ADZG | Mar 23, 2018 | Chants
KAN JI ZAI BO SATSU GYO JIN HAN NYA HA RA MI TA JI SHO KEN GO ON KAI KU DO IS SAI KU YAKU SHA RI SHI SHIKI FU I KU KU FU I SHIKI SHIKI SOKU ZE KU KU SOKU ZE SHIKI JU SO GYO SHIKI YAKU BU NYO ZE SHA RI SHI ZE SHO HO KU SO FU SHO FU METSU FU KU FU JO FU ZO FU GEN ZE KO...
by ADZG | Mar 23, 2018 | Chants
Homage to the Perfection of Wisdom, the lovely, the holy. The Perfection of Wisdom gives light. Unstained, the entire world cannot stain her. She is the source of light, and from everyone in the triple world she removes darkness. Most excellent are her works. She...
by ADZG | Mar 23, 2018 | Chants
This is what should be accomplished by the one who is wise, who seeks the good and has obtained peace: Let one be strenuous, upright and sincere, without pride, easily contented and joyous. Let one not be submerged by the things of the world. Let one not take upon...
by ADZG | Mar 23, 2018 | Chants
Lotus Sutra, chapter, 16 Since I attained buddhahood, The number of kalpas that have passed Is incalculable hundreds, thousands, myriads, And billions of long aeons. Constantly I have voiced the Dharma, teaching Countless millions living beings, So that they entered...
by ADZG | Mar 23, 2018 | Chants
Louts Sutra, chapter 25 Listen to the deeds of Kanzeon (Regarder of the Worlds Sounds): Aptly responding in every quarter, Who with immense vow deep as oceans, Throughout kalpas beyond reckoning, Has served many billions of Buddhas, Bringing forth this great pure vow...
