by ADZG | Jan 16, 2019 | Articles
We Are All Refugees BY TAIGEN DAN LEIGHTON| OCTOBER 30, 2018 Zen teacher Taigen Dan Leighton attended the Tree of Life synagogue while growing up in Pittsburgh. He reflects on how all of us, near and far, are connected to the tragedy. Buddhist monks pay respects at...
by ADZG | Apr 2, 2018 | 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Taigen Dan Leighton From a proposed book of essays on Buddhism at the Movies, 2005, now not to be published except on this website The area for which a Buddhist commentary is most obviously relevant is the experience of after-life realms.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 | Mar 19, 2018 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton Article for February, 2005 IBS Shin Buddhist Conference on “Meditation and American Shin Buddhism,” later published in Pacific World. It is certainly true that Japanese Soto Zen founder Eihei Dogen (1200-1253) encouraged his students...
by ADZG | Mar 19, 2018 | 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 | Mar 19, 2018 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton From the fall 2006 “Buddhadharma” magazine Chinese Huayan Buddhism is considered by many Buddhist scholars to be one of the highpoints of Mahayana thought, or even of world philosophy. The Huayan worldview – which emphasizes...
by ADZG | Mar 19, 2018 | 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...
