by ADZG | Feb 21, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton Preface to the book, The Art of Just Sitting, edited by Daido Loori, Wisdom Publications, 2002 One way to categorize the meditation practice of shikan taza, or “just sitting,” is as an objectless meditation. This is a definition in...
by ADZG | Feb 20, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton published in “Japanese Journal of Religious Studies,” vol. 32, no. 1, 2005 Introduction Zen Master Eihei Dogen (1200-1253) quotes the Lotus Sutra far more than any other sutra.[1] His use of the Lotus Sutra helps define the world-view...
by ADZG | Feb 19, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton 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 ADZG | Feb 18, 2019 | 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 | 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...
