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Taigen Dan Leighton From a proposed book of essays on Buddhism at the Movies, 2005, now not to be published except on this website The area for which a Buddhist commentary is most obviously relevant is the experience of after-life realms.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Taigen Dan Leighton From a proposed book of essays, Buddhism at the Movies, 2005, now not to be published except on this website.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...
