Taigen Dan Leighton
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| Birth name: | Daniel Leighton |
| Nationality: | American |
| Religion: | Soto |
| Workplace: | Ancient Dragon Zen Gate Loyola University, Chicago Institute of Buddhist Studies |
| Education: | Columbia University, B.A. California Institute of Integral Studies, M.A. Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Ph.D. |
| Teacher(s): | Kando Nakajima Tenshin Reb Anderson Zenkei Blanche Hartman |
| Predecessor(s): | Tenshin Reb Anderson |
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| Website: | http://ancientdragon.org/ |
Taigen Dan Leighton is a Soto Zen priest, academic[1] and author[2] teaching in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki at Ancient Dragon Zen Gate located in Chicago, Illinois.[3] Leighton was ordained as a priest by Tenshin Reb Anderson in 1986, from whom he received Dharma transmission in 2000. He began his Zen practice in 1975 at the New York Zen Center, training under the roshi Kando Nakajima. During this period Leighton also began completing his studies at Columbia University, where he obtained a bachelors degree in East Asian studies. Leighton had been a film director in New York until 1979, when he left for California and began sitting at the San Francisco Zen Center (working for the Tassajara Bakery). Over the following years, Leighton practiced in residence at all of the San Francisco Zen Center facilities, including Green Gulch Farm Zen Center and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. During the early 1990s he traveled to Japan, spending two years there translating Dogen texts with Shohaku Okumura and training under various masters. Two years after returning, in 1994, Leighton founded the Mountain Source Sangha in Bolinas, San Rafael, and San Francisco, California (of which Ancient Dragon Gate is a sister temple).[1] He currently teaches at Loyola University, Chicago and also offers online classes for the Institute of Buddhist Studies.[2]
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[edit] Professorships
Over the years, Leighton has taught at various universities around the world. The following is a complete list:
- Kansai University
- Otani University
- California Institute of Integral Studies
- University of San Francisco
- Saint Mary's College of California
- Institute of Buddhist Studies
- Loyola University, Chicago
- Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary
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[edit] Bibliography
- Leighton, Taigen Dan (2007). Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dogen and the Lotus Sutra. Oxford University Press. ISBN 019532093X.
- Payne, Richard Karl; Leighton, Taigen Dan (2006). Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism). Routledge. ISBN 0203007271.
- Leighton, Taigen Dan; Okumura, Shohaku; Dogen (2004). Dogen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Koroku. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0861713052.
- Kim, Hee-Jin; Leighton, Taigen Dan (Foreword) (2004). Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist, Third edition. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0861713761.
- Loori, John Daido; Leighton, Taigen Dan (Foreword) (2004). The Art of Just Sitting, Second Edition: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 086171394X.
- Leighton, Taigen Dan (2003). Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0861713338.
- Warner, Jisho Cary; Shohaku Okumura; Taigen Dan Leighton; John McRae (2001). Nothing Is Hidden : Essays on Zen Master Dogen's Instructions for the Cook. Weatherhill. ISBN 0834804786.
- Leighton, Taigen Dan (1998). Bodhisattva Archetypes: Classic Buddhist Guides to Awakening and Their Modern Expression. Penguin Arkana. ISBN 0140195564.
- Uchiyama, Kosho; Leighton, Taigen Dan; Okumura, Shohaku; Dogen (1997). The Wholehearted Way: A Translation of Eihei Dogen's Bendowa. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 080483105X.
- Leighton, Taigen Dan; Okumura, Shohaku; Dogen (1996). Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community a Translation of the Eihei Shingi. State University of New York Press. ISBN 0585046239.
- Leighton, Taigen Dan; Hongzhi Zhengjue (1991). Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi. North Point Press. ISBN 0865474745.
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[edit] References
- Ford, James Ishmael (2006). Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0861715098.
- Leighton, Taigen Dan; Okumura, Shohaku; Dogen (2004). Dogen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Koroku. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0861713052.
- Uchiyama, Kosho; Leighton, Taigen Dan; Okumura, Shohaku; Dogen (1997). The Wholehearted Way: A Translation of Ehihei Dogen's Bendowa. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 080483105X.
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