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Taigen Dan Leighton
Books by Taigen Dan Leighton
Dogen's Extensive Record
A Translation of the Eihei Koroku
By Eihei Dogen
Contributions by John Daido Loori and Steven Heine / Edited by Taigen Dan Leighton / Foreword by Tenshin Reb Anderson / Translated by Shohaku Okumura
Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto School of Zen, is renowned as one of the world's most remarkable religious thinkers. As Shakespeare does with English, Dogen utterly transforms the language of Zen, using it in novel and extraordinarily beautiful ways to...
The Art of Just Sitting
Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza
Edited by John Daido Loori / Introduction by Taigen Dan Leighton
Shikantaza--or "just sitting"--is one of the simplest, most subtle forms of meditation, and one of the most easily misunderstood. This peerless volume brings together a wealth of writings, from the Buddha himself to Bodhidharma and Dogen and many of modern Zen Buddhism's most influential masters,...