Taigen Dan Leighton

Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra

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As a religion concerned with eternal salvation, Zen is based on and grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism. Indeed, says Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen cannot be fully understood outside of a worldview that sees reality itself as a vital, ephemeral agent of awareness and healing. In this book, Leighton explicates that worldview through the writings of the Zen master Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), considered the founderof the Japanese Soto Zen tradition, which is now spreading in many places in the West. Broader awareness of Dogen's worldview and its implications, says Leighton, is helpful for a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-538337-9
EAN: 9780195383379
Produktnummer: 22688792
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.0 cm 295 g
Gewicht: 295

Über den Autor

Taigen Dan Leighton is an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Theological Union, Institute of Buddhist Studies and author of Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression . He is primary co-translator and editor for several Zen translations, including Dogen's Extensive Record and Cultivating the Empty Field . He is also a Soto Zen priest and Dharma heir.