Taigen Dan Leighton

Taigen Dan Leighton is the Guiding Dharma Teacher at Ancient Dragon Zen Gate, Chicago and the author of Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression.

Recent Articles

Mechanical bodhisattva sculpture by Wang Zi-Won.

Awakening the Bodhisattva

Venerable Pannavati, Anne Klein, and Ejo McMullen on the possibilities and challenges of the bodhisattva path. Introduction by Taigen Dan Leighton.

The Phenomenal Universe of the Flower Ornament Sutra

The Huayan, or Flower Ornament Sutra, is not widely known in the West, yet it has had a profound and lasting impact on Zen and Chan Buddhism.