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  • Cultivating the Empty Field

    The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi

    by Taigen Dan Leighton, Yi Wu ...
    Series series Tuttle Library Of Enlightenment
    Cultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch'an master Hongzhi's Extensive Record.First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as shikantaza ("just sitting") Chinese Zen master Hongzhi is one of the most influential poets in all of Zen literature. This translation of Hongzhi's poetry, the only such volume available in English, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Just This Is It

    Dongshan and the Practice of Suchness

    by Taigen Dan Leighton ...
    The joy of "suchness"—the absolute and true nature inherent in all appearance—shines through the teachings attributed to Dongshan Liangjie (807–869), the legendary founder of the Caodong lineage of Chan Buddhism (the predecessor of Sōtō Zen). Taigen Dan Leighton looks at the teachings attributed to Dongshan—in his Recorded Sayings and in the numerous koans in which he is featured as a character—to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Faces of Compassion

    Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression — An Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism

    by Taigen Dan Leighton ...
    Faces of Compassion introduces us to enlightened beings, the bodhisattvas of Buddhist lore. They're not otherworldly gods with superhuman qualities but shining examples of our own highest potential. Archetypes of wisdom and compassion, the bodhisattvas of Buddhism are powerful and compelling images of awakening. Scholar and Zen teacher Taigen Dan Leighton engagingly explores the imagery and lore ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Zen Questions

    Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry

    by Taigen Dan Leighton ...
    Whether speaking of student or master, Zen hinges on the question. Zen practice does not necessarily focus on the answers, but on finding a space in which we may sustain uncertainty and remain present and upright in the middle of investigations. Zen Questions begins by exploring "The World of Zazen,"--the foundational practice of the Zen school--presenting it as an attitude of sustained inquiry ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Visions of Awakening Space and Time

    Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra

    by Taigen Dan Leighton ...
    As a religion concerned with universal liberation, Zen 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, dynamic agent of awareness and healing. In this book, Leighton explicates that worldview through the writings of the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Art of Just Sitting

    Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza

    Edited by John Daido Loori ...
    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, all pointing directly to the heart of this powerful practice. Edited by one of America's pre-eminent ... Read more

    $22.00 CAD

  • Realizing Genjokoan

    The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo

    by Shohaku Okumura ...
    Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto school of Zen, is renowned as one the world's most remarkable religious geniuses. His works are both richly poetic and deeply insightful and philosophical, pointing to the endless depths of Zen exploration. And almost precisely because of these facts, Dogen is often difficult for readers to understand and fully appreciate ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism

    Edited by Richard K. Payne, Taigen Dan Leighton ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    The medieval period of Japanese religious history is commonly known as one in which there was a radical transformation of the religious culture. This book suggests an alternate approach to understanding the dynamics of that transformation. One main topic of analysis focuses on what Buddhism - its practices and doctrines, its traditions and institutions - meant for medieval Japanese peoples ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist

    by Hee-Jin Kim ...
    Eihei Dogen, the founder of the Japanese branch of the Soto Zen Buddhist school, is considered one of the world's most remarkable religious philosophers. Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist is a comprehensive introduction to the genius of this brilliant thinker. This thirteenth-century figure has much to teach us all and the questions that drove him have always been at the heart of Buddhist practice.At ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Dogen's Extensive Record

    A Translation of the Eihei Koroku

    by Eihei Dogen, John Daido Loori, Steven Heine ...
    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 point to everything important in the religious life.He is known for two major works. The first work, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Inside the Grass Hut

    Living Shitou's Classic Zen Poem

    by Ben Connelly ...
    Enter the mind and practice of Zen: apply the insights of one of Zen's classic poems to your life--here and now.Destined to become a trusted, dog-eared companion.Shitou Xiqian’s “Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage” is a remarkably accessible work of profound depth; in thirty-two lines Shitou expresses the breadth of the entire Buddhist tradition with simple, vivid imagery. Ben Connelly’s Inside the ... Read more

    $28.00 CAD

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  • Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo

    by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, Shohaku Okumura ...
    Translated by Shohaku Okumura ...
    Abandon your treasured delusions and hit the road with one of the most important Zen masters of twentieth-century Japan.Eschewing the entrapments of vanity, power, and money, "Homeless" Kodo Sawaki Roshi refused to accept a permanent position as a temple abbot, despite repeated offers. Instead, he lived a traveling, "homeless" life, going from temple to temple, student to student, teaching and ... Read more

    $26.00 CAD