Taigen Dan Leighton is a Zen priest and Dharma heir of Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi in the Suzuki Roshi lineage. Taigen has practiced extensively in Japan as well as America, is author of Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes, and is co-translator of several Zen texts including Dogen's Extensive Record, Cultivating the Empty Field, The Wholehearted Way, and Pure Standards for the Zen Community. Taigen currently is Dharma Teacher of the Mountain Source Sangha in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Ancient Dragon Zen Gate in Chicago. He also teaches at the Berkeley Graduate Theological Union.
