Off the Cushion
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Taigen Dan Leighton is, of course, the noted “author, scholar, and translator, as well as a fully authorized teacher in Shunryu Suzuki Roshi’s Soto Zen lineage and a Dharma heir of Tenshin Reb Anderson” who serves as Guiding Dharma Teacher at Chicago’s Ancient Dragon Zen Gate. His books include the essential Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression.
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