Visions of Awakening Space and Time

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 D=ogen's Extensive Record and Cultivating the Empty Field. He is also a S=ot=o Zen priest and Dharma heir.

Among the eminent Buddhist figures of premodern Japan, perhaps none has drawn more attention in the West than the Zen master Dogen (1200-1253). In a fresh approach, this volume moves beyond Dogen's explicitly Zen heritage to explore his indebtedness to the imagery and rhetorical strategies of the Lotus Sutra in articulating his vision of practice. Leighton is sensitive to the playfulness and creativity of Dogen's hermeneutics. His study will be welcomed by readers interested in the Mahayana as literature and in situating Dogen within the broader intellectual currents of his day.

• I.: The Pivotal Lotus Story and Dogen's Worldview II.: Hermeneutics and Discourse Styles in Study of the Lotus Sutra and Dogen III.: Selected East Asian Interpretations of the Story IV.: Dogen's Interpretations of this Lotus Sutra Story V.: Dogen's View of Earth, Space, and Time Seen in Mahayana Context Afterword: Implications of Dogen's Mahayana Worldview Endnotes Bibliography