Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dogen and the Lotus Sutra.(Book review)

From: Philosophy East and West | Date: July 1, 2008| Author: Winfield, Pamela D. | Copyright information

Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dogen and the Lotus Sutra. By Taigen Dan Leighton. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2007. Pp. 208. Hardcover $55.00.

Taigen Dan Leighton has done it again. Following Dogen's Extensive Record (Wisdom Publications, 2005)--his acclaimed translation, with Shohaku Okumura, of the Eihei koroku--Leighton has produced yet another work of consummate scholarship that expands our understanding not only of the Soto Zen founder Dogen (...

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