Taigen Dan Leighton is a SotoZen priest and Dharma successor in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and the San Francisco Zen Center. Leighton began formal Soto practice in 1975 at the New York Zen Center with Kando Nakajima Roshi and graduated in East Asian Studies from Columbia College. He is author of Faces of Compassion, and is co-translator and editor of several Zen texts, including Cultivating the Empty Field, as well as The Wholehearted Way and Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community, both translated together with Shohaku Okumura. Leighton is also a co-translator of collections of Dogen's writings: Moon in a Dewdrop, Enlightenment Unfolds and Beyond Thinking. He currently teaches at the Institute of Buddhist Studies of the Berkeley Graduate Theological Union and leads the Mountain Source Sangha meditation groups in the San Francisco area.