Ancient Dragon Zen Gate's Guiding Dharma Teacher is Taigen Dan Leighton. Taigen has relocated to Chicago from the S.F. Bay area. He is now working to develop accessible practice and training programs in the Chicago area through Ancient Dragon Zen Gate. Taigen is an 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. He still teaches online through the Institute of Buddhist Studies of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and remains Founding Dharma Teacher and consultant for our sister group, Mountain Source Sangha in the San Francisco Bay Area. Taigen will be teaching at Loyola University in Chicago, and Meadville Lombard, the Unitarian seminary in Hyde Park.