Lotus Lake, Dragon Pool (ePub)

Trevor Pryce Leggett was an author, Judo expert, Buddhist, and was for twenty four years the head of the BBC's Japanese service. He studied Zen and Judo while in Japan, and published several translations of major Zen texts in his numerous books on the subject, along with translations of the Sanskrit writings of Shankara. Prior to his move to Japan in 1938, Leggett began to study Judo, and eventually held 6th Dan in Judo from the Kodokan and became one of the leading European Judoka.
Leggett studied Adhyatma Yoga under the instruction of Hari Prasad Shastri, and was a senior member of his Shanti Sadan yoga centre. As well as his translations, Leggett produced his own teachings, training stories and instructive works on Yoga, Zen, and the Martial Arts, as well as producing the first book by a non-Japanese author on the subject of Shogi, or Japanese chess, in which he held 4th Dan. Leggett gave lectures on Yoga and Zen to spiritual groups such as the Albion Yoga Movement, the Theosophical Society and the Buddhist Society over a period of many years, and wrote articles for publications such as The Middle Way, Self-Knowledge and Tattvaloka.
A number of these talks and articles are available to the public on the website for the Terence Leggett Adhyatma Yoga Trust, or TLAYT. TLAYT was formed upon Leggett's death in 2001, as was instructed in his will, and its objective is to promote the knowledge of Yoga, Vedanta, Zen, Buddhism, Judo and Shogi. The Trust's main means to achieve these objectives is through the republication of Leggett's books, which include 'Encounters in Yoga and Zen' and 'Lotus Lake Dragon Pool', two fascinating selections of traditional Japanese and Indian stories that can be used to illustrate and illuminate a variety of moral and spiritual dilemmas, as well as a translation of Shankara's 'Vivarana' sub-commentary on the Yoga Sutras, which includes an introduction by Leggett. 'The Old Zen Master' contains stories related not only to Buddhism but also