Recently added articles from Buddhist-Christian Studies:
Editorial.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2008; ... I am going to leave to Chris Hill the task of introducing our special section on Masao Abe. In this editorial for Buddhist-Christian Studies 2008 I would like to focus on what I have been discovering about Thomas Merton and Buddhism in this fortieth anniversary year of his untimely death ...
Errata.(Correction notice)
Jan 01, 2008 ... In Buddhist-Christian Studies, volume 24 (2004), in the review of Zen and the Art of Postmodern Philosophy by Robert Magliola the following errors should be corrected: P ....
Practicing the religious self: Buddhist-Christian identity as social artifact.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... It is somewhat paradoxical to write or speak about identity formation in two religious traditions that ultimately deny the reality of any identity that we might claim or fashion for ourselves. In the Christian traditions, a person's true (or ultimate) identity is received through God's ...
What has Chalcedon to do with Lhasa? John Keenan's and Lai Pai-chiu's reflections on classical Christology and the possible shape of a Tibetan theology of incarnation.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The starting point of this paper is a critique of John Keenan's so-called "Mahayana Christology" in The Meaning of Christ, in light of Lai Pai-chiu's "Chinese" response to Keenan's position. My argument is that Lai correctly construes the Chalcedonian definition as a critique of Hellenist ...
Keiji Nishitani and Karl Rahner: a response to nihility.
Jan 01, 2008; ... In his essay "Kenosis and Emptiness," Buddhist scholar Masao Abe states that "the necessity of tackling the Buddhist-Christian dialogue not merely in terms of interfaith dialogue, but also as an inseparable part of the wider sociocultural problem of religion versus irreligion has become ...
Mind and Life, religion and science: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Buddhism-Christianity-Science trialogue.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In this essay, I explore what happens to the Buddhist-Christian dialogue when another party is introduced into the conversation, in this case, the sciences. My question concerns how the interface between religion and science is related to the Buddhist-Christian encounter and vice versa. I ...
"Something breaks through a little": the marriage of Zen and Sophia in the life of Thomas Merton.(THOMAS MERTON FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The fact that you are a Zen Buddhist and I am a Christian monk, far from separating us, makes us most like one another. How many centuries is it going to take for people to discover this fact? (1) Though Merton's "turn to the East" began well before Vatican II would turn the ...
Thomas Merton's Bangkok lecture of December 1968.
Jan 01, 2008; ... PREPARATIONS FOR THE MEETING AND ITS PURPOSE After being elected abbot primate of the Benedictine Confederation in September 1967, I was encouraged by discovering that the Benedictines and the two branches of the Cistercians (those of the Common Observance and those of the ...
The thought and legacy of Masao Abe.(PANEL ON MASAO ABE)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Masao Abe stands as the most important Buddhist in modern interfaith dialogue and the main transmitter of Zen thought to the West following the death of D. T. Suzuki. His most widely read work, Zen and Western Thought, edited by William LaFleur, won an award in 1987 from the American ...
Masao Abe's early spiritual journey and his later philosophy.(PANEL ON MASAO ABE)(Biography)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Masao Abe was born in 1915 in Osaka, Japan. He was the third of six children, and his father was a physician. His mother was the only person in the family who practiced religion, namely, Jodo Shinshu or Shin Buddhism. As a university student, Abe attended what is now Osaka Municipal ...
Masao Abe: D. T. Suzuki's legacies and an "academic dharma lineage" in North America.(PANEL ON MASAO ABE)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Professor Abe is generally regarded as the torch bearer of D. T. Suzuki. But how did that come about? This essay sheds light on the relationship between Suzuki and Abe. Abe's professor, Hisamatsu Shin'ichi, had come to know Suzuki through his mentor Nishida Kitaro. Suzuki was ...
Masao Abe: a bodhisattva's vow.(PANEL ON MASAO ABE)
Jan 01, 2008; ... About ten years ago, I enjoyed a fine Japanese lunch with my friend and teacher, the late Masao Abe. I gathered with him and his wife, Ikuko, in a traditional restaurant in Kyoto. Abe Sensei had been somewhat pensive and withdrawn for most of the meal. Mrs. Abe and I had been bantering ...
Masao Abe.(PANEL ON MASAO ABE)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Masao Abe spent a year at the Blaisdell Institute in Claremont, 1965-1966. I was on sabbatical in Germany that year. On return I learned from many people that I had missed a great opportunity for an authentic encounter with a living Buddhist thinker who understood Christianity very well ....
Masao Abe and the dialogue breakthrough.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... I am profoundly grateful to Masao Abe for many reasons, including his articulation of Zen and his responsiveness to my own work, but most especially for his breakthrough work on dialogue. For he, along with his Christian partner in dialogue, John B. Cobb Jr., has taken us to a new ...
Unconventional guest: Masao Abe's dialogue with the American academy.(PANEL ON MASAO ABE)
Jan 01, 2008; ... During the two years we were together at Princeton I once took Masao Abe to meet my parents, then alive and living in New Jersey. I had told them some things in advance about Abe, about Zen, and about what in Abe's ways could at times be unconventional. My mother, I knew, would put lots of ...
Is Masao Abe an original thinker?(PANEL ON MASAO ABE)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... During the course of a remarkable career spanning six decades in various institutions in Japan and the West, beginning with his training under Hisamatsu Shin'ichi at Kyoto University, Masao Abe became known for several important accomplishments in disseminating Buddhist thought in ...
The 2007 meeting of the society for Buddhist-Christian Studies: San Diego, California, November 16-17, 2007.(NEWS AND VIEWS)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies sponsored two sessions in conjunction with the 2007 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). Each session highlighted themes related to the work of a major figure in Buddhist-Christian dialogue. The first session, addressing the ...
In memoriam: Jan Van Bragt (1928-2007).(NEWS & VIEWS)(Obituary)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Early on the morning of Easter Thursday, April 12, 2007, Jan Van Bragt passed away quietly at the age of seventy-eight. (1) During the previous year his health had begun to deteriorate, until in the final days of 2006 he was obliged to leave Kyoto and take up residence with his religious ...
Zen/Ch'an-Catholic dialogue explores the path to spiritual maturation.(NEWS AND VIEWS)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The second in a four year series of dialogues between Catholics and Buddhists on the West Coast was held at Mercy Center, Burlingame, California, on the topic "Abiding in Christ; Taking Refuge in the Buddha: Then What?" The January 28-February 2, 2008, meeting was cochaired by Rev. Heng ...
European network of Buddhist-Christian studies: Salzburg, Austria, June 8-11, 2007.(NEWS AND VIEWS)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Is it a problem for Buddhists that what is generally regarded as religion can be profoundly different from tradition to tradition? Is it appropriate or even desirable to speak of a Buddhist "theology of religions"? Does Buddhism have its own ways, however subtle, of affirming its ...