Cover、Contents, Colophon

THE EASTERN

BUDDHIST

NEW SERIES

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Vol. IK No. I June> 1970

EDITORS

Keiji Nishitani

I liroshi Sakamoto

Emyo Ito

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Masao Abe

Shojun Bandu

Richard DeMartino

Mihoko Okamura

Taira Sato

Kansho Ueda

Norman A. Waddell

SECRETARIES

Namiko Miura & Takashi Miura

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review should be addressed to T he Eastern Buddhist Society, Otani

University, Koyama, Kita-ku, Kyoto Japan. Stamped addressed

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THE EASTERN BUDDHIST

An unsectarian journal devoted to an open and critical study of

Mahayana Buddhism in all o f its aspects, published by

T he Eastern Buddhist Society

Otani University, Kyoto

Vol. m No. 1

NEW S E R IE S

June 1970

C O N T E N T S

The Aureole o f the Tempyd Era Kamvm Image o f Nigatsu-dd

Frontispiece

The Personal and the Impersonal in Religion

Keiji Nisbitani ...

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Towards a Philosophy of Religion with the Concept of Pre-Established

Harmony as Guide

Kitard Nisbuia (Introduction by David Dilator tb j)... 19

Aspects of D. T . Suzuki’s Early Interpretations of Buddhism and Zen

Margaret H. Domisb

... 47

Omizutori, One of Japan’s Oldest Buddhist Ceremonies

Martha Boyer & Jikai Fujiyosbi ... &7

Engaku-ji and Kencho-ji: Reflections on the Social Morphology of Two

Kamakura Temples

A . IT. Sadler

... 97

A Dialogue between D. T . Suzuki & Rev. T . N. Callaway ... 109

TRANSLATION

T he Life of Shidd Munan Zenji, by Torei Enji

Introduction by Sdbaku Kobori ... 123

VIEWS & REVIEWS

Buddhists and Christians Meet, William Johnston S. J . ... 141

How Can Buddhism Become a Universal Religion? Archie J. Bohm . . 149

BOOK REVIEWS

F

rederick

j.

streng

: Emptiness—A Study in Religious Meaning

(Kenneth K. InadaJ) ... 153

K. VENKATA

ram anan

: Nagaij una’s Philosophy

(Mitsuyosbi Saigusa)

... 156

yasuichi

awakawa

: Zen Painting (N . A . WaddelF) ... 160

frithjof

schuon

: In the Tracks of Buddhism ( J . S. Edgren)

. . . . 161

d

. T. S

uzuki

: On Indian Mahayana Buddhism (Sbdjun Bandog... 162

CONTRIBUTORS

KE1JI NISHITANI, Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Otani University;

Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University; member, Japan Academy

M ARGARET DORNISH, Assistant Professor, Dept, of Religion, Pomona

College, Claremont, California

DAVID DILW ORTH, Associate Professor o f Philosophy, Manhattanville

College, Purchase, New York

WILLIAM JOHNSTON, S. J. Professor of English Literature; member of the

Institute for the Study of Oriental Religions, Sophia University, Tokyo

M ARTHA BOYER, Lecturer in East Asian Art and Cultural History, East

Asian Institute, University of Copenhagen

JIKAI FUJIYOSHI, Professor of Buddhism, Hanazono College, Kyoto

REV. T . N. CALLAWAY, former Professor, Seinan Gakuin University,

Fukuoka, Japan

SOHAKU KOBORI, Head-Priest of Ryokoin Temple, Daitoku-ji, Kyoto

A. W. SADLER, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Vermont

ARCHIE J. BAHM, Professor of Philosophy, University of New Mexico,

Albuquerque, New Mexico

THE EASTERN BUDDHIST

(NEW SERIES)

VO LUM E I NUMBER 1

On the Hekigan R o h t 9 A M (“Blue C liff Records”), b y Daisetz T . Suzuki

Z en : Its M eaning for M odem Civilization, by Sh in’ichi Hisamatsu

T h e Meaning o f Salvation in the Doctrine o f Pure Land Buddhism, by Daiei Kaneko

Dharmakara Bodhisattva, by RyOjin Soga

Science and Zen, by K u j l NlSOTANl

Christianity and the Encounter o f the World Religions, a review article by Masao Abe

BOOK REVIEWS

VOLUME I NUMBER 2

T h e Awakening o f S e lf in Buddhism, by Keiji Nishitani

T he Hekigan R oh t 9 A M “Case T w o”, by Daisetz T . Suzuki

On Zen Art, by Sh in’ichi Hisamatsu

T h e Concept o f the Pure Land in Nagarjuna’s Doctrine, by Susumu Yamaguchi

T w o Addresses, Ansprache zum H dm at abend and Uber Abraham a Santa Clara, by Martin Heidegger

BOOK REVIEWS

VO LU M E □ N U M BE R 1

DAISETZ SUZUKI MEMORIAL ISSUE

Articles by Thomas Merton, Charles A. M oore, Herbert Read, Shin’ichi Hisamatsu, Hiroshi Saka­

moto, Masao Abe, Richard DeM artino, Somei Truji, Zyoiti Suetuna, Paul J. Braisted, Edward Conze, Erich Fro mm, Akihisa K ondo, Sdhaku K ohori, Ernst Hem’., Shokin Furuta, Alan Watts, Charles Morris, W ilhelm Gundert, Shojun Bando

Reminiscences by Ryojin Soga, Daiei Kaneko, Huston Sm ith, Heinrich Dumoulin, Zenkei Shibayama,

K tehd Otani, Ryflichird Narahara, Bernard Leach, Karl Fredrik Almquist, Eva van Hoboken, John C. II. Wu. Jeannette Speiden Griggs, Douglas V. Steere, Richard A. Gard, Margaret J . Rioch, Jikai Fujiyoshi, A. W. Sadler, Lunsford P. Yandell

Chronology, Bibliography

VO LUM E n N U M BE R 2 (November, 1969)

Tantric and Shingon Buddhism, by Yukei Matsunaga

G od, Emptiness, and the True S elf, by Masao Abe

T h e Meaning o f Gautama Buddha for the M odem World, by Harold F. Parsons

T h e I-T bou Relation in Zen Buddhism, by Keiji Nishitani

T h e T t'ai K fn T ‘an translated by Norman Waddell

VIEWS AN D REVIEWS

An Evaluation o f D . T . Suzuki, by KOSHIRO Tamaki

L a te s t M onum enta Napponica

M ONOGRAPHS

The N ew Religions o f J a p a n : A B ibliography o f Western-Language

M aterials

H . B

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, 1970,11+96 pp., $5.75 (cloth), $3.50(paper)

Fundamental Problems o f Philosophy

Translation o f Nishida Kitaro’s Tetsugaku no kompon mandat, by

D

A. D

, 1970, xiv+ 260 pp., $10.75

E ngi-Shiki: Procedures o f the Engi Era, Books Z -F

Translated by F

G. B

, 1970, xiv+ 224 pp., $12.00

An Encouragement o f Learning

T he first complete English translation o f Fukuzawa Yukichi’s

Gakumon no susume, by D

A. D1LW0RTH and UMEY0

H

, 1969, xv+ 128 pp., $5.75 (cloth), $4.25 (paper)

Distinguishing the W ay

Translated from the Japanese kambun o f Ogyu Sorai’s Bendo, with

original text and annotations by O

G . L

, 1970, xii+ 140

pp., $725

From Prejudice to Tolerance: A S tu d y o f the Japanese Image o f the

West, 1826-1864

R

T . C

, 1970, xiv+ 208 pp., $7.50

The B uddhist Philosophy o f A ssim ilation

A

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, 1969, xii+ 3 1 2 pp., $12.50

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