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THE EASTERN

BUDDHIST

NEW SERIES

Vol.

XXXVI

Nos.

1&2

2004

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Vol.

XXXVI,

Nos.

1

&

2

NEW

SERIES

2004

CONTENTS

SUZUKI DAISETZ with

ALBERT

STUNKARD

....

frontispieces

ARTICLES

FEATURE:

Japanese Buddhism

and

Hansen

’

s Disease

Editor’s

Note...

1

The

Leprosy

Relief

Work

of

Tsunawaki

Ryumyo,

A Translation

with

Introduction

by

Trevor Murphy

...

3

The

Life

and

Thought of

Ogasawara

Noboru,

Hishiki

Masaharu...

31

Buddhism

and

Hansen’

s

Disease,

Kajiwcira

Keiichi... 40

Tibetan

Buddhism

Registered: A

Catalogue

from

the Imperial

Court

of

’Phang

Thang,

Georgios

T.

Halkias ...

46

Tracing

the Circle

of

Truth:

Inoue

Enryo

on

the

History

of

Philosophy

and

Buddhism,

Gerard

Clinton

Godart...

106

Greeks and Buddhism: Historical

Contacts

in

the

Development

of

a

Universal

Religion,

Demetrios

Th. Vassiliades...

134

A

Problem in

the Re-establishment of

the

Bhikkhum

Sangha

in Modem

Theravada

Buddhism, Sasaki

Shizuka

...

184

Suzuki

Daisetz: An

Appreciation, Albert

Stunkard...

192

BOOK

REVIEWS

Richard K.

Payne

and

Kenneth

K. Tanaka

eds.,

Approaching

the

Land

of

Bliss: Religious

Praxis

in the

Cult

of

Amitdbha

(Robert

F.

Rhodes)...

229

Judith

Snodgrass, Presenting

Japanese Buddhism

to

the

West:

Orientalism,

Occidentalism

and

the

Columbian

Exposition

(Elisabetta

Porcu)

...

232

Robert

Kritzer,

Vasubandhu

and

the Yogdcarabhumi:

Yogdcdra

Elements

in

the

Abhidharmakosabhasya

(Takahashi Koichi)...

236

OBITUARY Gadjin

Masato

Nagao

(1907-2005)...

243

CONTRIBUTORS

Albert

STUNKARD,

Emeritus

Professor

of

Psychiatry,

University of

Pennsylvania

Demetrios

Th.

VASSILIADES,

Chairman,

the Indo-Hellenic

Society

for

Culture and

Development, Athens

Elisabetta

PORCU, Ph.D.

Candidate,

University

of

Marburg;

Research

Fellow,

Otani

University

Shin

Buddhist Comprehensive

Research

Institute,

Kyoto

Georgios

T. HALKIAS,

Ph.D.

Candidate,

University of

Oxford;

Shinshu

Otani-ha

(Higashi Honganji)

Fellow

Gerard

Clinton GOD ART, Graduate

Student,

The

University

of Chicago

HISHIKI

Masaharu,

Professor,

Doho

University,

Nagoya

Jonathan A.

SILK,

Professor, University

of

California, Los

Angeles

KAJIWARA

Keiichi,

Pediatric Doctor,

National

Hospital

Organization

Himeji Medical

Center;

Buddhist Priest of Shinshu Otani-ha

Robert F. RHODES,

Professor,

Otani University, Kyoto

SASAKI

Shizuka,

Professor,

Hanazono

University,

Kyoto

TAKAHASHI

Koichi,

Research

Fellow

(Postdoctoral

Fellowships

for

Research

Abroad,

2005.10-2007.9),

Japan

Society

for

the

Promotion

of

Science,

Tokyo

Trevor MURPHY,

Ph.D.

(Yamanashi

Medical

University); Researcher,

Minobusan

University

Research

Institute of

Eastern

Culture,

Minobu

THE

EASTERN

BUDDHIST

Founded

in

1921 by

D. T.

Suzuki

and

Beatrice

Lane

Suzuki

VOLUME 35, 1&2 (2003)

FEATURED ARTICLES on “Kiyozawa Manshi Centennial”: Alfred Bloom, Kiyozawa Manshi and the Revitalization of Buddhism; Hashimoto Mineo, Two Models of the Modernization of Japanese Buddhism: Kiyozawa Manshi and D. T. Suzuki; Fujita Masakatsu, Kiyozawa Manshi and Nishida Kitaro; Mark L. Blum, Truth in Need: Kiyozawa Manshi and Saren Kierkegaard; Yasutomi Shin’ya, The Way of Introspection: Kiyozawa Manshi’s Methodology.

SYMPOSIUM on “Early Mahayana”: Paul Harrison, Mediums and Messages: Reflections on the Production of Mahayana Sutras; Rhi Juhyung, Early Mahayana and Gandharan Buddhism: An Assessment of the Visual Evidence; Aramaki Noritoshi, Toward a New Working Hypothesis on the Origin of Mahayana Buddhism.

TRANSLATION: Gereon Kopf, Neither Dogma nor Institution: Nishida on the Role of Religion. BOOK REVIEWS

VOLUME 34, 2 (2002)

FEATURED ARTICLES on “Buddhism and Economics”: John B. Cobb, Jr., A Buddhist-Christian Critique of Neo-Liberal Economics; Keibo Oiwa, Slowing Down to Life: Revisiting Schumacher on Religion and Economics; Ama Toshimaro, Shin Buddhism and Economic Ethics; Andrew Skilton, State or Statement?: Samadhi in Some Early Mahayana Sutras; Jacob N. Kinnard, On Buddhist ‘Bibliolaters’: Representing and Worshiping the Book in Medieval Indian Buddhism; Takemura Makio, Zen and Pure Land: An Important Aspect of D. T. Suzuki’s Interpretation of Buddhism. REVIEW ARTICLE: Bret W. Davis, Introducing the Kyoto School as World Philosophy: Reflec­ tions on James W. Heisig’s Philosophers of Nothingness.

BOOK REVIEWS VOLUME 34, 1 (2002)

William S. Waldron, Buddhist Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Thinking about ‘Thoughts without a Thinker’; Douglas K. Mikkelson, The Cardinal Virtues of the Bodhisattva in Dogen’s Shdbdgenzo Zuimonki; TRANSLATION: Norman Waddell, Hakuin’s Yasenkanna.

VIEWS & REVIEWS: Ishikawa Rikizan, Colloquial Transcriptions as Sources for Understanding Zen in Japan, introduced and translated by William Bodiford.

BOOK REVIEWS VOLUME 33, 2 (2001)

D. T. Suzuki, Notes and Fragments, with an introduction by Mihoko Okamura.

FEATURED ARTICLES on “Japanese Buddhism and Social Ethics”: Christopher Ives, Protect the Dharma, Protect the Country: Buddhist War Responsibility and Social Ethics; Ama Toshimaro, Towards a Shin Buddhist Social Ethics; Appendix: Takagi Kenmyo, My Socialism (Yo ga shakaishugi)', Yanagida Seizan, Passion for Zen: Two Talks at the San Francisco Zen Center, trans­ lated and introduced by Urs App.

VIEWS & REVIEWS: Dale S. Wright, The ‘Thought of Enlightenment’ in Fa-tsang’s Hua-yen Buddhism; Gregory Gibbs, Reverence and Reality; David R. Loy, A New Holy War against Evil?: The Response of an American Buddhist; Hagiwara Takao, Japan and the West in D. T. Suzuki’s Nostalgic Double Journeys.

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