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THE EASTERN

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NEW SER IES

Vol. X X X II No. 1 2000

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THE EASTERN BUDDHIST

An unsectarian journal devoted to an open and critical study of Mahayana Buddhism in all of its aspects, published by

The Eastern Buddhist Society Otani University, Kyoto

Vol, XXXII, No. 1

NEW SERIES

2000

CONTENTS

A Scene of Hell from the Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki . . . . frontispiece

ARTICLES

Buddhism as a Religion of Hope: Observations on the “Logic’* of

a Doctrine and its Foundational Myth, Luis O. G o m e z

...

1

Imagining Hell: Genshin’s Vision of the Buddhist Hells

as found in the Ojoyoshu, Robert F. R h o d e s ... 22

Tune and Self: Religious Awakening

in Dogen and Shinran, Trent C o l l i e r ...56

The Good Monk and his Money in a Buddhist Monasticism of

“The Mahayana Period,’’ Gregory Schopen... 85

TRANSLATION

Shinran’s View of Buddhist History, by Soga Ryojin

Translated by Jan Van Bragt

With an Introduction by Yasutomi Shin ’y a ...106

VIEWS & REVIEWS

Awakening to the High/Retuming to the Low:

The Pilgrim’s Ideal in Basho’s Oku no Hosomichi,

Dennis Hargiss

... 130

REVIEW ARTICLE

The Discovery o f “the Oldest Buddhist Manuscripts,”

Enomoto F u m i o ... 157

BOOK REVIEWS

Joseph A. Bracken, S.J., The Divine Matrix: Creativity

as Link between East and West (Donald W. MitchelF)

. . .

167

Karma Lekshe Tsomo, ed., Buddhist Women Across Cultures:

Kevin Trainor, Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism:

Rematerializing the Sri Lankan Theravada Tradition

(Robert F. R h o d e s')

...

174

CORRESPONDENCE

“Better Wrong than Sloppy,’* Robert E. Carter

With a Rejoinder from J e ff S h o r e ...179

OBITUARY...182

CONTRIBUTORS

JAN VAN BRAGT, Professor Emeritus, Nanzan University, Nagoya

ROBERT E. CARTER, Professor, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario

TRENT COLLIER, Graduate Student, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Mas­

sachusetts

SHOBHA RANI DASH, Doctoral Student, University o f Delhi and Otani Uni­

versity.

ENOMOTO FUMIO, Professor, Osaka University, Osaka

LUIS O. GOMEZ, Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

DENNIS HARGISS, Graduate Student, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge,

Massachusetts

DONALD W. MITCHELL, Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

ROBERT F. RHODES, Associate Professor, Otani University, Kyoto

GREGORY SCHOPEN, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles

JEFF SHORE, Professor, Hanazono University, Kyoto; Editor, FAS Journal

YASUTOMI SHIN’YA, Professor, Otani University, Kyoto

THE EASTERN BUDDHIST

Founded in 1921 by D. T. Suzuki and Beatrice Lane

Nishida KitarO, Coincidentia Op posit orum and Love (1919) With an Introduction by Michael Finkenthal; Robert H. Paslick, From Nothingness to Nothingness: The Nature and

Destiny o f the Self in Boehme and Nishitani; Ueda Shizuteru, Soseki and Buddhism (n);

UrsApp, St. Francis Xavier's Discovery o f Japanese Buddhism: A Chapter in the European

Discovery o f Buddhism (Part 1: Before the Arrival in Japan, 1547-1549); Sasaki Shizuka, A Study on the Origin o f Mahayana Buddhism; Joseph S. O ’Leary, The Significance o f John Keenan’s Mahayana Theology; Gaien Amstutz, Shinran and Authority in Buddhism

BOOK REVIEW S/NEW S & NOTES VOLUM E 3 0 ,2 ( 1 9 9 7 )

Abe Masao, Ethics and Social Responsibility in Buddhism; Judith Snodgrass, The Deploy­

ment o f Western Philosophy in Meiji Buddhist Revival; William S. Cobb, The Game o f Go: An Unexpected Path to Enlightenment; Urs App, St. Francis Xavier’s Discovery o f Japanese Buddhism: A Chapter in the European Discovery o f Buddhism (Part 2: From Kagoshima to Yamaguchi, 1549-1551); Taitetsu Unno, The Past as a Problem of the Present: Zen, the Kyoto School, and Nationalism; Gregory Gibbs, Understanding Shinran and the Burden o f Traditional Dogmatics; Frederick Franck, Upaya: Stratagems o f the Great Compassion

BOOK REVIEWS

Volume 31,1 (1998)

Kaneko Daiei, Rennyo the Restorer; Abe Masao, Faith and Self-Awakening; James A. Ryan, Zen and Analytical Philosophy; Urs App, Francis Xavier’s Discovery o f Japanese

Buddhism (ill), A Chapter in the European Discovery of Buddhism (Pan 3: From Yamaguchi to India 1551-1552); Jeff Shore, trans.. True Sitting: A Dialogue with Hisamatsu Shin’ichi; Kim Bockja, Ontology without Axiology?: A Review o f Masao Abe’s Account o f the Problem o f Good & Evil from a Western Philosophical Perspective; RE­ VIEW ARTICLE: Richard A. Gardner, Matters o f Life and Death: The Middling Way as a New Buddhist Humanism?

BOOK REVIEWS VOLUM E 3 1 , 2 ( 1 9 9 8 )

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bitration Instead o f War” ; William S. Cobb, Nishida on the Freedom o f the Will; JosepA S.

O ’Leary, The Hermeneutics o f Critical Buddhism; REVIEW ARTICLE: Jeff Shore, Abe

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