THE EASTERN BUDDHIST

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THE EASTERN BUDDHIST SOCIETY

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THE EASTERN BUDDHISTAn 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. 2 NEW SERIES 2000

CONTENTS

The East Gate of Stupa No.l, S an c l...................................... frontispiece

ARTICLESThe Mahayana and the Middle Period in Indian Buddhism:

Through a Chinese Looking-glass, Gregory S c h o p e n ................ 1Buddhism and the Ethics of Nature—Some Remarks,

Lambert Schmithausen..................................................................... 26Buddhist ‘Ethology’ in the Pali Canon: Between Symbol

and Observation, F/orzw De/eaww..................................................... 79Magician as Environmentalist: Fertility Elements

in South and Southeast Asian Buddhism, Ian Harris........................128

TRANSLATIONA Savior on Earth: The Meaning of Dharmakara Bodhisattva’s

Advent, Soga Ryojin Translated by Jan Van B r a g t ........................157

VIEWS & REVIEWSOf Bashos and Buddhisms, David Landis B arnh ill............................170

BOOK REVIEWSJacqueline I. Stone, Original Enlightenment and

the Transformation o f Medieval Japanese Buddhism (Ruben L. F. H abito)....................................................................... 202

Charles Muller, trans., The Sutra o f Perfect Enlightenment:Korean Buddhism’s Guide to Meditation(Jin Young P a r k ) ........................................................................... 207

CONTRIBUTORS

DAVID Landis Barnhill, Professor, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina

JAN VAN Bragt, Professor Emeritus, Nanzan University, NagoyaFLORIN DELEANU, Professor, Kansai Medical School, OsakaRUBEN L. F. HABITO, Professor, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TexasIAN HARRIS, Reader, St. Martins College, Lancaster, EnglandJIN YOUNG Park, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie,

New YorkLAMBERT SCHMITHAUSEN, Professor, University of Hamburg, HamburgGREGORY SCHOPEN, Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, California

THE EASTERN BUDDHISTFounded in 1921 by D. T. Suzuki and Beatrice Lane

VOLUME 30,2 (1997)Abe Masao, Ethics and Social Responsibility in Buddhism; Judith Snodgrass, The Deployment of Western Philosophy in Meiji Buddhist Revival; William S. Cobb, The Game of Go: An Unexpected Path to Enlightenment; Urs App, St. Francis Xavier’s Discovery of Japanese Buddhism: A Chapter in the European Discovery of 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 of Traditional Dogmatics; Frederick Franck, Upaya: Stratagems of the Great CompassionBOOK 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 of Japanese Buddhism (III), A Chapter in the European Discovery of Buddhism (Part 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 of Masao Abe’s Account of the Problem of Good & Evil from a Western Philosophical Perspective; REVIEW ARTICLE: Richard A. Gardner, Matters of Life and Death: The Middling Way as a New Buddhist Humanism?BOOK REVIEWS

VOLUME 31,2 (1998)Daisetz T. Suzuki, Basic Thoughts Underlying Eastern Ethical and Social Practice (1962); Matteo Cestari, The Knowing Body: Nishida’s Philosophy of Active Intuition (Koiteki chokkan); Kaneko Daiei, Rennyo the Restorer, 2; Perspectives on Self-Emptying: A Zen-Christian Dialogue between Richard J. DeMartino and Kenneth P. Kramer (I, II); The Legacy of Rennyo Shonin: Rennyo Shdnin Itoku-ki. With an introduction by Nabata Toshio; Judith Snodgrass, Retrieving the Past? A Consideration of Texts. Appendix: Shaku Soyen, “Arbitration Instead of War”; William S. Cobb, Nishida on the Freedom of the Will; Joseph S. O 'Leary, The Hermeneutics of Critical Buddhism; REVIEW ARTICLE: Jeff Shore, Abe Masao’s Legacy: Awakening to Reality Through the Death of the Ego and Providing Spiritual Ground for the Modem World.BOOK REVIEWS

VOLUME 32,1 (2000)Luis O. Gomez, Buddhism as a Religion of Hope: Observations on the “Logic of ” a Pure Land Doctrine and its Foundational Myth; Robert F. Rhodes, Imagining Hell: Genshin’s Vision of the Buddhist Hell as found in the Ojoybshii; Trent Collier, Time and Self: Religious Awakening in Dogen and Shinran; Gregory Schopen, The Good Monk and his Money in a Buddhist Monasticism of “The Mahayana Period” ; Soga Ryojin, Shinran’s View of Buddhist History, trans, by Jan Van Bragt with an Introduction by yaswtowi Shin’ya; Dennis Hargiss, Awakening to the High/Retuming to the Low: The Pilgrim’s Ideal in Bashd’s Oku no Hosomichi; REVIEW ARTICLE: Enomoto Fumio, The Discovery of “the Oldest Buddhist Manuscripts.”BOOK REVIEWS

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