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Spirituality and Liberation: A Buddhist-Christian Conversation. - II A Buddhist Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

Masao Abe
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Editorial Symposium
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Horizons , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , Fall 1988 , pp. 350 - 354
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Copyright © The College Theology Society 1988

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References

1 Shin'ichi Hisamatsu (1889-1980), Professor of Buddhism at Kyoto University in Japan. See Abe, Masao, “Hisamatsu's Philosophy of Awakening,” The Eastern Buddhist 14 (1981), 26–42Google Scholar and “Hisamatsu Shin'ichi, 1889-1980,” The Eastern Buddhist 14 (1981), 142–49.Google Scholar

2 A Zen association established in 1944, Gakudō dōjō literally means “the place for learning and practicing the way.”

3 Abe, Masao, “Sovereignty Rests with Mankind” in Zen and Western Thought (New York: Macmillan; Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985), pp. 249–60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar This essay was inspired by Hisamatsu's idea of true sovereignty.

4 Abe, Masao, “A History of the FAS Zen Society,” FAS Newsletter, Autumn 1984, pp. 1–12.Google Scholar

5 Hisamatsu, Shin'ichi, Zen and the Fine Arts (Kodansha International, 1975), pp. 18-19, 45–52.Google Scholar

6 Hisamatsu, Shin'ichi, “Ultimate Crisis and Resurrection,” The Eastern Buddhist 8 (1975), 64.Google Scholar

7 Ibid.

8 Bodhisattva's “Four Great Vows” read as follows: However innumerable beings are, I vow to save them; however inexhaustible the passions are, I vow to extinguish them; however immeasurable the Dharma are, I vow to master them; however incomparable the Buddha-truth is, I vow to attain it.