PART ONE: Buddhist Approach to Interfaith Dialogue 1 Buddhist-Christian Dialogue: Its Significance and Future Task 3 A Dynamic Unity in Religious Pluralism: A Proposal from the Buddhist Point of View 17 ‘There is No Common Denominator for World Religions’: The Positive Meaning of this Negative Statement 40 The Impact of Dialogue with Christianity on My Self-Understanding as a Buddhist 52 The Problem of Self-Centeredness as the Root-Source of Human Suffering 63 Suffering in the Light of Our Time: Our Time in the Light of Suffering: Buddha’s First Holy Truth 73
PART TWO: Buddhism in Dialogue with Tillich’s Theology 87 Negation in Mahayana Buddhism and in Tillich: A Buddhist View of ‘The Significance of the History of Religion for the Systematic Theologian’ 89 Double Negation as an Essential for Attaining the Ultimate Reality: Comparing Tillich and Buddhism 104 A Response to Professor Langdon Gilkey’s Paper, ‘Tillich and the Kyoto School’ 112 In Memory of Dr. Paul Tillich 120
PART THREE: Buddhism and Contemporary Theology 125 Beyond Buddhism and Christianity — ‘Dazzling Darkness’ 127 Thomas J.J. Altizer’s Kenotic Christology and Buddhism 151 Zen Buddhism and Hasidism — Similarities and Contrasts 159 The Interfaith Encounter of Zen* and Christian Contemplation: A Dialogue between Masao Abe and Keith J. Egan 166 Interfaith Relations and World Peace: A Buddhist Perspective 177 Faith and Self-Awakening: A Search for the Fundamental Category Covering All Religious Life 182 God, Emptiness and Ethics 195 Responses to Langdon Gilkey 205 Spirituality and Liberation: A Buddhist-Christian Conversation (with Paul F. Knitter) 223
