This collection of essays from the Sixth Conference of the European Network of Buddhist–Christian Studies contains autobiographical accounts, historical research, and empirical data on the problem of “multiple religious belonging” in Buddhism and Christianity. Its centerpiece is an exchange between P. Williams, Professor of Indian and Buddhist Philosophy at the University of Bristol, and J. Cabezón, the XIV Dalai Lama Chair in Tibetan Buddhism at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Cabezón, a Roman Catholic convert to Tibetan Buddhism, offers a perceptive criticism of Williams's account of his conversion from Tibetan Buddhism to Roman Catholicism. Not to be outdone, Williams is happy to provide an “only partially repentant” rejoinder to Cabezón's criticism. Their exchange, which very well might be unique in the history of Buddhist–Christian dialogue, shows the great importance that both Tibetan Buddhism and Roman Catholicism give to epistemology and metaphysics in establishing their respective claims. These two essays make quite a contrast to the “being Buddhist, being Christian, being both, being neither” approach so often taken in such discussions. (See, for example, R. Habito's article in this collection.) It is refreshing that both Williams and Cabezón, like Tsongkhapa himself, recognize that the tetralemma requires additional modal operators, and especially so when one's religious identity is at stake.
