Because modern Chinese Buddhist thinkers chose to revive the Wei-shih (Consciousness Only) Philosophy, they have wagered on a contrast between Western "outer learning" and Eastern "inner learning," each being equally "scientific." It proves less engaging than the strategy of the Kyoto School which pitted Oriental Nothingness against European Ontotheology,Zen intuition vs. scientific analysis. But recently the exchange between Kyoto philosophers and American Process theologians has turned more to finding a common ground in a Hua-yen-esque interpretation of pratitya-samutpada (interdependent origination). That makes for greater Chinese Buddhist input. But there is a promising new departure from a Hong Kong Buddhist scholar and an interesting Post-Structuralist and Deconstructionist reading of Zen/Ch'an in the United States.
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Summary 1 Back to the Future: Rediscovering Summa Buddhologica 2 Process and Pratitya-samutpada: The American Conversation 3 A New Set of Perfect Harmonies from Chinese Thought Proper 4 Derrida and Zen,Myth and Metaphor, and the Science of Fiction