Buddhist Studies from India to America: Essays in Honor of Charles S. Prebish

by Keown; Damien

• ISBN13: 9780415371247
• ISBN10: 0415371244
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book covers four important areas within Buddhist Studies, namely Vinaya Studies and Ethics, the history of Buddhist schools, Western Buddhism, and Inter-religious dialogue. These are the main areas of Charles Prebish's research, whose academic career and professional achievements is celebrated with this volume. Contributors, well-known international scholars, discuss a broad range of academic disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, history, feminism, and sociology.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Prologue	xiv
Bibliography of Charles S. Prebish	xxi
Introduction	1	(8)
PART I Vinaya studies and ethics	9	(62)
Dogen and the precepts, revisited	11	(21)
Steven Heine
Buddhism and the practice of bioethics in the United States	32	(13)
Robert L. Hood
Buddhism: morality without ethics?	45	(11)
Damien Keown
The prospects for a bhiksuni sangha in Tibetan Buddhism	56	(15)
Judith Simmer-Brown
PART II Buddhist traditions	71	(102)
The time of Ojoden: narrative and salvation in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism	73	(16)
Michael Bathgate
The Kutadanta Sutta: tradition in tension	89	(12)
Mavis L. Fenn
Mi-pham's contribution to Yogacara	101	(20)
Leslie Kawamura
Entering the fray	121	(7)
John Daido Loori
Stealth polemics: Tsong kha pa on the difference between sutra and tantra	128	(18)
John Powers
A Note on the term ``citta-matra'' in the Sanskrit Lankavatara Sutra	146	(27)
Reginald A. Ray
PART III Western Buddhism	173	(62)
Creating a focal point for Buddhism in the West: the German Buddhist pioneer Paul Dahlke	175	(16)
Martin Baumann
An object-relations psychology of Zen practice	191	(16)
Franz Metcalf
Two Buddhisms further considered	207	(28)
Paul David Numrich
PART IV Inter-religious dialogue	235	(51)
Celts and contests: sport as peregrination and the athlete as white martyr	237	(13)
Brian Aitken
The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement's double legacy	250	(10)
George D. Bond
The genesis of all our dependently arisen histories: the divine plan of creation	260	(10)
John P. Keenan
The ecumenical vision of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu and his dialogue with Christianity	270	(16)
Donald K. Swearer
Index	286