Table of Contents

PART 1: BUDDHIST APPROACH TO INTERFAITH DIALOGUE - Buddhist-Christian Dialogue: Its Significance and Future Task - A Dynamic Unity in Religious Pluralism: A Proposal from the Buddhist Point of View - 'There is No Common Denominator for World Religions': The Positive Meaning of this Negative Statement - The Impact of Dialogue with Christianity on My Self-Understanding as a Buddhist - The Problem of Self-Centeredness as the Root-Source of Human Suffering - Suffering in the Light of Our Time: Our Time in the Light of Suffering: Buddha's First Holy Truth - PART 2: BUDDHISM IN DIALOGUE WITH TILLICH'S THEOLOGY - Negation in Mahayana Buddhism and in Tillich: A Buddhist View of 'The Significance of the History of Religion for the Systematic Theologian' - Double Negation as an Essential for Attaining the Ultimate Reality: Comparing Tillich and Buddhism - In Memory of Dr Paul Tillich - A Response to Professor Langdon Gilkey's Paper, 'Tillich and the Kyoto School' - PART 3: BUDDHISM AND CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY - Beyond Buddhism and Christianity: 'Dazzling Darkness' - Thomas J.J. Altizer's Kenotic Christology and Buddhism - Zen Buddhism and Hasidism: Similarities and Contrasts - The Interfaith Encounter of Zen and Christian Contemplation: A Dialogue between Masao Abe and Keith J.Egan - Interfaith Relations and World Peace: A Buddhist Perspective - Faith and Self-Awakening: A Search for the Fundamental Category Covering All Religious Life - God, Emptiness and Ethics - Responses to Langdon Gilkey - Spirituality and Liberation: A Buddhist-Christian Conversation - Index