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Philosophy, Buddhist, Philosophy, American--20th century, Philosophy, Comparative, Buddhism--Doctrines.
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1984
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B162.B83 1984eb
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181/.043/0973
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Philosophy, Buddhist, Philosophy, American--20th century, Philosophy, Comparative, Buddhism--Doctrines.
Buddhism and American Thinkers
Edited By Kenneth K. Inada and Nolan P. Jacobson
State University of New York Press ALBANY
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1984 State University of New York
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Buddhism and American thinkers.
Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Philosophy, BuddhistAddresses, essays, lectures. 2. Philosophy, American20th centuryAddresses, essays, lectures. 3. Philosophy, ComparativeAddresses, essays, lectures. 4. BuddhismDoctrinesAddresses, essays, lectures. I. Inada, Kenneth K. II. Jacobson, Nolan Pliny. B162.B831983181'.043'097383-409 ISBN 0-87395-753-9 ISBN 0-87395-754-7 (pbk..)
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Contents
Introduction: The Buddhist-American Encounter in Philosophy
vii
1 Toward a Buddhist-Christian Religion
Charles Hartshorne
1
2 The Width of Civilized Experience
David L. Hall
14
3 A Buddhist Analysis of Human Experience
Nolan P. Jacobson
36
4 Mahayana* Enlightenment in Process Perspective
Jay McDaniel
50
5 The American Involvement With Sunyata:* Prospects
Kenneth K. Inada
70
6 Buddhism and Wieman on Suffering and Joy
David Lee Miller
89
7 Buddhist Logic and Western Thought
Richard S. Y. Chi
111
8 Buddhism and Process Philosophy
Robert C. Neville
120
9 Interrelational Existence
Hajime Nakamura
143
Page vi
Notes
153
Selected Bibliography
167
Index
171
Page vii
Introduction The Buddhist-American Encounter in Philosophy
The essays presented here constitute one kind of answer to the question as to why Buddhism, the last of the great Asiatic schools of thought to reach American shores, has been moving ever deeper into the very substratum of American philosophy, with the result that we find concepts of the self in William James which could have been written by a Buddhist, a concept of Peace in Whitehead which has been called an American formulation of Nirvana*, the ideas of personal identity which were first formulated in the Buddhist "no-soul, no-substance" perspective more than two thousand years ago, and the remark of Charles Hartshorne in this volume that he "was already almost a Buddhist without knowing it long before I had read much about Buddhism or had any habit of relating my thinking to that tradition." Hartshorne acknowledges that for many years he has been "trying to make Buddhism a factor in American thinking." Charles Peirce had preceded him in this, a fact that Hartshorne wishes to emphasize in the title of his essay, the term "Buddhisto-Christian Religion" coming straight from Peirce.
Without knowing it at the time, Hartshorne was already working in ideas that constitute a common core of Buddhist and American philosophy before he took up his work as graduate assistant to Whitehead in the mid-twenties. Ideas out of the broad Buddhist background had actually been a part of the Western tradition for so long that no one would normally have been conscious of his Buddhist origin, and, as Donald Lach says, "no systematic analysts of these materials has so far been undertaken."1 Examples abound. "Point-instants" or "fleeting moments" (khanavada*) travel sub rosa the Eurasian continent from Buddhist beginnings, become a part of the Neo-Confucian synthesis of Chu Hsi (A.D. 1130-1200), and enter the Leibnizian "Monadology" which conceives the world as a vast organism of unextended atomic point-instants, each enjoying its own
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