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Together, Daisaku Ikeda and Josef Derbulav explore a wide range of topics, starting with a discussion of the tension between tradition and modernization in Japan and elsewhere. They compare humanism in East and West, and Buddhism and Christianity. Focusing on the crucial topic of education, they consider the roles of ethics and religion, and zero in on concrete problems and issues: education and political authority, absenteeism, violence in schools,...
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Explores, in lucid, meditative prose, the crossroads of compassion and holiness at which contemplative Christianity and Buddhism meet.
Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over the course of two millennia. If they were to meet on the road today, what would each think of the other's spiritual views and...
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Four prominent Buddhist scholars, Norman Fischer, a Zen prest; Joseph Goldstein, cofounder of the Insight Mediation Society, Judith Simmer-Brown, Buddist Studies program at Naropa University and Yifa, and Fo Guang a nun from Shan Monastery in Tawian discuss and debate the Saint Benedict's Rule that still govern and regulates daily life in a Christian monastery. The personal anecdotes and debates reveal the wisdom and many similarities between their...
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