East-West Encounters in Philosophy and Religion

Summary

The essays in this anthology focus on East-West dialogue in the areas of Person: East and West; Comparative Ethics; Comparative Religion; Indian, Chinese, and Western Thought and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. An insightful book for scholars and students.

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About the Book

The essays in this anthology focus on the East-West dialogue in the areas of Person: East and West, Comparative Ethics, Comparative Religion, Indian, Chinese and Western Thought and Cross Cultural Perspectives. Scholars, such as Ninian Smart, Chad Hansen, Fred Dallmayr, Unto Tahtinen, Robert Ellwood, Barbara Holdredge, Jasper Blystone, M. Akin Makinde, Arthur Ledoux, Kenneth Liberman, Gerhold Becker, K.R. Sundararajan, Joe Wilson, O’Hyun Park, Barry Curtis, P.R. Bhat, Srinivasa Rao, and others, share their thoughts. An insightful book for scholars and students of East-West dialogue.

About the Author(s)

Ninian Smart is J.F.Rowny Professor of Comparative Religions at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was the founder of the Department of Religious Studies at the University and Lanchester. He studied at Oxford University and at Yale. He was Gifford lecturer at the university of Edinburgh and has had visiting professorships at various universities; Banaras Hindu University, Harvard University, University of Hong Kong, and Princeton. He has published numerous books in the areas of Religion and Philosophy: The Religious Experience, The Long Search, The World’s Religions, Doctrine and Argumentation in Indian Philosophy, World Views: Cross Cultural Explorations of Human Beliefs, and Dimensions of the Sacred.

B.Srinivasa Murthy is the founder of the East Meets West Foundation and of Long Beach Publications. He studied at the University of Mysore, India and the University of Mainz, Germany. He received his Ph.D from the University of Mainz and has been the recipient of many scholarly awards including the Alexander Von Humbolt Post- Doctoral Fellowship. He has taught at the Loyola Marymount University, Pepperdine University and California State University, Long beach. He has translated The Bhagavad Gita, Martin Heidegger in Conversation, and has edited Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy Letters. He is also the author of Mother Teresa and India.

Editor's note

In 2001, the world lost an outstanding scholar and champion of East-West dialogue when Professor Ninian Smart suddenly died. I lost a dear friend, as well. Professor Ninian Smart was J.F. Rowney Professor of Religions at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Smart supported me in organizing two international conferences: the first East Meets West Conference in Mysore, India (1991) and the second East Meets West Conference in Long Beach, California (1993). This book is a collection of articles from the Conferences.