September–October 2005, Volume 32
Spirituality and Development
From the Advisor’s Desk
Women in Contemporary Japanese Religion and Society
by Michio T. Shinozaki
Reflections
All Are Precious
by Nichiko Niwano
The Buddhist Community: An Ideal Society
by Nikkyo Niwano
Essays
Spirituality and Development: Relating Social Action and Religious Consciousness
by John Clammer
Shakyamuni’s Aim, as Revealed by Early Buddhist Scriptures
by Shoji Mori
These sources are the only clues we have to the Buddha’s life and thought, since he left no writings of his own, even though they may be colored by the viewpoints of later generations.
The Path to Peace as Seen in Mahayana Buddhism
by Makio Takemura
The author sees a peaceful society as one in which all people can be their own protagonists, as it were, and can fully achieve self-realization.
Symposium Address
No Clash, but Dialogue among Religions and Nations
by Hans Kung
This article is the text of the keynote address delivered in May at the Niwano Peace Foundation Symposium in Kyoto by the recipient of the 22nd Niwano Peace Prize.
The Stories of the Lotus Sutra
The Divine Powers of a Buddha
by Gene Reeves
The divine powers of a Buddha are said to be ten in all, five having to do with the past, and five with the future, the latter being understood as consequences of the former being widely implemented.
Conference Reports
The Lotus Sutra and Tendai
by Stephen Covell
Stephen Covell is an assistant professor at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, teaching comparative religion. Until the summer of 2003 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo, where he was working on a project concerning Buddhism and morals education in Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2001. He is the author of Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation (University of Hawaii Press).
Essay
Exploring the Methods of Socially Engaged Buddhism
by Jonathan Watts
Gotama Buddha (74)
The Beginnings of the Buddha’s Deification (2)
by Hajime Nakamura
In the final installment of his distinguished biography, the author describes in detail the process by which Gotama came to be seen more as a deity with supernatural powers and less as a man.
