Dear Colleagues
We are pleased to
announce the publication of the fourth issue of the Journal of the Oxford Centre
for Buddhist Studies. We enclose a section of the Editorial, together with the
table of contents.
**From the Editorial**
Here I wish to draw
particular attention to three contributions, all of which say something new and
important, making real additions to our knowledge of Buddhism. I think that any
reader can see for themselves that “The Silent Mentors of Tzu Chi” is a
remarkable article. It is remarkable firstly in being both a primary and a
secondary source... the whole is further enhanced by the comments of the author,
himself a prominent member of Tzu Chi. Rey’s article is uplifting. That by Suren
Rāghavan is deeply depressing. Here we overlap with journalism – and Suren has
indeed worked as a journalist – for he is recording the activities of a new
movement which 3 months ago, when he started writing, hardly anyone outside Sri
Lanka had heard of, while now more news, much of it lurid, is appearing on the
Internet every day. But his article is far from ephemeral. He adds to his report
of ongoing events a profound analysis of their background and current context,
leading to a chilling warning of where they seem to be heading. The article by
Brett Shults could hardly be more different, for it deals in painstaking detail
with facts which have been available for over two thousand years – but not
adequately understood.
**Contents**
Editorial.
Richard Gombrich.
Page 5
Early Buddhist and Confucian Concepts of Filial Piety: A
Comparative Study.
Guang Xing. Page 8.
The Silent Mentors of Tzu
Chi.
Rey-Sheng Her. Page 47.
In Search of the Khmer Bhikkhunī: Reading
Between the Lines in Late Classical and Early Middle Cambodia (13th–18th
Centuries).
Trude Jacobsen. Page 75.
Buddhicizing or Ethnicizing the
State: Do the Sinhala Saṅgha Fear Muslims in Sri Lanka? Suren Rāghavan. Page
88.
Brahmanical Terminology and The Straight Way in the Tevijja
Sutta.
Brett Shults. Page 105.
Parmenides and Nāgārjuna: A Buddhist
Interpretation of Ancient Greek Philosophy.
Nathan Tamblyn. Page
134.
Book Review
Reading Buddhist Sanskrit Texts: An Elementary
Grammatical Guide. K.L. Dhammajoti. Reviewed by Brett Shults. Page
147.
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Tomoyuki Kono, MA, DPhil
Production
Manager
Oxford Centre for Buddhist
Studies
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