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Expanding Catholicity – the Dialogue with Buddhism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Michael Barnes SJ
Michael Barnes SJ*
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Heythrop College, Kensington Square, London
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m.barnes@heythrop.ac.uk
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New Blackfriars , Volume 88 , Issue 1016 , July 2007 , pp. 399 - 409
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Journal compilation © The Dominican Council/Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2007, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA

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References

1 As yet unpublished by David Flint.

2 Nostra Aetate, The Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions 2; from Tanner, Norman (ed), Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, London: Sheed and Ward; 1990Google Scholar.

3 For a straightforward account of sassatavada and ucchedavada in the Theravada tradition see Walpola Rahula's celebrated study, What the Buddha Taught, Bedford: Gordon Fraser; 1967Google Scholar; and for a fascinating commentary from a Christian theologian see D'Silva, Lynn, The Problem of the Self in Buddhism and Christianity, London: Macmillan; 1979CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 From rTsa she tik chen rigs pa'i rgya mysho, Sarnath: 1973; p 431Google Scholar. Quoted by Stephen Batchelor in ‘The Other Enlightenment Project’, from King, Ursula (ed), Faith and Praxis in a Post-Modern Age, London:Cassells; 1998Google Scholar.

5 The most detailed account of the formation of the document is by John Oesterreicher in Herbert Vorgrimler (ed), Commentary on the Documents of Vatican II, Volume III, pp 1-154. For a more recent account see Alberigo, Giuseppe (ed), History of Vatican II, Maryknoll: Orbis; 1995-Google Scholar.

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7 Quoted in Pro Dialogo (bulletin of Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue) 102, 1999, p 343.

8 See especially Hugo Enomiya Lassalle, Zen Meditation for Christians, Open Court; 1974.

9 Dumoulin, H., A History of Zen Buddhism, London: Faber; 1963Google Scholar.

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13 See McInnes, Elaine, Zen Contemplation for Christians:a Bridge of Living Water, Sheed and Ward, 2003Google Scholar.

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15 Available at http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org.

16 See Panikkar, Raimon, The Silence of God: the Answer of the Buddha, Orbis: 1989Google Scholar; especially pp 148ff.