On Buddhism
Berserker Books
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$9.52
Size: 5" x 8"
Binding: Perfect Bound
Insight into the Japanese Mind Series.
Keiji Nishitani
"Six lectures by eminent Buddhist thinker Keiji Nishitani reflecting on Buddhism for the modern world.
On Buddhism presents the first English-language translation of a series of lectures by Keiji Nishitani (1900–1990), a major Buddhist thinker and a key figure in the Kyoto School of Japanese philosophy. Originally delivered in the early 1970s, these lectures focus on the transformation of culture in the modern age and the subsequent decline in the importance of the family and religion. Nishitani’s concern is that modernity, with its individualism, materialism, and contractual ethics, is an insufficient basis for human relati ...