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Buddhist-Confucian Dialogue: A Contribution to the Comparative Philosophy of Religion

by Doil Kim , Leah Kalmanson
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9783032145666
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
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  • Pages: 249
  • Original Price: EUR 141.69
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Religious

This volume offers a fresh exploration of the enduring dialogue between Confucianism and Buddhism, two traditions that have profoundly shaped East Asian thought. Reviving an exchange long neglected in modern scholarship, it proposes a new comparative approach in the philosophy of religion--a way of understanding how these traditions have long coexisted through seeming opposition, continually shaping, challenging, and enriching each other's visions of truth and virtue.

Contributors examine diverse encounters where Buddhist and Confucian thinkers debated life and death, emotion and morality, self-cultivation and governance, while finding inspiration across traditions. Through discussions of ethics, political order, meditation, music, and humility, the chapters reveal how this dialogue generated creative syntheses that transformed both traditions over time. Together, they show that the interplay between Buddhism and Confucianism remains a living source of insight into the cultivation of virtue and human flourishing today.

Doil Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy, and Korean Philosophy at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. He directs the Center for the Contemporary Study of East Asian Classics and Critical Confucianism, supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea, and leads the Brain Korea 21 FOUR program, funded by the Ministry of Education, Korea. He also serves as editor of the Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture and is the author of The Art of Seeing Beyond Oneself: A Confucian Perspective on Humility (OUP, 2025).

Leah Kalmanson is Associate Professor and Bhagwan Adinath Professor of Jain Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. She is author of Local Gods: A Philosophy of Spiritual Diversity (Columbia, 2026), Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought (Bloomsbury, 2020), and co-author with Monika Kirloskar Steinbach of A Practical Guide to World Philosophies: Selves, Worlds, and Ways of Knowing (Bloomsbury, 2021).

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