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IOP Neewsletter No
o.1 covers tthe news off events andbooks published during thee period ofo March tot
December 2014.

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AAnnuaalConnferennce

The 29
9th IOP A
Annual Conference:“The Possib
bility of BuddhiB
sm for the Future of H
Humankkind”

Thhe Institute oof OrientalPhhilosophy (IOaOP) holds annualcoonferences iin March, at which
thee IOP reseaarchers pressent theirstu
udy results of the year.. The
Ins
stitute sponnsors sympo
osiumswith keynote sspeakers frrom
Jaapan and ovverseas cov
veringtheemes relateed to peace, theennvironment, women’s studies,shuuman rights,, religion, bioethicsannd various oother topics.

On March 22 and 23
3, 2014, thee IOP hosteed

con
ncentrate on purifying one’s own mind andthe 29th A
Annual Confference on the
t theme oofconnduct.

“The Possibility of Bud
ddhism for thet Future oof
Humankindd” at Sokaa Universitty in Tokyoo,Following thee keynote lecture, Dr.
D SurenJapan.

Rāāghavan, Se
enior Fellow
w in Politica
al Scienceat OCBS dellivered his lecture tittled, “(De)At the sym
mposium heldhon Maarch 22, thheethhnicizing Bu
uddhism forr a Globaliz
zed WorldF.

Ordder.” He strressed thatt the urgent need for

Gombrich, Founder-P
President of the Oxforrd

conntemporary Buddhism
m to be ab
ble to live

Centre

(OCBS
S)

abo
ove its imm
mediate eth no national identities

delivered a keynote leecture. In his speech, hheandd engage withw issues cconcerning the whole

noted that what is neeeded is nott that peop leof humanity.
h

guest

of

honor,

foor

P
Professor

Buddh
hist

RichardStudieesshould lea
arn to love their enem
mies, but thaat
HHe

Dr. Katsuaki OhnishO
and Dr. Mikio Matsuoka,Malemphasizeed that Buddhism has the potentia

Re
esearch Fellows of the IOP, deliverred theirto help mankind survvive if it caan persuaddespeeeches, title
ed “Multicultturalism, Po
ost-people too abandon their obs
session witthseccularism and the Budd hist Worldvview” andrighting pa
ast wrongs, and instead
d to

“Bu
uddhism and Absolute Pacifism.”

they

sho
ould

stop

hatingthem.

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On April 13
3, 2014, a coonference co-sponsorcredby the IOP, Soka Gakk
kai Malaysia
a (SGM) andersityd the Unives Centre fo
or Civilisational Dialog
gue (UMCC
CD) was heeld at SGM’’s Wisma Kebudayaan
Knof Malaya’s
Culture Ce
enter on th
he theme of “Peace and Harm
monious Co
oexistence——an Islamic–Buddhis
stDialogue.” The event was suppo
orted by thhe Department of National Unity and Integrration in thester's Depa
artment.
Malaysian Prime MinisAt
A the confe
erence, a ke
eynote addrress wasdelivereddbyy Y.B. Tan Sri
S Datuk Seri Panglim
maJosephJ
Kuru
up, Ministerr in the Primme Minister' s
Department
D
t. In his spe
eech, he ack
knowledged
d the
need
n
for inte
erfaith dialoogues amonng the manyy
religionsrin M
Malaysia ass they were imperativee ingeneratinggmmutual undeerstanding and respecct

He noted that peace begiins within the individua
al

hat a
among
a
followers of anyy religions. He added th

by ensuring th
hat he or she is pe
eaceful. Th
hedialoguedshould be sinccere with th
he aim ofmodderator, Asssociate Proffessor Dr. Faridah
F
Noo
or

strengtheninsng the commmunity, rath
her than serrving

Moh
hd Noor, Director of UM
MCCD, alsoo highlighte
ed

only
o
one grooup’s own narrowninterrests. Dr.

that Islam is a religion of ppeace and that in ordeerMohammadMd Ismath Ra
amzy, a Res
search Felloow atto havehpeacee, there mmust be peeace at thhe

UMCCD,
Uga
ave a talk from an Islam
mic perspecctive.

indiv
vidual levell as well aas at the soocietal leveel.
Proffessor Datoo' Dr. Chrristopher Boey
B
Chion
ng
Men
ng, Deputy Dean of thhe Universitty of Malayya
Faculty of Med
dicine, whoo is also ana Oversea
asRes
search Fello
ow of the IO
OP, gave a speech fromma Buddhist perrspective. H
He said that dialogue isthe very tradition of B
Buddhism andaall th
he
foun
nders

of theworld 'sreligions.

Genuinnedialoogue, in his
s opinion, is the first step to tru
uefrien
ndship.

Y.B.
Y Tan Sri Datuk Seri PanglimaPJooseph Kuru p

From left: Dr. Ism
math Ramzy,, Assoc Proff. Dr. Farida
ah Noor and Prof. Dr. Ch
hristopher Boey
B

３

“T
The Lotus S
Sutra–Messsage of Pea
ace and Harrmonious CoexistenceCe” exhibitioon was spo
onsored bythhe IOP. While introduccing how Buddhism, w
which origiinated in In
ndia, spreadd widely ac
cross Asiaannd other pa
arts of the world,w
the exhibitionefofocuses on the message of peacee and coex
xistence astaaught in thee Lotus Sutrra. To date,, the exhibi tion has toured 12 countries andd territoriess and morethhan 400,000 people hav
ve viewed it.

Exhib
bition held in Kuala L
Lumpur, MaalaysiaF
From Febru
uary 15 to May 18, thee Lotus Su
utra exhibitioonw
was held att Soka Gakkai Malaysiia's Wisma Kebudayaaan
C
Culture Ce
enter. Malaysia is thee first Mus
slim majority
ccountry to hosththis exhhibition. Thee opening ce
eremony wa
asaattended byb 470 vis
sitors and distinguis
shed guestts,
iincluding YB
Y Tan Sri Datuk Paanglima Jo
oseph Kuru
up,
M
Minister inn the Prime Ministter's Depa
artment an
ndP
Professor. Lokesh
LCha
andra, Vicee-President of the India
anC
Council for Cultural Relations. M
More than 70,000 peopplevviewed the exhibition.
ExhibitionE
heldhin Hokkkaido, Jap
panF
From Octob
ber 5 to Nov
vember 3, tthe exhibitioon was helddaat the Hokkaido Ikeda Hall in Sappporo, Japan
n. Some 175
5ppeople attended the official open ing, including Mr. Tengg
A
Anjun fromm the Connsulate-Genneral of th
he People'ssR
Republic ofo China in
n Sapporoo and Mr. Andrey A.
AF
Fabrichnikoov from the Consulate-G
General of the RussiannF
Federation in Sapporo. On exhibitt were som
me 150 itemss
iincluding reeproductions of Lotuss Sutra manuscripts innS
Sanskrit, Kh
hotan Saka, Uighur, Chhinese, Tangut, Tibetannaand Mongolian.
First Exhhibition held in Bueno
os Aires, Argentina
A
F
From Septe
ember 25 to October 6, the exhibition was heldaat the Unive
ersidad del Salvador (UUSAL). At th
he opening
cceremony, Mr.
M Daisaku
u Ikeda, fouunder of the IOP andppresident off the Soka Gakkai
GInterrnational, wasw awardedda commend
dation from the Universsidad del Sa
alvador in
rrecognition of his contrribution to thhe developm
ment ofO
Oriental studies and his efforts to spread a phhilosophy ofoppeace throu
ughout the world.
w

Second ExhibitionE
heldhin Bueenos Aires, ArgentinaaF
From November 22 too 29, the exxhibition wa
as held at theN
National Un
niversity off Tucumán (UNT). Th
he exhibitioon,jjointly hoste
ed by the IO
OP, El Centrro de Estud
dios de AsiaayÁÁfrica (Thee Center for Asian annd African Studies),S
andS
SGI-Argentina celebrated UNT’s 1100th anniv
versary. Aliccia
B
Bardónand,, chancelloor of UNT
T, and Lilia
ana Palacio,ddirector of The Centeer for Asiaan and Afriican Studiees,aattended the opening ceremony.
c
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PUBLICPCLEC
CTUREESTo
T widelyy disseminnate the resultsr
off academic studiess, the IOP
P holds pu
ublic
lectures e
every fall andainvites researchhers fromm many fields such aas philoso
ophy
anda Pi thougght, peacee, environment, hum
man rightss and bioe
ethics. In 2014, thee IOPhosted p
public lecture serie
es under the title
e, "The PathP
Towaard A Global
Civilizatio
on."“

TTHE PATTH TOWA
ARD A GGLOBAL CIVILIIZATIONN”◆The
eme: “A Porttrait of the Global
G
Civiliization: Fromthee Perspectiv
ve of the Co
omparative S
Study ofCivvilizations an
nd Culturess”◆Speeaker: Dr. GoroG
Yoshizaawa (Visitinng professorr,
Cennter for the Comparativ
ve Study off Civilizationns
andd Cultures)◆Date
e: Tuesday,, Septembeer 16, 2014

◆Theme:: “A Societyy Based on Life”◆Speakeer: Dr. Keikoo Nakamuraa (Director G
General,JT Biohhistory Reseearch Hall)◆Date: T
Tuesday, Se
eptember 30
0, 2014◆Venue: Nippon Seinen Kaikann (Shinjuku,, Tokyo)
C◆The
eme: “Factor five – Towwards globall sustainability
throough doing muchmmore with much less”◆Speeaker: Dr. CherylCDeshaa (Senior Leecturer on
Susstainable De
evelopment, Science a nd Enginee
ering
Facculty, Queen
nsland Unive
ersity of Tecchnology)◆Date
e: Thursdayy, October 2,2 2014◆Theme:: “The Earthh System annd Civilizati on”◆Speakeer: Dr. Takannori Matsui (Director, P
Planetary
Exploraation Reseaarch Center))◆Date: T
Thursday, October 16, 2014
2

◆The
eme: “Globa
al Civilization and the LLife Value
Ecoonomic Systtem”◆Speeaker: Dr. Setsuo Yamaaki (Honoraary Professoor,
Toyoo Universityy)◆Date
e: Tuesday,, Novemberr 11, 2014

５

.

A Lec
cture by Y. Bhg. Datu
uk Nik Mu
ustaphabin Niik Hassan◆Titlee: “Civilisational Apprroach to Ec
conomic
Devvelopment: An Islamicc Perspecttive”◆Venue: Hotel Villa
V Fontaaine Shiodoome(Tokkyo, Japan)◆Date
e: June 3, 2014
The Instiitute of Islam
mic Unders
standing Ma
alaysia (IKIM
M) was founnded by form
mer Prime MinisterMof Malayysia Mahathhir Bin Moh
hamad. Y. B
Bhg. Datuk Nik Mustap
pha bin Nikk Hassan, Director
D
General of IKIM, wa
as a Visitingg Fellow at tthe Oxford CentreC
for Isslamic Studdies, and se
erved asDean of the Faculty of Econo
omics and M
Managemen
nt at the In
nternational Islamic Un
niversity
Malaysia
a. In his leccture, he explained th
hat Islam beelieves thatt the stabiliity of the wholew
iscontinge
ent upon bo
oth the material and sspiritual well-being of Man
M and emmphasized that all
human bbeings are interrelated
d and interd
dependent, and that reeligions tea ch us to bee loving
and caring toward others.
oThu
us all religio
ons should cooperate and work ttogether to resolve
economiic disparity.

A Lectu
ure by Dr. MohamedMd Fauzi Yaa
acob◆Title: ““Embracingg Pluralism
m: A Commmentary
on an Initiative”◆Venuee: The IOP
P◆Date: July 1, 2014
Professoor Dr. Mohamed Fauzi Yaacob, Fo
ormer Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Scie
ence,
Universitty of Malaya
a, had beenn a fellow att Harvard UniversityUannd London S
School of
Economics and Political Scienc
ce. In his sp
peech, Proff. Dr. Yaacob introduceed an Arabicc term,wasatiyyyah, which is often translated in En
nglish as moderation, balance,bjusstice or excellence,and urge
ed that the wasatiyyahw
movement be accepte
ed internatio
onally to avooid religioussextremissm. He also addressed the importa
ance of promoting dialoogue, mutu al respect,understaanding and acceptancee among difffferent religions, culture
es, races annd ethnicitie
es tofoster a mmore inclussive, sustain
nable and eequitable society.

A Lec
cture by Ms. Shobhaana Radha
akrishna◆Titlee “Mahatma Gandhi E
Ethical Lea
adershipand Transformmational Chhange”◆Vennue: The IOOP◆Date
e: July 1, 20142
Ms. Shobbhana Radh
hakrishna, PresidentP
off Centre forr Gandhian VisionV& Vaalues, spentt part ofher life inn Gandhi’s Sewagram Ashram in Wardha annd has dedicated her liife to the ca
ause ofrural devvelopment tot serve the poor andd underpriviileged communities. Inn her lecture, Ms.
Radhakriishna stresssed how Ga
andhi demo
onstrated tha
at non-viole
ence was noot a passivee, weakforce, but an active forceffull of possibility, and that this force nee
eded to be aapplied to differentdfields.
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The Lotus S
Sutra, whichh from earlyy times has been called
d “the king ofo sutras,” iss the vital element of
humanity’s shared spirritual heritage. In orderr to study thhe origin of its philosopphy and asc
certain its
course of development over tim
me, the IOP
P and the SokaSGakk
kai have beeen involve
ed in thepublicationss of the Lotus Sutra Manuscrip
pt Series inn cooperation with accademic institutions
around thee world. To date, the IOP has ppublished Sanskrit
S
Lottus Sutra F
Fragments from the
Lushun Mu
useum Colleection, Facs
simile Editio
on and Rom
manized Text (1997) andd 15 other works.
w
The romanizedr
texttof Sansskrit paper Manuscript
M
from the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, India
I(No.
oing Lotus
4079) is the fourrteenth partt of the ongo
Sutra
a Manuscrip
pt series. Thhis record showssthat
this manuscriptm
was transscribed in 1680 CE,
indicaating that itt is the oldeest paper manuscriptmamon
ng those cu
urrently acccessible. ThisT
is thevery firstf
Nepaleese paper m
manuscript thattmarks
the beginningbofo the periood of copy
ying papermanuuscripts ove
er 400 yearrs after thee period of
copyiing Nepalese palm-leaaf manuscrripts (fromca. thhe 11th through the 12tth centuries). It is thus
an immportant ma
anuscript, w
which repre
esents thefountainhead off the papeer manusc
cripts thatwould
d follow thereafter.

I l i Lectures
L t
Islamic

From April through J
July, 2014, the IOP hosted
hlecctures onIsslam to pro
omote inte
ercultural and interrreligious dialogue.
The IOP inv
vited four prominen
nt experts on Islam..

■First Lecturre:“Inndividuality in Islamic P
Philosophy””
Byy Dr. Tsuyoshi Kobaya
ashi(L
Lecturer at Meiji
M Gakuinn Universityy)■S
Second Lec
cture:“F
From Plotinu
us to the Mo
outh of Barzzakh”
Byy Dr. Horie Satoshi(L
Lecturer at Internationa
al Christian University)■T
Third Lecture:“Isslam and Buddhism”
Byy Dr. Shigeru Kamada(P
Professor att the Institutte for Advan
nced Studie
es on Asia)■Fourth Lectture:“‘O
Orthodoxy’ in Modern S
Sunni Islam
m: Religious Discoursess in Saudi
Arabia and Syria”
S
Byy Dr. Kenichiro Takao(C
Collaborativ
ve Fellows aat the Sophiia University
y Institute oof Asian
Cultures)７

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Toyo Gakuj
ujutsuKenkyu vol. 53, No.2
(Published biannually))

The Jou
urnal of Orie
ental
Studies, Vol.24(Publish
hed annually)

This journa
al covers noot
only Buddh
hist thoughtt,
but also va
ariouscurrent issu
ues related
to peace, humanhrights, wom
men’s
studies, theeenvironment, bioethicss
and inter-re
eligious
dialogue.

The first volume waaspublisheed in July 1987.
This is thet English
languagge edition off Toyo
Gakujuttsu Kenkyu,, fromwhich selected articles are
publisheed in Englissh.

Toyo Tetsu
ugaku
Kenkyujo Kiyo
K
(Bulletiinof the Instittute ofOriental Ph
hilosophy)
vol.30 (Nott available ffor
purchase)

Guide book:b
Hokekkyoten--Heiwa to Kyossei no
Messeijji (Guide bo
ook:"The Lootus Sutra–A
A
Messagge of Peacee andHarmonnious
Coexisttence" Exhib
bition)The first vo
olume waspublished ini Decembe
er1985. This bulletinsummarize
es annualresearch and projectss
carried outt by IOP
researcherrs.

Main Publlications:■ Ningennshugi no H
Hata Wo: Kanyo,KJihi, Taiwa(The Hummanist Pririnciple: Co
ompassion andTolerance)), by Daisaaku Ikeda andaFelix Unger
U(2007)■ Jinkenn no Seiki eno Messeiji: Dai sa
an noSennen ni Nani ga Hiitsuyou Ka (Message forf theHRighhts: What Does the Third
Age of Human
Millenniumm Require??), by Daissaku Ikeda
a andAdolfo Pérrez Esquiveel (2009)■ Heiwa noo Kakehashhi: Ningen Kyoiku
K
wo Kataru
K(Humane Education,, A Bridgee to Peacee), byDaisaku Ikkeda and Guu Mingyuann (2012)

Kyoiku--Niingen no
Kanosei wo
w
Shinjite--D
Daijo Bukkyo
ono Chouseen (AChallenge for
Mahayanaa Buddhism )vol. 9８

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