CONTRIBUTORSTHE JOURNAL OF ORIENTAL STUDIES
Editorial Advisory Board
Yoichi Kawada
Hirofumi Koseki
The Journal of Oriental Studies (ISSN 0915-5309) is published annually by the Instituteof Oriental Philosophy. The Journal publishes research papers and studies in these
thematic areas: the universality of thought in the Lotus Sutra, comparative studies ofWestern and Eastern philosophies, the life sciences and religion, human rights andreligion, women and religion, environmental issues and religion, and the role of religion
in social ethics.
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Journal of Oriental Studies or the Institute of Oriental Philosophy.
Established in 1962, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy has directed research in thehistory, literature, and concepts of Buddhism and other religions; hosted a series ofsymposia and public lectures: co-sponsored international exhibitions of rare Buddhist
manuscripts; published Lotus Sutra manuscripts; and created academic exchange programswith other research institutes. Its special collections include primary sources in Indian,Chinese and Japanese thought and several language versions of the classic Buddhist canon.

Daisaku Ikeda
President, Soka Gakkai International, JapanGu MingyuanPresident, The Chinese Society of Education,
China
Mushirul Hasan
Director General, National Archives ofIndia, India
Minoru Harada
President, Soka Gakkai, Japan
Lokesh Chandra
Director, International Academy of Indian
Culture, India
Oskar von Hinüber
Professor Emeritus, University of Freiburg,
Germany
Carlos Rubio
Professor, The Complutense University ofMadrid, Spain
Yoichi Kawada
Director, The Institute of Oriental
Philosophy (IOP), Japan
Hiroshi Kanno
Professor, Soka University, Japan
Senior Research Fellow, IOP, Japan
Halle Elizabeth O’Neal
Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow
2012-2013, Reischauer Institute,Harvard University, USA
Max Deeg
Professor, Cardiff University, UK
Axinia Džurova
Professor, Sofia University, Bulgaria
President of the “Helena and Ivan Dujcev”
Foundation, Bulgaria

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Emil Ivanov
Associate Professor, Sofia University,
Bulgaria
Connie Lasher
Founder and Ex-Executive Director,
John Paul II Institute for Theology &Environmental Studies, USA● This article first appeared in Toyo Gakujutsu

Kenkyu (The Journal of Oriental Studies), Vol.492, in Japanese.
Daisaku Ikeda, Gu Mingyuan,“Humane Education, A Bridge to Peace (4)”,pp.4-51● These four articles first appeared in Gilgit Lotus

Sutra Manuscripts from the National Archives ofIndia, Facsimile Edition.
Mushirul Hasan,“Preface”, pp.ix-xii
Minoru Harada,“Preface”, pp.xiii-xviii
Lokesh Chandra,“Foreword”, pp.xxv-xxxiv
Oskar von Hinüber,“The Saddharmapun.d.arı-kasu-tra at Gilgit:
Manuscripts, Worshippers, and Artists”,
pp.xxxv-lvii● These seven articles first appeared in ToyoGakujutsu Kenkyu (The Journal of OrientalStudies), Vol.51-1, in Japanese.
Yoichi Kawada,“Contemporary Civilization and the Lotus
Sutra”, pp.254-281
Hiroshi Kanno,“Saddharma and the One Buddha Vehicle inthe Lotus Su-tra”, pp.282-293
Halle Elizabeth O’Neal,“Continental Origins and Culture of Copying:
An Examination of the Prototypes andTextualized Community of the Japanese
Jeweled-Stu-pa Mandalas”, pp.294-316
Max Deeg,“From Scholarly Object to Religious Text –the Story of the Lotus-su-tra in the West”,
pp.317-343
Daisaku Ikeda,“Message” to the Symposium in Bulgaria,
pp.202-205
Axinia Džurova,“Once Again about the Iconography of
Bulgarian Rulers Prince Boris (Knyaz Boris)
and King Simeon (Tsar Simeon) – 9th-10thCentury”, pp.206-224
Emil Ivanov,“Iconographic Interpretations of Theological
Themes in Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
and in St. Gregory Palamas and the Receptionof these Themes by Meister Eckhart”, pp.225253