Project
title:
Japanese Pure Land Buddhist Thought and the Natural Sciences: Defining
the Central Issues.
Short
biography:
Dr.
Takeda has spent most of his academic life researching the Pure Land
Buddhist teachings of Shinran, Western philosophy, Buddhist thought,
inter-religious dialogue and religious pluralism. He has published
a doctoral dissertation on Shinran's Pure Land Buddhism and Nishida's
Philosophy and comparative studies on Whiteheadian and Mahayana Buddhist
philosophy and the philosophies of Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu. Subsequently
he was invited to give an address at the Silver Anniversary International
Whitehead Conference in 1998 which was attended by three hundred scientists,
physicians, economists, and scholars of religion, including three
Nobel prize winners. He is presently Director of the Center for Humanities,
Science and Religion at Ryukoku University in Kyoto.
