Masao Abe

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Abe, M.

FirstName / namefirst Masao
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Full Name

Masao Abe[1] 阿部 正雄 1915 – September 10, 2006

Affiliation

Education

Other Information

Masao Abe was a Japanese academic in comparative religion (concluding as emeritus professor at Nara University), and a Buddhist philosopher.[2] His mature views were developed within the Kyoto School of philosophy founded by Kitaro Nishida. Hence his interest in, and ability to compare and contrast, Buddhism and Christianity. "Since the death of D. T. Suzuki in 1966, Masao Abe has served as the main representative of Zen Buddhism in Europe and North America."[3][4]

Source

  1. While Masao may in fact be his last name, the library of congress and almost all other print media treats Abe as the last name, so we follow this convention here on the DRL.
  2. Fredericks, James. "In Memoriam: Masao Abe (1915-2006).", in Buddhist-Christian Studies (Univ.of Hawaii 2007) Issue 27, at 139-140. Accessed on August 24, 2007.
  3. Christopher Ives, "Introduction" at xiii-xix, xiii, in The Emptying God. A Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Conversation (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books 1990), edited by John B. Cobb, Jr. and Christopher Ives.
  4. "Masao Abe has been the leading philosophical exponent of Zen to the West since the death of D. T. Suzuki." John Hick, in his "Forward" at ix, to Masao Abe, Zen and Western Thought (Univ.of Hawaii 1975), edited by William R. LaFleur.

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