![]() Often they don’t find it in their own religion.īut when Lassalle began, it must have seemed heretical for Christians to practice Buddhist forms of meditation.īut what did the other missionaries think? I suppose they were indifferent. Meditation is highly developed in Buddhism and modern people are looking for meditation. What makes people interested in Buddhism today? But apart from Lassalle there wasn’t much interest before the council. But tell me, when did you first get interested in Buddhism? Was it before the Second Vatican Council? If that had happened 20 or 30 years ago, there would have been an awful rumpus. A while ago in Sophia University I heard Buddhist monks chanting the sutras during Mass instead of Gregorian chant. Little by little the dialogue is getting under way. Dialogue between nations, dialogue between capital and labor, dialogue between husband and wife–and dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity. In Europe and America scholarly studies of Japanese Buddhism keep appearing….ĭialogue is the great discovery of the 20th century. The meeting of Buddhism and Christianity. What aspect of Buddhism interests you most? I don’t think I’ll ever lose my interest in Buddhism. ![]() ENDO:Īre you still interested in Buddhism, Father? The text was translated from Japanese by Johnston and appeared in volume 172 of America Magazine, published by the National Catholic Review. ![]() The following conversation took place in Tokyo between Shusaku Endo and Father William Johnston, Jesuit priest, Zen Christian and translator of Silence. Extract > Shusaku Endo in conversation with William Johnston Where Buddhism meets Christianity
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