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Contents Religion East & West Editorial Board ........................................................................iv Contributors to This Issue................................................................................................ v Socially Engaged Buddhism and the Trajectory of Buddhist Ethical Consciousness Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi ................................................................................................. 1 In Search of an Authentic Engaged Buddhism Raoul Birnbaum...................................................................................................... 25 Buddhas behind the Razor Wire Hozan Alan Senauke .............................................................................................. 41 Borges, Buddhism, and Cognitive Science Amelia Barili............................................................................................................ 47 Peace Practices among the Iroquois Douglas George-Kanentiio. ................................................................................... 59 A Hindu Monk's Appreciation of Eastern Orthodoxy's Jesus Prayer Joseph Molleur......................................................................................................... 67 Creating Religious Identity Karma Lekshe Tsomo............................................................................................. 77 The Diagram of the Supreme Pole and the Kabbalistic Tree Martin Zwick ........................................................................................................... 89 A Portrait of the Venerable Master Hs端an Hua ........................................................ 110 About This Journal .......................................................................................................... 112 Past Contributors to Religion East & West ................................................ 114 About the Institute for World Religions ................................................ inside back cover

ISSUE 9, OCTOBER 2009

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Religion East & West Editorial Board Rev. Heng Sure holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley. He serves as director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery and lectures worldwide on Buddhism, Buddhist texts, meditation, comparative religion, and interfaith dialogue. He was ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1976.

Bhikshuni Heng Hsien holds a Ph.D. in South and Southeast Asian studies from the University of California at Berkeley. A Sanskrit specialist and translator, she has been a Buddhist nun for more than thirty years.

Henry Rosemont Jr. holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Washington. A Distinguished Professor emeritus at St. Mary’s College in Maryland, he is currently visiting professor of religious studies at Brown University. He has published widely in the areas of Confucian studies and comparative religion.

Snjezana Akpinar holds a Ph.D. in Turkish studies from the University of Istanbul. She is president of Dharma Realm Buddhist University and lectures on Central Asian influences on Islam and comparative studies.

Martin J. Verhoeven received his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin and is a resident scholar at Dharma Realm Buddhist University. His area of specialty is the European and American encounter with Buddhism.

Ron Epstein holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist studies from the University of California at Berkeley. He recently retired from teaching Buddhist studies and world religions at San Francisco State University.

Douglas Powers holds an M.A. in theology and philosophy from Graduate Theological Union and a B.A. and M.A. from the University of the Redlands.

He currently teaches Western philosophy.

David Rounds, editor of this journal, holds a B.A. from Harvard and an M.A. in Buddhist studies and translation from Dharma Realm Buddhist University. .

- ngama He recently participated in a new translation of the Sura S´ura Sutra.

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