Buddhism

Following volumes on Christianity and Hinduism, this new offering in the com­prehensive collection of Panikkar’s work brings together in one volume the definitive English-lan­guage version of Panikkar’s important work on Buddhism. As always, Panikkar seeks to bring together East and West without compromising the integrity of each tradition.

Enthusiasts of Panikkar will find much to en­joy in this deep reading of one of the world’s great religious heritages, while the newcomer will find much intellectual profit in Panikkar’s methods—always comparing, contrasting, and offering new ways of understanding the tradi­tions he studied.

Raimon Panikkar (1918-2010) made pioneer­ing contributions in the areas of interreligious dialogue, comparative theology, and the phe­nomenology of religion, while bridging different religions and cultures (Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism), and effected insightful conversa­tion between the so-called sacred and secular worlds. These diverse contributions were tied together in a unifying vision he called his “cos­motheandric intuition,” the deep interconnec­tion of the Divine, the Cosmic, and the Human.