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Studies in Comparative Religion Annual Edition 1972
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Studies in Comparative Religion - Commemorative Annual Edition 1972
Studies in Comparative Religion - Commemorative Annual Edition 1972
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ISBN:  978-1-935493-62-4
Book Size:  8.25" x 11.75"
# of Pages:  212
Language:  English



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This is a commemorative volume containing the four issues from 1972 of the British journal Studies in Comparative Religion. It features a broad spectrum of essays from many of the most important European and American writers on spiritual Traditionalism or the Perennial Philosophy. This volume includes essays from such writers as René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Marco Pallis, Shojun Bando, Lord Northbourne, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and many others.
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Details on Studies in Comparative Religion Annual Edition 1972

This is a commemorative volume containing the four issues from 1972 of the influential traditionalist British journal Studies in Comparative Religion. It features a broad spectrum of essays from many of the most important European and American writers on spiritual Traditionalism or the Perennial Philosophy. >i>Studies in Comparative Religion was founded in Britain in 1963 by Francis Clive-Ross (1921–1981) and is the first and most comprehensive English-language journal of traditional studies. The journal was published under the name Tomorrow until 1967, when it was changed to its present name. Four quarterly issues per year, containing over 1,200 articles in total, were published during the first 25 years of Studies in Comparative Religion’s existence, before its publication was interrupted in 1987.

This commemorative volume contains the four issues from 1972. It features a broad spectrum of essays from many of the most important European and American writers on spiritual Traditionalism or the Perennial Philosophy, such as René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Marco Pallis, Shojun Bando, Lord Northbourne, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and many others.


About the Editor, F. Clive-Ross

Francis Clive-Ross

F. Clive-Ross was the founder, publisher and editor of the journal Studies in Comparative Religion and its predecessor Tomorrow. For nearly 20 years under Clive-Ross’ guidance, Studies was one of the predominant platforms for discussion of all issues to pertaining to comparative religious studies. Clive-Ross also founded the publishing house, Perennial Books Ltd, and was a trustee of the “World of Islam Festival”. He died in 1981.

World Wisdom has proudly sponsored a new beginning for Studies. All of the original issues are being placed on a custom website: www.studiesincomparativereligion.com. Mr. Clive-Ross's editorials appear in the compilations of Studies in Comparative Religion issues published by World Wisdom:


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Studies in Comparative Religion Annual Edition 1972 Contents

Vol. 6, #1, Winter 1972

Remarks on some Kings of France by Frithjof Schuon

Living One’s Karma by Marco Pallis

Chance by Lord Northbourne

Persia and the Destiny of Islamic Philosophy by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“A Figure of Speech or a Figure of Thought?” (Part 1) by A. K. Coomaraswamy

Book Reviews

Vol. 6, #2, Spring 1972

Man and Certainty by Frithjof Schuon

The Necessity for the Rise of the Term Sufi by Victor Danner

The Marriage of Wisdom and Method by Marco Pallis

“A Figure of Speech or a Figure of Thought?” (Part 2) by A. K. Coomaraswamy

Jodo Buddhism in the Light of Zen by Shojun Bando

Current Affairs

Book Review

Correspondence

Vol. 6, #3, Summer 1972

The Two Paradises by Frithjof Schuon

The Spread of the Illuminationist School of Suhrawardi by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The International Institute of Shanghai, An Eastern Parliament of Religions by Donald H. Bishop

Anti-Theology and the Riddles of Alcyone by Whitall N. Perry

Vol. 6, #4, Autumn 1972

Remarks on the Sunnah by Frithjof Schuon

The Two Selves: Coomaraswamy as Man and Metaphysician by Roger Lipsey

Significance of the Nembutsu by Shojun Bando

The Anti-Wisdom of Modern Philosophy by Ian Watson

The Influence of Sufism on Traditional Persian Music by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The Art of Relaxing as an Adjunct to Religious Concentration by Ursula Darkins

Taoism and Confucianism by René Guénon

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In addressing the fact that "Jodo Buddhism has long been misunderstood by many people as being something little different from Christianity," Shojun Bando describes "the character of Jodo Buddhism in contrast with the Zen way of attaining the Buddhist principle, sūnyatā [emptiness, voidness]." The essay covers the relationship between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, the etymology of the term "Jodo," principles of Zen and Jodo, and the author discusses the "too superficial observation" that Zen belongs to the Self-Power School and Jodo to the Other-Power School, which he finds misleading and not useful in distinguishing the two forms of Buddhism.
Jodo Buddhism in the Light of ZenStudies in Comparative Religion: Annual Edition 1972Bando, Shojun Buddhism
The "Nembutsu" has, as the author states, the dual significance of “thinking of, or remembering the Buddha” and “pronouncing the Name of the Buddha, especially of Amida Buddha.…” Bando goes on to state that “according to Shinran’s perspective, it is not the age nor the nature of man as such that degenerates with the passage of time, but the consciousness of man’s abysmal decadence that has been both successively revealed and deepened thanks to the teachers of the Pure Land doctrine.” The author thus traces the significance of this mantra both in itself and within the historical context of the ages of Buddhism.
Significance of the NembutsuStudies in Comparative Religion: Annual Edition 1972Bando, Shojun Buddhism
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