Kenneth K. Inada is Professor of Philosophy at State University of New York at Buffalo and co-editor of Buddhism and American Thinkers, also published by SUNY Press.

Hosaku Matsuo was a practicing physician and founding member of the Japanese Association of Comparative Philosophy.

Foreword
Hajime Nakamura

Translator's Introduction

Kenneth K. Inada

Preface

Why Philosophy?

Why Comparative Philosophy?
Western and Eastern Philosophy

Chapter I Methodology of Comparative Philosophy

—Realization of mind-base and intuitive unconsciousness—

 Locus of the Problem and Its Development

Definition and method

My methodology

On philosophizing

Diagram of the Mind-base in East-West Context

Space and Time as Modes of Intuition<>/span>

Evidences of Intuitive Unconscious

Demonstration No. 1-1

Demonstration No. 1-2

Demonstration No. 1-3

Demonstration No. 1-4

Logic East and West

Recapitulation

Comparative philosophy and contrast of ideas

Realization: holistic man versus individual

Weakness of Western epistemology

Man is born twice

Philosophy as the foundation of all disciplines

What is man?

Chapter II The Logic of Unity

—Discovery of zero and emptiness in prajñaparamita thought—

The Reason for a Logic of Unity

Metaphysical Bias and True Human Orientation

The Limits of Religion and the Social Sciences

The Nature of Buddhism

Ten Articles on the Logic of Unity

The Kegon Ten Profound Gates

Conclusions

Further analysis of the ten articles

Holistic consciousness
Dialectic
Dialectical epistemology
Discovery of philosophical zero
Dialectic of religion and philosophy
Principle of dual truths

Unitary dialectic

Integrative dialectic

Dialectical historicism

Conception of life and world view

Chapter III The Truth in the Heart Sutra

The Heart Sutra (Prajñapramitahrdaya-sutra )

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva

Further on Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva

On Emptiness (Sunyata )

Instructions to Sariputra

Nature of the Various Dharmas

Nature of Emptiness (Sunyata )

Nature of Ignorance (Avidya )