Contents:

Zen and Nietzsche / Masao Abe --Nirvana as a negative image of God / Thomas J.J. Altizer --Tautology as philosophy in Nicolaus Cusanus and Na�ga�rjuna / Gustavo Benavides --Aspects of the Indian and Western traditions of formal logic and their comparisons / Douglas Dunsmore Daye --The Zen understanding of the initial nature of man / Richard J. Demartino --The conflict between analytic philosophy and existentialism in Buddhist perspective / M.W. Padmasiri de Silva --Buddhism and Marxism in the socio-cultural context of Sri Lanka / Gunapala Dharmasiri --Martin Buber and oriental religions / Maurice Friedman --Heidegger and Zen on being and nothingness: a critical essay in transmetaphysical dialectics / Charles Wei-Hsun Fu --Nagarjuna, Aristotle, and Frege on the nature of thought / Ashok K. Gangadean. Dionysus against the Buddha: Nietzsche's "yes" and the Buddhist "no" / Steven Heine --Problematics of the Buddhist nature of self / Kenneth K. Inada --On the notion of verification in Buddhism and in logical positivism: a brief philosophical study / A.D.P. Kalansuriya --Na�ga�rjuna and Wittgenstein on error / Nathan Katz --Buddhism and modern philosophies of existence / Bhikkhu N~a�naji�vako --Nihilism and Su�nyata� / Keiji Nishitani --On the supramundane and the divine in Buddhism / D. Seyfort Ruegg --Temporality and consciousness in A�bhidharmika Buddhism: a phenomenological approach / Braj M. Sinha --Problems of the application of western terminology to Therava�da Buddhism, with special reference to the relationship between the Buddha and the gods / Ninian Smart --Who understands the four alternatives of the Buddhist texts? / Alex Wayman.