Buddhist-Confucian Dialogue

Doil Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy, and Korean Philosophy at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. He directs the Center for the Contemporary Study of East Asian Classics and Critical Confucianism, supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea, and leads the Brain Korea 21 FOUR program, funded by the Ministry of Education, Korea. He also serves as editor of the Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture and is the author of The Art of Seeing Beyond Oneself: A Confucian Perspective on Humility (OUP, 2025).Leah Kalmanson is Associate Professor and Bhagwan Adinath Professor of Jain Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. She is author of Local Gods: A Philosophy of Spiritual Diversity (Columbia, 2026), Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought (Bloomsbury, 2020), and co-author with Monika Kirloskar Steinbach of A Practical Guide to World Philosophies: Selves, Worlds, and Ways of Knowing (Bloomsbury, 2021).

• Chapter 1.- Jinmu Kim, Yongbin You, and Jae-young Seo, “Confucianism and Buddhism in Dialogue: A Historical and Philosophical Survey”.- Part I: Contrapuntal Tension.- Chapter 2 Maki Sato, “On Death and Burial: In the View of Nakae Tōju and Kumazawa Banzan”.- Chapter 3 Jea Sophia Oh, “Korean Women’s Jeong 정/情 (Emotions) in Buddhism and Confucianism: Korean Nuns’ Seon Practice as Eco-dharma for Self-Cultivation and Planetary Love”.- Part II: Contextual Adoption.- Chapter 4 Steven Heine, “Key Aspects of Chan Moral Discourse Impacted by Confucianism”.- Chapter 5 Diana Arghirescu, “Fostering Good Governance Through Interconnectedness: Contemporary Insights from Chan Scholar-Monk Qisong and Neo-Confucian Thinker Zhu Xi”.- Part III: Creative Synthesis.- Chapter 6 Albert Welter, “An Investigation into the Parameters of Buddhism in China: Hanhua (Han Ways Transforming the Barbarians) vs. Huahan (Barbarian Ways Transforming the Han)”.- Chapter 7 Youngho Lee, “The Interaction Between Confucianism and Buddhism from the Perspective of the Exegetical Tradition of the Analects”.- Chapter 8 Suk Gabriel Choi, “A Reflection on Korean Traditional Music from Confucian and Buddhist Perspectives”.- Chapter 9 Leah Kalmanson, “Let Us Give up Our Meditation Cushions!: A Confucian-Buddhist Conversation on the Power of Mental Cultivation”.- Chapter 10 Doil Kim, “A Paradox of Humility: Reflections on Confucian Self-Cultivation and the Three No’s in Chan Buddhism”.