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	Nishida Kitaro
		No one is more qualified to write such a book than Nishitani Keiji, whose lifetime coincides with the rise and flowering of the Kyoto School and whose own critical contribution to Japanese thought has been so important.
		Examining Nishida's most important work, An Inquiry into the Good, Nishitani penetrates to the core of his thought and presents it in language that is a marvel of clarity.
		Nishitani Keiji is Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/5729.html (257 words)

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		So perhaps we can say that Nishitani uses the word "destiny" in his writing to connote the idea that we are originally oriented in such a way as to impute substantiality in the things around us, in that it helps us to survive physically.
		More like the "destiny" Nishitani speaks of, this example shows a tendency to substantialize that is a part of being human, at least insofar as we understand being human.
		Perhaps to find a problem with Nishitani's use of the word "destiny" is to miss the fundamental point that language has the effect of pinning us to substantiality (and pinning substantiality to us) in a nearly inescapable way.
	www.ianvarley.com /being/writings/buddhist.htm (2892 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kyoto School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nishitani Keiji, one of Nishida's main disciples, would become the doyen in the post-war period.
		Nishitani's works, such as his Religion and Nothingness, primarily dealt with the Western notion of nihilism, ala Nietzsche, and Eastern notions of nothingness, as found in the Buddhist idea of sunyata and the Zen idea of mu.
		There is also a great deal of criticism concerning the school's rather idealized and ahistorical understanding of the "East" and "Buddhism/Zen." It should be noted that although Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki is often linked with the Kyoto school -- and, indeed, was close to Nishida -- he is not considered a member.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kyoto-School (263 words)

	Planetary thinking/planetary building: An essay on
		Nishitani is one of those who might be called the "heirs" of Heidegger (he studied with Heidegger in Germany in the 1930s).
		For Nishitani, though, the "mutual giving" of time is one of emptiness, and, because of the nonduality of form and emptiness, he is able to return to the everyday form of time as the succession of moments.
		Nishitani interprets philosophy as theoria, an intellectual or contemplative beholding of reality that does not overcome the division of self and world, Religion, however, enquires after reality in such a way that reality is realized in the questioning.
	ccbs.ntu.edu.tw /FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/thompson.htm (6959 words)

	Journal of Buddhist Ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Comprised of Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe Hajime, and Nishitani Keiji, who succeeded each other in the same chair, the Kyoto School was a movement whose influence has recently been the subject of much debate and scrutiny.
		Nishitani is the third major philosopher comprising the Kyoto School movement.
		It was Nishitani's work, traversing both ancient and contemporary Eastern and Western traditions, comprehensive as well as accessible, that brought attention to the works of the Kyoto School philosophers.
	jbe.gold.ac.uk /10/pasul01.html (1165 words)

	OJPCR 2.2: Integrating Bhuddist Philosophy and Peacemaking
		Nishitani argues that as a modern scientific view of the world has taken root human beings have relied on objective truths to answer questions of existence.
		Nishitani explains that as an objective view steeped in scientific revolution begins to consume the field of objective knowledge, the subjective religious views that had been unified with the objective become separated.
		According to Nishitani, the rejection of a teleological view of the world can be attributed to the rise of positivist science.
	www.trinstitute.org /ojpcr/2_2walsh.htm (4121 words)

	Carlo Saviani Nishitani e la Scuola di Kyôto
		Nishitani Keiji nasce il 27 febbraio a Udetsu, una cittadina della prefettura Ishikawa.
		Mori T., Nishitani Keiji and the Question of Nationalism, in Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School, and the Question of Nationalism, cit., pp.
		Vianello, Nishitani Keiji e il problema del Nichilismo, in Atti del XXI Convegno Aistugia di Studi sul Giappone, Venezia 1998, pp.
	www.gianfrancobertagni.it /materiali/zen/nishitani.htm (2558 words)

	James W. Heisig: East-West Dialogue: Sunyata and kenosis
		SHORTLY after the appearance of Nishitani Keiji's Shukyo to wa nanika in 1961, (18) Masao Abe published a lengthy review in one of Japan's leading philosophical reviews, (19) hailing the book as an epoch-making work that begs for comparison with Schleiermacher's Über die Religion.
		In fact he makes it clear that his standpoint is the same as Nishitani's, and that his intention is merely to shift the focus of the discussion of Christianity itself.
		Nishitani falls in this tradition, though he more commonly refers to his position as a "standpoint of ganyatß." It is this terminology that Abe also adopts in his reflections on the ken6tic Christ, preferring the more general term "Ultimate Reality" when speaking in absolute terms of "emptiness" or "nothingness."
	www.spiritualitytoday.org /spir2day/873932heisig.html (4170 words)

	Nishitani Keiji Definition / Nishitani Keiji Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nishitani Keiji ( 1900 1900 is a common year starting on Monday.
		Nishitani's works, such as his Religion and Nothingness, primarily dealt wi...
		Nishitani, "the stylistic superior of Nishida," brought Zen poetry, religion, literature, and philosophy organically together in his work to help lay the difficult foundations of breaking free of the Japanese language in a similar way as Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher.
	www.elresearch.com /Nishitani_Keiji (791 words)

	Nishitani Keiji biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nishitani Keiji ( 1900, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan - 1990) was one of Nishida Kitaro's disciples and part of the Kyoto School of Philosophy.
		Nishitani, "the stylistic superior of Nishida," brought Zen poetry, religion, literature, and philosophy organically together in his work to help lay the difficult foundations of breaking free of the Japanese language in a similar way as Blaise Pascal or Friedrich Nietzsche.
		Furthermore, unlike Nishida, who had focused on building a philosophical system and who, towards the end of his career, began to focus on political philosophy, Nishitani focused on creating a standpoint "from which he could enlighten a broader range of topics," and wrote more on Buddhist themes towards the end of his career.
	nishitani-keiji.biography.ms (148 words)

	God, Zen and the Intuition of Being, Chapter 4
		Keiji Nishitani, a noted philosopher of the Kyoto School, (2) allows us a glimpse of some of the ideas of Part I from a Zen perspective.
		Further, Nishitani gives a role to nihility in showing the weakness of the equation of being with substance, while these same historians show how the doctrine of creation from nothing played a role in Thomas' metaphysical formulation of existence.
		When a radius from the center crosses the two circles, these two points of intersection represent the objective forms under which the thing appears to sensation and reason, while the center of the circle represents the thing as it is in itself.
	www.innerexplorations.com /catew/gz4.htm (2474 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Jan van Bragt, the able translator of Nishitani Keiji's Religion and Nothingness puts it nicely, there is a general Eastern antipathy to overly direct and assertive language in everyday discourse.
		Like, Bergson's critique of the intellect, Nishitani concludes that for all our talk about the reality of things, `things do not display their real reality' to us since `On the field of consciousness, it is not possible really to..
		For Nishitani, Sartre's `Nothingness', unlike that of Eastern thought is immanent to the ego.
	www.keele.ac.uk /depts/stt/cstt2/comp/chia.htm (7182 words)

	Philosophy East and West : History, transhistory, and narrative history: a postmodern view of Nishitani's philosophy of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the major contributions in Nishitani Keiji's modern philosophical exposition of Zen is his discussion of the question of history in a comparative light with Western religious, philosophical, and social scientific approaches.
		Nishitani's main theme probably is the ideological encounter between religion and science as well as religion and nihilism, as critically seen from the standpoint of Buddhist emptiness (sunyata), or what Kyoto School thinkers refer to as absolute nothingness (zettai mu).
		Yet, Jan Van Bragt comments in the introduction to his translation of Nishitani's Religion and Nothingness, "From within the Kyoto School, the treatment of history in the final two essays [on "Sunyata and Time" and "Sunyata and History"] has been received as the strongest and most original part of the book.
	static.elibrary.com /p/philosophyeastandwest/april011994/historytranshistoryandnarrativehistoryapostmodernv/index.html (263 words)

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		Nishitani's Religion and Nothingness as Foundation for Christian-Buddhist Dialogue, Asian Thought and Culture, Vol.
		Admitting that Nishitani makes common cause with Christianity against scientific materialism, nihilism, and atheistic existentialism, Bowers hastens to show the superficiality of these common concerns.
		Bowers notes that Nishitani, at this point, has more in common with various "non-evangelical" theologies--Mystical (Eckhart and Heidegger), Radical (Altizer), Liberal (Ritschl, Bultmann, etc.), Process (Cobb), as well as deconstructionist hermeneutics--continuing to write as though "evangelical theology" were something self-evident and unconnected to Catholic tradition.
	www.lrc.edu /rel/blosser/Nishitani.htm (594 words)

	From Simplicity to Complexity: The Two Approaches to Nature Taken by Thoreau and Lopez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But Nishitani's suggestion goes a step beyond the Transcendentalists Neo-Platonic notion of "the One," which is still transcendent and therefore distant and inaccessible to human beings.
		Nishitani posits cultural existence as a reflection of religious experience and, hence, by definition his theory supports a reaffirming notion of culture and Nature.
		Keiji Nishitani, Religion and Nothingness, Translated with an Introduction by Jan Van Bragt (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1982).
	trumpeter.athabascau.ca /content/v14.1/cridland.html (6687 words)

	Reflections on AKP Talk, April 18, 2000
		Nishitani Keiji points out Kiyozawa was epochmaking in deploying Western philosophy to mediate Buddhist thought.
		Nishitani Keiji calls Kiyozawa's achievement "epochmaking," saying, "Through Kiyozawa, Buddhism was able to blaze a new path, a path of religious seeking mediated thoroughly by Western philosophy" ("Kiyozawa Sensei and Philosophy" [Kiyozawa Manshi Sensei to tetsugaku] 1952).
		As I was preparing these materials, the thought struck me: In the early modern period the Jodoshinshu thinkers, concerned with their image in the eyes of the ruling classes, likely made a conscious choice to phase out the Anjinketsujosho in favor of the Tannisho.
	www.shindharmanet.com /writings/reflections.htm (1556 words)

	Nishida Kitaro
		He was instrumental in securing positions at Kyoto University for Tanabe Hajime Watsuji Tetsurô, and Kuki Shuzô and attracted students such as Nishitani Keiji, Miki Kiyoshi and Tosaka Jun, who all became significant Japanese philosophers.
		Nishida is often called the father of the Kyoto School of philosophy because of his influence on a group of thinkers who were his students or younger colleagues.
		Nishitani, Keiji, 1991, Nishida Kitarô, Yamamoto Seisaku and James W. Heisig (trans.), Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press.
	setis.library.usyd.edu.au /stanford/entries/nishida-kitaro (10319 words)

	Book Review--2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Right off, if you are unfamiliar with the writings of the Kyoto school of philosophy and its best-known philosophers, Kitaro Nishida and Keiji Nishitani, you will probably find this contribution heavy going.
		Nishitani is best known for his book Religion and Nothingness, where he examines the ideas of Nietzsche and Meister Eckhart from the viewpoint of Zen nothingness ( sunyata).
		Ueda gives a good summary of the insights of both Nishida and Nishitani as they faced two of the most difficult Western philosophers, both of whom reflected on their experience of the “no experience” of God, or nothingness.
	www.monasticdialog.com /bulletins/70/bookreview2.htm (2424 words)

	OJPCR 2.2: Integrating Bhuddist Philosophy and Peacemaking
		Philosophically, the middle path is further developed through Nishida's "development of reality" and Nishitani's discussion of "the personal and impersonal".
		Nishitani's assessment of this separation between the scientist and science illustrates the dogma in this line of thinking.
		It is that fanatical attitude, that fl-and-white vision by which special revolution and the transformation of man are naively seen as two unconnected problems, while, in truth, the one presupposes the other (Nishitani, 1991:24).
	www.trinstitute.org /ojpcr/p2_2walsh.htm (4039 words)

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		I will then compare this with Nishitani's writings on emptiness, having outlined the roots of this concept in the Buddhist tradition.
		For Nishitani, the way to move beyond the nihilism of Nietzsche is through a shift to the standpoint of emptiness.
		This is similar to Heidegger's diagnosis of nihilism as the 'forgetfulness of Being', and his attempts to overcome this forgetfulness.
	www.dur.ac.uk /richard.clarkson/EidosAbs1011.doc (143 words)

	RS 356 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For Buddhist Keiji Nishitani nihilism is the specialty of the modern west.
		After centuries of officially believing in God and a whole panoply of supranatural attendants to God, from the Messiah to his angels, saints, martyrs, and mystics, the west has been jolted by the possibility that the universe is empty.
		Nishitani wants to dynamite out our dualisms, such as the gap between belief and non-belief, God and no God, fullness and emptiness, affirmation and annihilation.
	www.csun.edu /~hcrel006/s356.html (3652 words)

	ISP/SOFI - Sylvain Isaac publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		En mettant à jour le caractère insondable et abyssal de la réalité, Nishitani montre combien la raison conceptuelle, discursive ou intuitive, se révèle insuffisante pour en épuiser le sens.
		The Meaning of Nishitani Keiji's Thought for Intercultural Dialogue », communication dans le cadre de la Graduate Student Conference : Western Philosophy and Its Relationship to Other Philosophical Traditions (Leuven : 25 octobre 2002).
		Husserl, Nishida, Nishitani », communication dans le cadre de la Journée d'étude organisée par le groupe de contact interuniversitaire en phénoménologie du FNRS : Le concept de monde (Bruxelles : 08 novembre 2002).
	www.sofi.ucl.ac.be /CEP/publisaac.html (618 words)

	James W. Heisig: East-West Dialogue: Sunyata and Kenosis
		They were written in Japanese and aimed at a Japanese philosophical audience to argue the wisdom of the ambivalence that Tanabe Hajime, Nishitani's predecessor in the chair of philosophy at Kyoto University, had felt toward the Christian faith.
		Like Nishida and Suzuki, Nishitani's Buddhist affinities are clearly Zen; but like Tanabe, he has turned to European existentialism from Nietzsche to Heidegger and Sartre as his points of contact with Western philosophy.
		While he is less conversant in continental philosophy than Nishitani, Takeuchi, and Ueda, or at least draws on it rarely, Abe does his thinking "in dialogue" among the growing body of religious scholars concerned with appropriating what they can of Buddhism into Christian tradition.
	www.spiritualitytoday.org /spir2day/873924heisig.html (3392 words)

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		'''Nishitani Keiji''' ( 1900, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan - 1990) was one of Nishida Kitaro Nishida Kitaro's disciples and part of the Kyoto School Kyoto School of Philosophy.
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	Groundlessness
		The groundlessness of the human condition is discussed in depth by (Nishitani, 1982), who points out (following his teacher Heidegger) that much of the recent history of Western thought can be seen as a progressively refined questioning of absolutes.
		Based on experience with Zen meditation, Nishitani says there is a "middle way" which avoids the extremes of both nihilism and absolutism, as well as the unstable oscillation between them, by accepting groundlessness as a basis for being.
		The experience of groundlessness, and a path based upon it, have been described in many religious traditions, using phrases such as "dark night of the soul" and "cloud of unknowing." Results of practicing this middle way are said to include openness, compassion, and harmony with nature; joy, strength, and peace are also said to result.
	www.cse.ucsd.edu /users/goguen/papers/design.html (2855 words)

	Nanzan Studies in Religion & Culture: The Religious Philosophy of Nishitani Keiji
		While such a synthesis of religion and philosophy, of personality and thought, is truly rare even in contemporary East Asia, we find Nishitani personifying the traditional Asian legacy of knowing-as-becoming which cannot help but appeal to the whole person, both intellectual and affective.
		&#147;Nishitani’s is a voice coming from outside the Western tradition to critically discuss Western religious and philosophical thinkers and in the process offer new insight into their contributions.
		Always grounding his analysis in the real concerns affecting the contemporary situation, &#133;Nishitani invites us all, practitioners as well as scholars, to explore the meaning of what we are doing and saying."
	www.nanzan-u.ac.jp /SHUBUNKEN/publications/nsrc/Religious_Philosophy_of_NK.htm (179 words)

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