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This presentation will explore the Lotus Sutra-based understanding of the diversity of religions that underpins the Japanese Buddhist religious group Rissho Kosei-kai’s approach to interfaith cooperation and dialogue. I will examine how Rissho Kosei-kai creatively reinterpreted prewar Nichirenism’s stance toward the diversity of religions to support an inclusivist embrace of other religions and enter dialogue with them. However, I determine that those innovations have an ambiguous contemporary legacy, as aspects of Rissho Kosei-kai’s inclusivist notion of the “oneness” of religions cannot transcend reductive inclusivism to provide a coherent account of religious pluralism.In the conclusion of this presentation, I will reflect on the potential for establishing a practical framework for understanding religious pluralism for Rissho Kosei-kai and consider the prospects for embracing a thoroughgoing pluralism from the standpoint of the Lotus Sutra tradition.
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Introduction
Rissho Kosei-kai
History and Context
Embrace of Interfaith Dialogue
Interfaith Dialogue and Doctrinal Innovation
The Lotus Sutra’s Synthesis
An Ecumenical or Exclusivist Text?
Nichirenism and Religious Diversity
The Lotus Sutra as a Template for Reacting to Religious Diversity
Chapter Sixteen’s “Six Ways in which the Tathāgata Manifests in the World”
Chapter Twenty-one and the “Future Oneness of Teachings”
Stances Toward Other Religions: Tripartite Division of Strategies
Nichirenism’s Sense Making of the Diversity of Religions: Inclusivist Replacement Model
Japan Discovers Religious Diversity
Chapter Twenty-one’s “Future Oneness of Teachings”
Niwano Nikkyō’s Reformulation
Niwano’s Starting Point
The Ambivalence of Inclusivism
Niwano’s Starting Point
Niwano’s Transformation and Doctrinal Innovation: “The Six Ways in which the Tathāgata Manifests in the World”
Niwano’s Doctrinal Innovation: the “Future Oneness of Teachings”
The Ambivalence of Inclusivism
Niwano’s “Gentle Inclusivism”
The Pluralist Revolution
The Pluralist Revolution and Rissho Kosei-kai
Prospects for the Development of a Pluralistic View
Hints of Religious Pluralism?
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