THE JOURNAL OF ORIENTAL STUDIES（Vol. 34）

CONTENTS

■Feature: Dialogue of Civilizations and Its Significance

The Humanist Principle…Felix Unger (President Emeritus, European Academy of Sciences and Arts)

The Dialogue: Audiatur et altera pars — May the Other Side Also be Heard…Axinia D. Djourova (Professor, Sofia University "Kliment Ohridski")

Islam, Peace, and Harmonious Coexistence: The Quran's Perspective…Osman Bakar (Rector, International Islamic University Malaysia)

The Philosophy of the Lotus Sutra and the Significance of Dialogue between Civilizations…Ryohei Tanaka (Director, Institute of Oriental Philosophy)

The Evolution of Belief Systems: A Journey Through Human Thought and Spiritual Discovery…Nurul Ain Norman (Assistant Professor, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization)

Building a Network of Harmonious Coexistence: Reflections on Dr Daisaku Ikeda's Philosophy of Peace…Christopher Chiong-Meng Boey (Overseas Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Philosophy)

■'Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Faith, Religion, and Thought'
(From the Symposium in Conjunction with 38th Annual Academic Conference of the IOP)

Pain-Free Society and Artificial Empathy: When AI Can Understand Pain, Will It Be a Singularity?…Norihiko Shinomiya (Commissioned Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Philosophy)

How Can AI Contribute to the Buddhist World?…Shuichi Yamamoto (Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Philosophy) and Victor S. Kuwahara (Professor, Soka University)

How to Face the Unfathomability of Artificial Intelligence: Reflections Amidst the Transformation of 'Being' and 'Pain'…Yo Hamada (Professor, Teikyo University) Trans. By Rekha Gokhale

The Language World of LLM-AI and the Lived Experience of Koto-ba (Language)…Junichiro Inutsuka (Professor, Jissen Women's University) Trans. by Ryo Chonabayashi

■IOP and the 'Lotus Sutra Manuscript Series'

The Significance of the Lotus Sutra Manuscript Series and Its Outline…Noriyoshi Mizufune (Commissioned Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Philosophy)

Current Status of Research on Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Lotus Sutra…Noriyuki Kudo (Professor, The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University.) Trans. by Mary Blaber

■Contributions

Gifted Education in Kazakhstan…Makhabbat Kenzhegaliyeva (Professor, Leipzig University)

Ontology, Morality, and Religion: A Philosophical Discourse on Swami Vivekananda…Dilipkumar Mohanta (Professor, Calcutta University)

"… the wisdom to perceive the interconnectedness of all life": Systems Thinking, Ecology, and Buddhist Philosophy…Michael Golden (Professor, Soka University of America)

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