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Eckel: Defining a Usable Past 77NOTES1. See, for example, Roger R. Jackson and John J. Makransky, eds., BuddhistTheology: Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars (Richmond,Surrey, U.K.: Curzon Press, 2000).2. Ray L. Hart gave an vivid account of the ambivalence many professorsof religious studies feel toward the practice of theology in his studyof the field published as a special issue of the Journal of the AmericanAcademy of Religion. I have discussed many of the same issues in “TheGhost at the Table: On the Study of Buddhism and the Study of Religion,”Journal of the American Academy of Religion 63 (1995): pp. 1085–1110. For a trenchant critique of theological agendas in the study ofreligion, see Donald Wiebe, The Politics of Religious Studies: TheContinuing Conflict with Theology in the Academy (New York: St.Martin’s Press, 1999).3. AiΩvaryamadamatto ‘si måm avajñåya vartase / upasthite≈u bauddhe≈umadadh∆nå tava sthiti© // quoted by George Chemparathy in An IndianRational Theology: Introduction to Udayana’s Nyåyakusumåñjali (Vienna:Indological Institute, University of Vienna, 1972), p. 28.4. One project that has received wide attention is the movement known asCritical Buddhism. This movement has been ably documented by JamieHubbard and Paul L. Swanson in Pruning the Bodhi Tree: The Storm OverCritical Buddhism (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1997). Anotherimportant project is the Shin Buddhism Translation Series, culminating inThe Collected Works of Shinran, trans. Dennis Hirota, Hisao Inagaki,Michio Tokunaga, and Ryushin Uryuzu (Kyoto: Jødo Shinsh¥Hongwanji-ha, 1997), and including Yoshifumu Ueda and Dennis Hirota,Shinran: An Introduction to His Thought (Kyoto: Hongwanji InternationalCenter, 1989).5. The energy generated by this dialogue is best represented, perhaps, bythe long-running conversation between Masao Abe and John Cobb. Seeparticularly Masao Abe, Zen and Western Thought, ed. William R. LaFleur(Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1985); John B. Cobb, Jr. andChristopher Ives, eds., The Emptying God: A Buddhist-Jewish-ChristianConversation (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1990); and John B. Cobb, Jr.,Beyond Dialogue: Toward a Mutual Transformation of Christianity andBuddhism (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982).6. Aristotle, On Rhetoric, trans. George A. Kennedy (New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1991), book 3.