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「宗教傳統中的生態學及倫理」是第二期《東西宗教》的主題，這份年刊由柏克萊寺的世界宗教研究所出版，法界佛教大學贊助。世界宗教研究所希望透過一個中立可信的媒體，正確地介紹世界各宗教，以促進宗教間的相互認知，因此於二OO一年發行《東西宗教》創刊號。研究所成立於一九七六年，創辦人佛教宣化上人，及天主教于斌樞機主教，他們的共同理念是：唯有各宗教間和諧共處，正義而和平的世界才可能存在。
年刊主要內容，為登載每年度在柏克萊聯合神學研究所所舉行的「宣化上人紀念演講會」；這項活動的目的，是希望引用來自東方的智慧，以解決現代的問題。今年演講會的焦點為「世界各個宗教應扮演主動角色來化解環境危機」，主講人為柏克萊加大瑪莉伊蓮塔克教授。她的演講內容列在本期年刊的頭版。今年的這份期刊也特別追懷法總的好友，曾任法界佛教大學咨詢顧問的湯姆‧麥米倫博士。他是加州瑜伽鎮第一浸信會的副牧師，也是追尋全體基督信仰的靈性生命的典範。他所著的「道德倫理：亞里斯多德派與佛教觀點之比較」亦刊登在本期《東西宗教》內。
其他的內容包括北加州Vedanta中心的Swami
Prabuddhananda，聖十字修女會的瑪莉安修女，太平洋路德會孔學專家于卓浩(譯音)，法界佛教大學校長艾比納教授等人的文章，本刊並節錄有宣公上人對於倫理所作的開示。
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"Ecology and Ethics in Religious
Traditions" is the theme of the second issue of Religion
East and West, the annual journal published by the Institute
for World Religions, which is centered at Berkeley Buddhist
Monastery and is sponsored by the Dharma Realm Buddhist
University. Religion East and West, which had its inaugural
issue in 2001, furthers the Institute for World Religions'
mission of promoting knowledge about the world's religions
through the medium of interfaith understanding and trust.
The Institute was founded in 1976 by the Venerable Master
Hsuan Hua and Paul Cardinal Yu Bin, in the belief that
harmony among the world's religions is an indispensable
prerequisite for a just and peaceful world.
The annual journal features the annual
Venerable Master Hsuan Hua Memorial Lecture, which is given
at the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley. In keeping
with the Memorial Lecture's purpose of bringing the wisdom
of the East to problems of the modern world, this year's
lecture focused on the need for the world's religions to
take an active part in addressing the environmental crisis.
The speaker was Professor Mary Evelyn Tucker of Bucknell
University. Her speech heads the list of articles in the
journal.
This year the journal is dedicated to the
memory of the late Thomas F. MacMillan, who was a friend of
the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association and a member of the
Dharma Realm Buddhist University Advisory Board. An
associate pastor of the First Baptist Church of Ukiah,
California, Professor MacMillan was a model of the
ecumenical spiritual seeker. His article, "Virtue Based
Ethics: A Comparison of Aristotelian-Thomistic and Buddhist
Approaches," appears in this year's Religion East and West.
Among the contributors to this year's
journal are Swami Prabuddhananda of the Vedanta Center of
Northern California; Sister Marianne Farina of the
Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross; Confucian
scholar Zhuohao Yu of Pacific Lutheran Seminary; Islamicist
Snjezana Akpinar, who is president of Dharma Realm Buddhist
University; and others. The Venerable Master Hsuan Hua is
represented by a short excerpt of his many teachings on
ethics.
Copies of Religion East and West are
available at Dharma Realm Buddhist Association monasteries.
Those interested in subscribing or in receiving a copy of
this year's issue by mail may write to the Institute for
World Religions at Berkeley Buddhist Monastery; 2304
McKinley Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94703 USA Subscriptions are
free; donations are welcome.
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