The meeting of two cultures / Minoru Tada -- Kyoto : the city that represents Japan / George Hlawatsch -- Some themes in the Christian experience in Japan / Håkan Eilert -- An introduction to Shinto / Naofusa Hirai -- What is Shinto? / Masahiko Asoya -- The concept of Kami / Kanji Ueda -- Foundations of Mt. Hiei / Hisao Inagaki -- On the Lotus Sūtra / Michio Shinozaki -- On Zen / Keido Fukushima Roshi -- The relation of Buddhist thought to Zazen / Gudo Mishijima Roshi -- The significance of the Nembutsu / Shojun Bando -- Shinran's view of the three Pure Land Sūtras : from Amida worship to the true and real religion / Nobuo Nomura -- The dialectic of Shinjin / Michio Tokunaga -- Other power and social ethics : the bifurcation of Shinran's teaching / Michio Tokunaga -- The role of women in the Buddhist tradition in Japan / Kyoko Motomochi Nakamura -- Reflections on the notion of "the inward quest" in the Japanese Buddhist experience / Dennis Hirota -- Religiousness and the way of tea / Dennis Hirota -- The first round-table discussion -- The second round-table discussion.