Buddha, Bhakti, and Brahman: Sebastian Kappen S.J.’s Dialogue with Indian Religions

The study of religions and the dialogue of religions (Shûkyôgaku to shûkyôtaiwa)

The purpose of this paper is to consider some of the ways in which the scientific study of religions might have implications for the continuing process of dialogue between religions. While the study of religions itself is a non-religious activity, the dialogue between religions, on the other hand, certainly is in some sense a religious activity. It involves the presentation and exchange of reli...

Declarative Debugging with Buddha

Haskell is a very safe language, particularly because of its type system. However there will always be programs that do the wrong thing. Programmer fallibility, partial or incorrect specifications and typographic errors are but a few of the reasons that make bugs a fact of life. This paper is about the use and implementation of a debugger, called Buddha, which helps Haskell programmers understa...

Reflection: Fire and Buddha Image

Sebastian

The work with Sebastian has centered around an attempt to correlate certain factors of efficiency in adolescence and an analysis of increased Binet I. Q. with increased physical fitness. Sebastian comes of American stock of average social status. His parents are of average mentality. There is no history of specific disease, but for some ten years the family finances have been at a very low leve...

P 1 : Mrm / Sjs P 2 : Mrm / Sjs Qc : Mrm

The acquisition of word classes and their distinctions has long attracted researchers of language, and Ruth Berman’s contribution to this topic has played an important role in first language acquisition literature (Berman 1985, 1986, and particularly 1988).1 This paper examines the knowledge of word classes under incomplete acquisition, a previously uninvestigated area of inquiry. Incomplete ac...