Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-300) and index.

Introduction: philosophy, nonphilosophy, and comparative philosophy / Jin Y. Park and Gereon Kopf -- Body : self in the flesh of the world -- Merleau-Pontean "flesh" and its Buddhist interpretation / Hyong-hyo Kim -- Merleau-Ponty's theory of the body and the doctrine of the five skandhas / Yasuo Yuasa -- How the tree sees me : sentience and insentience in Tiantai and Merleau-Ponty / Brook Ziporyn -- The human body as a boundary symbol : a comparison of Merleau-Ponty and Dōgen / Carl Olson -- Space : thinking and being in the chiasm of visibility -- The double : Merleau-Ponty and Chinul on thinking and questioning / Jin Y. Park -- The notion of the "words that speak the truth" in Merleau-Ponty and Shinran / Toru Funaki -- Self in space : Nishida philosophy and phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty / Bernard Stevens -- Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne, and the basho of the visible / Gerald Cipriani -- "Place of nothingness" and the dimension of visibility : Nishida, Merleau-Ponty, and Huineng / David Brubaker -- The world : ethics of emptiness, ethics of the flesh -- The flesh of the world is emptiness and emptiness is the flesh of the world, and their ethical implications / Glen A. Mazis -- Merleau-Ponty and Nāgārjuna : enlightenment, ethics, and politics / Michael Berman -- Ki-energy : underpinning religion and ethics / Shigenori Nagatomo -- Merleau-Ponty and Asian philosophy : the double walk of Buddhism and Daoism / Jay Goulding.

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