The Journal of Oriental Studies 34

CONTENTS
Feature: Dialogue of Civilizations and Its Significance
The Humanist Principle......Felix Unger
The Dialogue: Audiatur et Altera Pars — May the Other Side Also Be Heard......Axinia D. Djourova
Islam, Peace, and Harmonious Coexistence: The Quran’s Perspective......Osman Bakar
The Philosophy of the Lotus Sutra and the Significance of Dialogue between Civilizations......Ryohei Tanaka
The Evolution of Belief Systems: A Journey Through Human Thought and Spiritual Discovery...... Nurul Ain Norman
Building a Network of Harmonious Coexistence: Reflections on Dr Daisaku Ikeda’s Philosophy of Peace......Christopher Chiong-Meng Boey

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Faith, Religion, and Thought
(From the Symposium in Conjunction with the 38th Annual Academic Conference of the IOP)
Pain-Free Society and Artificial Empathy: When AI Can Understand Pain, Will It Be a Singularity?......Norihiko Shinomiya
How can AI Contribute to the Buddhist World?......Shuichi Yamamoto and Victor S. Kuwahara
How to Face the Incomprehensibility of Artificial Intelligence: Considering Amidst the Transformation of ‘Being’ and ‘Pain’......Yo Hamada
The Language World of LLM-AI and the Experience of Koto-ba (Language)......Junichiro Inutsuka

IOP and the ‘Lotus Sutra Manuscript Series’
An Outline and the Significance of the Lotus Sutra Manuscript Series......Noriyoshi Mizufune
The Present State of Lotus Sutra Sanskrit Manuscript Studies......Noriyuki Kudo

Contributions
Gifted Education in Kazakhstan......Makhabat Kenzhegaliyeva
Ontology, Morality, and Religion: A Philosophical Discourse on Swami Vivekananda......Dilip Kumar Mohanta
“… the wisdom to perceive the interconnectedness of all life”: Systems Ecology, and Buddhist Philosophy......Michael Golden