The Teaching of Vimalakirti, treasured in China and Japan and best known in the West in Canon Etienne Lamotte's classic translation from the Tibetan and Chinese, has now surfaced in its original language, Sanskrit, after two thousand years. Centered on a lay bodhisattva, a master of paradox, who has no equal in debate except the Buddha and Manjusri, the embodiment of wisdom, Vimalakirti is the most humorous and engaging of the major Buddhist scriptures, comparable to the Book of Job in its dramatic format. In the first commentary on the recovered text, an Irish theologian reads and the Gospels in light of each other, and finds resonances between the Buddhist wisdom of nonduality and the Christian dynamic of incarnation and paschal transformation.

Buddhist Nonduality, Paschal Paradox: A Christian Commentary on The Teaching of Vimalakirti (Vimalakirtinirdesa) (Christian Commentaries on Non-Christian Sacred Texts), JS O'Leary , Peeters, Paperback, 313 pages, $69.00

Joseph S. O�Leary, born Cork 1949, taught theology in the USA (1981-83) and the Philippines (1986-87) and English Literature in Sophia University, Tokyo (1988-2015). He was Roche Chair for Interreligious Research at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nagoya (2015-16). His publications in Fundamental Theology include Questioning Back: The Overcoming of Metaphysics in Christian Tradition (Winston-Seabury, 1985), La verite chretienne � l�age du pluralisme religieux (Editions du Cerf, 1994), Religious Pluralism and Christian Truth (Edinburgh University Press, 1996), L�art du jugement en theologie (Cerf, 2011), Conventional and Ultimate Truth (University of Notre Dame Press). He has discussed Buddhist philosophical themes in Philosophie occidentale et concepts bouddhistes (Presses Universitaires de France, �Chaire Gilson,' 2011) and Buddhist Nonduality, Paschal Paradox (Peeters, 2015). His literary interests centre on Henry James and James Joyce, and he is currently completing a book on Joyce in theological perspective.