Dialogue and Synthesis: Sot'aesan's Perspective and Examples

The author explores three issues: (1) how Sot'aesan's (founder of Won Buddhist) dialogical and synthetical methods work by showing concrete examples of his encounters with other religious traditions, mainly three Eastern religious traditions--Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism; (2) how Sot'aesan synthesizes the Christian dimension of faith into a non-theistic tradition of the East since Sot'aesan encountered Christian believers on several occasions; and (3) issues that might derive from the further expansion of Sot'aesan's perspective in the multireligious context of the world.