43 coming a university professor. He wanted to respect his debt to Hi-gashi Honganji, but at the same time he expressed his hope to engage in educational projects in the future. There was another reason why he had refused Ishiguro’s kind offer of mediation. Immediately after becoming a fourth year student En-ryō had actually submitted a proposal to Higashi Honganji concern-ing the establishment of a new school. and opened up the country, establishing systems not only for internal affairs but also for those external. In like manner, our religious organization has worked to enhance our own character internally, which equates to internal affairs, and conducted re-search into the various fields of Western learning and Christi-anity, which equates to external affairs. In order to further re-search and educate others on these external affairs, we must es-tablish a center for Buddhist studies and a center for philosophy. Enryō, who had studied various types of Western learning for seven years at the University of Tokyo, had a deep sense of crisis. The main action points of that are as follows. First, to research the different Western philosophical subjects in order to harmonize them with Buddhist teachings; second, to study physical and biological sciences in order to harmonize the controver-sies between Buddhism and science; and, third, to investigate the na-ture of politics and morality and survey social conditions in order to develop practical ideas for spreading the Buddhist teachings. We have entered an era in which Japan has ended its isolation
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