This pioneering volume lays the basis for a full-scale dialogue between two traditions long kept apart: Buddhism and Neoplatonism. Cultivating both philosophical sophistication and intensive historical exploration, the fourteen authors, all seasoned specialists, course through questions of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, religion, and history, conscious of the great promise opened up by intersection between eastern and western thought. Each of the essays, drawn from the inaugural International Symposium on Buddhism and Neoplatonism (Musashino University, Tokyo, 2024), has a firm foot in both camps, and demonstrate how a bridge can be built with scholarly rigor between elements from Buddhist and Neoplatonic thought. In the process ancient concepts come alive again as their healing and enlightening application to today's anxieties is discovered, This fusion of east and west, ancient and modern, yields new insights into fundamental religious, philosophical, and cultural issues. The result is a book that will be a treasured resource not only for scholars but for all who seek to appropriate the inexhaustible wisdom of Buddhism and Neoplatonism.