Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation is the current theme for the work of the World Council of Churches. The Council's unit on Dialogue with People of Other Faiths has attempted to use that theme as the focus of interfaith meetings which it has sponsored in recent years. The Christian concept of creation is one that presents some problems for Buddhists. As a result, when a meeting between Asian Buddhists and Christians was organized to meet in Seoul, Korea, in November 1988, the theme was announced as Peace and Justice. Christian and Buddhist participants represented seven Asian countries: Sri Lanka, Tibet, Burma, Thailand, Hong Kong, Korea, andJapan. Three North American observers were invited: Sandy Boucher, a Buddhist writer from Berkeley; David Lochhead, a Christian theologian from Vancouver; and Suwanda Sugunasiri, the president of the Buddhist Council of Canada. The theme of the conference involved Buddhists and Christians sharing concerns relating to issues of justice and peace in contemporary Asia. Reflecting the nature of the theme, the participants were drawn from a variety of backgrounds -social activists, the religious, academics, and bureaucrats of church and sangha. The strength of this kind of dialogue is the richness that the different perspectives contribute to the conversation. The weakness is a certain sacrifice of depth, which a more narrowly defined group might provide. Christians are, on the whole, more at home with the integration of religious faith with and political concerns. Liberation theology and its predecessors have provided Christians with a language for dealing with contemporary peace and justice questions. Among Buddhists, a social Dharma is somewhat less developed. For some of the Christians, the most significant aspect of this meeting was the opportunity to participate with Asian Buddhists as they struggled with the concept of duhkha. The first major Buddhist speaker was Lily de Silva of Sri Lanka. De Silva is a scholar, and she attempted to give the meeting a basic overview of Buddhist teachings and how, in her view, a Buddhist might translate the teachings into action. To help create a peaceful and just society, de Silva advocated