The articles included in these two volumes are the presentations made by the author at different conferences and seminars conducted locally and internationally. Some are contributions to learned journals and some are to felicitation volumes. The author wishes to thank all those organizations and editors for publishing these articles in their official bulletins. Some of the organizations responsible for inviting the author for their conferences to read papers include the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, the Royal Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, the ASCA of Japan, the Pontificial Council of the Vatican, the UNDP for his visit to West Africa, the Mahabodhi Society of India, the Inter Religious Dialogue for is visits to Taiwan and Thailand,the Universities of California, Oxford and London for inviting to read papers at their seminars. The thirty odd articles listed in these two volumes are selected from among the hundred of such written and published papers over the last three decades.