 Nevertheless, this does not mean that they merely gave modern expression to traditional East Asian Buddhist thought. It would be more accurate to say that their philosophies are critical and creative developments of that tradition. But even this way of putting it would not do justice to the influence exerted on their thought by the Western philosophies with which they grappled so intensely. Although Hisamatsu, Nishitani, Ueda and others do explicitly philosophize from the standpoint of Zen, and although Takeuchi, Hase, and others do so from the standpoint of Shin Buddhism, it would be misleading to simply and without qualification characterize either Nishida’s or Tanabe’s multifaceted philosophies as “Eastern” or “Buddhist.”