Reeves, Gene. "Kuan-yin's Skill in Means as an Embodiment of Process Philosophy."  (Conference Paper- International Conference on Creativity and Process: East-West Dialogue 2007).

Abstract

Though the abstract idea of creativity is not emphasized either in Buddhism in general or in the Lotus Sutra, I will show that the enormously influential idea of skillful means explicated in the Lotus Sutra entails an extremely powerful notion of creativity which is comparable on a practical, existential level with Whitehead's fundamentally metaphysical notion.  This will invovle developing an account of the meaning and use of skillful means in the Lotus Sutra and its relation to the common Mahayana Buddhist notion of Buddha-nature, and a more brief account of Whitehead's use of the notion of creativity, especially in Process and Reality.  The two notions, I will claim, are not only compatible, they mutually support each other.