An annual, open-access journal funded by BDK America loosely affiliated with the Jōdo Shinshū Tradition.

Articles Featured in our Library:

The Buddha’s Sons: In Favor of Orthodoxy (1983) – Elson Snow

Early Buddhism: A Conversation with Kalupahana (1991) – Richard K. Payne and David J. Kalupahana

On separating out early from later Buddhism and why it matters.

Featured in the course, " The Buddha's Words"

Nibbāna and Saññvedayitanirodha: An Endless Controversy (1993) – Mathieu Boisvert

Imperial Ritual in the Heisei Era: A Report on Research (1994) – Edmund Gilday

A Rough Sketch of Central Asian Buddhism (2002) – Kogi Kudara

Featured in the course, " Buddhism as a Religion"

The Buddhist Culture of the Old Uigur Peoples (2002) – Kogi Kudara

After they migrated into the oasis cities on the Silk Route in the latter half of the ninth century, some remained Manichaeans. Some aristocratic Uigurs converted to Christianity when they encountered Nestorian missionaries. However, the majority of Uigurs, including common people, became Buddhists.

The Nature of the World in Nineteenth-Century Khmer Buddhist Literature (2003) – Anne Hansen

T0389 佛垂般涅槃略說敎誡經: The Sutra of the Teachings Left Behind by the Buddha (2004)

Christina “the Astonishing” Meets the Tibetans Returning from the Beyond (2007) – Paul Williams

Christina of Saint-Trond (1150–1224) experienced what we would nowadays call a “near-death experience.”

On Silence (2008) – Hogen Bays

Theravāda in History (2009) – Peter Skilling

Paths across Borders: Comparative Reflections on Japanese and Indo-Tibetan Models of the Buddhist Path (2010) – David L. Gardiner

On the Subject of Abhiṣeka (2011) – Charles D. Orzech

Self-transformation According to Buddhist Stages of the Path Literature (2012) – Jared R. Lindahl

Study of Buddhist Tantra: An Impressionistic Overview (2018) – Richard K. Payne

Self-Referential Passages in Mahāyāna Sutra Literature (2020) – Alexander James O'Niell