A new, bilingual (English and Chinese) journal founded in 2018 by Peking University, funded by the Glorisun Charitable Foundation, and facilitated by the University of British Columbia and Cambria Press, the Hualin Journal highlights interdisciplinary, multi-media, and cross-cultural academic research on a variety of topics related to Buddhist Studies.

Articles Featured in our Library:

The Buddhist Caves in Western Deccan, India, between the Fifth and Sixth Centuries (2018) – Pia Brancaccio

The Historical Turn: How Chinese Buddhist Travelogues Changed Western Perception of Buddhism (2018) – Max Deeg

Images and Monasteries in Faxian’s Account on Anurādhapura (2019) – Haewon Kim

Featured in the course, " Buddhism as a Religion"

Faxian and the Establishment of the Pilgrimage Tradition of Qiufa (Dharma-searching) (2019) – Ji Yun 紀贇

But the Bodhisattva, unwilling to ask anyone for help, plucks up his courage, and goes out with his basket and cutting tool and cuts grass. He sells the grass and ekes out a meager living, giving what he can to those in need.

Organizational Theory in Buddhism (2019) – Sasaki Shizuka

Watanabe Kaigyoku and Buddhist Responses to the ‘Labour Question’ in Early-Twentieth Century Japan (2019) – Cameron Penwell

A Virtuoso Nun in the North: Situating the Earliest-Known Dated Biography of a Buddhist Nun in East Asia (2020) – Stephanie Balkwill

Xuanzang à Paris: The European Reception of the Japanese Buddhist World Map (2021) – D. Max Moerman

While for Huisong, China was indeed a center of Buddhist studies as opposed to the ‘barbaric’ Gaochang, Xuanzang and Puguang most likely regarded China as a Buddhist borderland as opposed to India.

Pure Land and Netherworld: An Essential Combination (2021) – Barend J. ter Haar