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"

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

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

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

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