Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies

We are excited to announce the launch of a new journal, Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies, hosted ​in the Research Center for Buddhist Texts and Arts at Peking University (北京大學藝術與典籍研究中心), funded by the Glorisun Charitable Foundation, and facilitated by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) project on Buddhism and East Asian Religions (www.frogbear.org) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Editor-in-chief: Ru ZHAN, Peking University; Associate Editor: Jinhua CHEN, UBC. The journal is published by Cambria Press, an innovative publisher of academic research based in New York, USA (http://www.cambriapress.com/index.cfm).

This peer-reviewed journal publishes academic research using innovative new approaches, methods, materials, and findings obtained through interdisciplinary, multi-sourced, multi-media, and cross-cultural approaches to the study of Buddhism, and welcomes submissions in the areas of the history of religions, literary studies, manuscript studies, Dunhuang studies, doctrinal studies using rare sources, art historical perspectives, institutional history, anthropological research, sociopolitical studies, and comparative, philosophical studies. The journal will also offer book reviews and translations into English of innovative research articles by eminent scholars in East Asia.

To learn more, visit the webpage for the Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies.

The first issue is a Special Issue on Buddhism in the West. View Vol 1.1 table of contents here.

The second issue is a Special Issue on Buddhist Arts. View Vol 1.2 table of contents here.

The third issue is a Special Issue on Faxian. View Vol 2.1 table of contents here.

The fourth issue is a Special Issue on Buddhism and Business: South and East Asian Perspectives. Vol 2.2 table of contents forthcoming.

The fifth issue is a Special Issue on Religious Manuscript Studies. Vol 3.1 table of contents forthcoming.