We are proud to announce the launch of Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies. This peer-reviewed journal highlights interdisciplinary, multi-sourced, multi-media, and cross-cultural academic research about Buddhism. The journal welcomes submissions in the areas of the history of religions, literary studies, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South and Southeast Asian, Tibetan, and Tangut manuscript studies, Dunhuang studies, doctrinal studies using rare sources, art historical perspectives, institutional history, anthropological research, sociopolitical studies, and comparative, philosophical studies.
The inaugural issue (Volume 1 No.1) is a special issue on Buddhism in the West. For more details on this special issue, please read our Message from the Editor.
Articles included in this special issue are:
- Kim Jongmyung
Korea’s Possible Contribution to the Printing Technology in Europe: A Historical Survey - Max Deeg
The Historical Turn: How Chinese Buddhist Travelogues Changed Western Perception of Buddhism - Hou Xiaoming
Where is God? Evolution of the representation of Buddhism in the French Translations of The Sutra of Forty-two Chapters - Hong Xiuping
Regarding the Research and Translations of Buddhist Scripture by Nineteenth Century European Religious Studies Scholars: Using Max Müller as an Example - Sun Yiping
Research and Commentaries on Buddhism by Norwegian Missionary Karl Ludvig Reichelt - Petra H. Rösch
The Birth of Individual Life Concepts: The Influences of Arthur Schopenhauer’s Buddhism on Eduard von der Heydt’s Collection of Buddhist Art - Samuel Thévoz
Staging the Buddha: Victor Segalen’s Siddhârtha and the Unsettlement of Western Culture - T. H. Barrett
Arthur Waley, Xu Zhimo, and the Reception of Buddhist Art in Europe: A Neglected Source - Stefania Travagnin
Reception History and Limits of Interpretation: The Belgian Étienne Lamotte, Japanese Buddhologists, the Chinese monk Yinshun 印順 and the Formation of a Global ‘Da zhidu lun 大智度論 Scholarship’ - Daniele Parbuono
The Centre of the Centre: The Buddhist Temple and the Chinese New Year in the Prato Urban Space - Carsten Krause
Adapting Chinese Buddhism to Religious Life in Contemporary Germany: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-first Century
Our next issue (Vol. 1, No. 2) will be a special issue on Buddhist Arts.
