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Vol. 8.1 (May 2025)
Special Issue: Asia-European Exchanges Mediated through Buddhism, Buddhism and Medicine: New Perspectives
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.08.01

Editorial Note

—— Asia-European Exchanges Mediated through Buddhism ——
Tao and Zen in Early Twentieth-Century Britain: An Inauthentic Religion?
T. H. BARRETT

From Dharma Talk to Religious Sentiment: Chinese Buddhist Encounters with the Religious Psychology of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Ludwig Feuerbach, 1912–1949
Richard ELLGUTH

The Complexities of Orientalism: William Knighton and His Representation of Buddhism
Elizabeth J. HARRIS

Buddhism and Philosophy in Europe
Rafal K. STEPIEN

—— Buddhism and Medicine: New Perspectives ——
Beyond ‘Buddhism’ and ‘Medicine’: State Policies and Medical Pluralism in Contemporary Rakhine (Myanmar)
Céline CODEREY

The Dawn of the Physician: A Buddhist Approach to the History of Medicine
Federico DIVINO

The Bodhisattva Physician in Tibet: Instituting Professional Medical Ethics at Sakya Monastery
William A. MCGRATH

On the Borderlands of Religion and Science: Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Contemplative Traditions and Psychedelic Medicine
Stuart Ray SARBACKER

—— Book Reviews ——
Gregory Evon. Salvaging Buddhism to Save Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910)
Richard D. MCBRIDE II

Aaron P. Proffitt. Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism
Georgios T. HALKIAS

Vol. 7.2 (October 2024)
Special Issue: Ritual and Materiality in Buddhism and Asian Religions
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.07.02

Ritual and Materiality in Buddhism and Asian Religions: Editorial Note
Stephen F. TEISER and Shih-shan Susan HUANG

Arhat Cave Beliefs as Seen in Four Stele Inscriptions and the Daitoku ji Five Hundred Arhats Paintings
Shufen LIU 劉淑芬, translated by Echo WENG

Against Impermanence: Women, Ritual, and Materiality in Early Medieval China
Kate LINGLEY

Negotiating Boundaries: A Comparative Study of the Shuilu (Water-Land) Rituals in Late Imperial China
Jingyu LIU 劉婧瑜

Beneficial to Behold: Buddhist Vision and Efficacy in the Qing Empire
Wen-shing CHOU 周文欣

Time and Materials at the Changhe Temple in Hsinchu Taiwan
Chuck WOOLDRIDGE

Entangling Bodies and Places: Material Agency in Urbanizing
Keping WU and Wenxuan YANG 楊文渲

Ritualized Word: Material Networks in Thirteenth-Century Japan
Susan DINE

The Material Imagination of a Japanese Tendai Welcoming Descent of Amida Embroidery
Carolyn WARGULA

Embedding Prayers in Cotton, Ramie, and Silk: The Symbolism of Textiles in Datsueba Worship
Chihiro SAKA 坂知尋

Material Evidence for Ritual Chant in Early Modern Siam: Leporello Manuscripts as Affordances for Deathbed Rites
Trent WALKER

—— Book Review ——
Albert Welter. A Tale of Two Stūpas: Diverging Paths in the Revival of Buddhism in China
James BENN

John R. McRae. Zen Evangelist: Shenhui, Sudden Enlightenment, and the Southern School of Chan Buddhism
Jiang WU

Vol. 7.1 (May 2024)
Special Issue: Buddhism and Science, Transmission of Buddhism: Locality and Globality
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.07.01

—— Buddhism and Science ——
Meditating Online ‘Alone Together’: Two Case Studies of Digital Buddhist Practice
Jessica FALCONE

Japanese Explorers in the Footsteps of Xuanzang
Imre GALAMBOS

Therapeutics and Botany in Medieval Japan: The Monk Shinjaku-bо̄ in Context
Alessandro POLETTO

—— Transmission of Buddhism: Locality and Globality ——
Persistence of Sino-centric Ideologies in Korean Buddhism: The Rhetoric of Sino-centrism in the Chosŏn Period Buddhist Literature
Sung-Eun T. KIM

Meta-ethical Pluralism in Longlian’s Socially Engaged Buddhism
Jingjing LI 李晶晶

The Three Truths as Madhyamaka Exegesis: Tiantai and its Relationship to the Thought of Nāgārjuna
Jackson MACOR

The Tangut versions of the Zhonghua chuan xindi chan men shizi chengxi tu by Guifeng Zongmi
Kiril SOLONIN

Imperial Patronage and Scriptural Authority: Three Sui Buddhist Cataloguers and Their Memorials to the Emperor
TAN Yingxian 談穎嫻

—— Book Reviews ——
Yiwen Li. Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839–1403 CE
Jeffrey KOTYK

Duncan Ryūken Williams. American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
Sara LAWS

Jimmy Yu. Reimagining Chan Buddhism: Sheng Yen and the Creation of the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan
Caiyang XU 徐采揚

Vol. 6.2 (October 2023)
Special Issue: Religion and Local Society
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.06.02

What is Local Buddhism?
Timothy BROOK

Popular Reverence and Commercial Publishing in Late Ming Hagiographic Literature
Noga GANANY

The Pedagogical Philosophy of a Village Schoolteacher in Nineteenth-Century Sichuan
Johanna LIDÉN

A Buddhist Christian Encounter in Late Ming Dynasty: New Insights from the Chengdu Conflict of 1643–1644
Thierry MEYNARD 梅謙立

Religion as a Binding Force in Urban Society: The 1313–1314 Restoration of the Travelling Palace of the Eastern Marchmount in Changxing Prefecture (Zhejiang)
Barend J. TER HAAR

Monastic and Political Culture in the Late Period of the Northern Dynasties: ‘National’ Monasteries, Political Districts, and Battle Sites
Bin WEI 魏斌, translated by Matthew ORSBORN

—— Research Articles ——
A Study on the Traditional Chinese Notion of Lama Jiao
Bo HUANG 黃勃

Ximing Monastery and International Exchanges
Ru ZHAN 湛如, translated by Luke GIBSON

—— Book Review ——
Huaiyu Chen. In the Land of Tigers and Snakes
Guo WU 伍國

Paul Groner. Precepts, Ordinations, and Practice in Medieval Japanese Tendai
Alessandro POLETTO

Vol. 6.1 (May 2023)
Special Issue: Buddhist Narrative Literature
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.06.01

Parasutraic Narratives and Cultic Repertoire: The Plurality of Afterlife Abode in the Tang Lotus Sūtra Cult
Chiew Hui HO 何秋輝

Chan With This-Worldly Cares: Hu Pu’an 胡樸安 (1878–1947) and his ‘Matching Hanshan’ 和寒山 Poems
Chin-fung NG 伍展楓

Understanding Chan Kōan As a Literary Genre
Ben VAN OVERMEIRE

Framing the Path to Awakening: Tibetan Adaptations of the Jātaka Genre
Ulrike ROESLER

Evaṃ Me Sutaṃ: Who Heard What?
Peter SKILLING

Fragrance Offering as a Call for Rescue: The Sumāgadhā / Sumatī Story Illustrated in the Kizil Grottoes
Ji Ho YI 李智浩

The Vicissitudes of the Story of Therī Paṭācārā: From Early Buddhism to the Mahāyāna
Haoqin ZHONG 鍾昊沁

Maitreya, the Saviour? Enigmatic ‘Mahābodhisatvas’ in Kucha
Monika ZIN

—— Book Reviews ——
John Kieschnick. Buddhist Historiography in China
Marcus BINGENHEIMER

Stephen C. Berkwitz and Ashley Thompson, eds. Routledge Handbook of Theravāda Buddhism
Jason CARBINE

Vol. 5.2 (October 2022)
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.05.02

‘Introduction’ to the Forthcoming Histories of Chan (Zen)
T. Griffith FOULK

Dunhuang Manuscript Liturgies and Their Models: Classification and Naming
HAO Chunwen 郝春文

On the Authorship of the *Śūraṃgama-sūtra Ascribed to *Pāramiti
George A. KEYWORTH

Buddhist Worldmaking in the American Midcentury
Sara LAWS

Chapter 24 of the Book of Zambasta: A New Version of the Prophecy of the End of Buddhism in the Candragarbha sūtra
LIU Yi 劉屹

Conceptualisation and ‘World-Making’: A Study on Prapañca as an Imprint in Yogācāra Treatises
WANG Beier 王蓓兒

Precepts and the Calculation of Time: The Case of the Buddhist Monk Yixing
ZHAN Ru 湛如

—— Book Reviews ——
C.V. Jones. The Buddhist Self: On Tathāgatagarbha and Ātman
Bart DESSEIN

Charles S. Prebish and On-cho Ng. The Theory and Practice of Zen Buddhism: A Festschrift in Honor of Steven Heine
George A. KEYWORTH

—— Event Report ——
Report of Religions and Local Society in the Historical, Comparative, and Theoretical Perspectives: A Conference in Honour of Professor Timothy Brook (August 12–14, 2022)
Xiangjun FENG 馮相郡

Report of How Zen Became Chan: Pre-modern and Modern Representations of a Transnational East Asian Buddhist Tradition (July 29–31, 2022)
Marcel WERBIK

Vol. 5.1 (May 2022)
Special Issue: Text and Image & Buddhist Biography
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.05.01

—— Text and Image ——
Daoxuan and the Medieval Chinese Encounter with Relics and Images
Nelson LANDRY

The Transmission of the Four-Pointed Cape Motif: From Gandhāra to the East and West
LI Yicong 李怡淙

Kuaiji’s 會稽 ‘Forgotten Century’, the Cult of Yu 大禹, and Kuaiji Today
Michael NYLAN and Thomas HAHN

From Scriptural to Familial: Textual Shifts of Zunsheng Dhāranī Tomb Pillars in Middle Period Northern Shanxi
WANG Jinping 王錦萍

Beetles and the Buddha: The Tamamushi Shrine, Smallpox, and Healing in Seventh-Century Japan
Yingxue WANG 王映雪

—— Buddhist Biography ——
Borges, Buddha’s Life Story, and the Transmission of Buddhism to Latin America
Margarita DELGADO CREAMER

In-Between Biography: Ramacharana’s Shankaradeva and Amar Singh’s Surdas
Jack Stratton HAWLEY

The Monk Mūlaphalguna and the Nuns: Biography as Criticism
Gregory SCHOPEN

The Account of How Nichiren Miraculously Escaped Beheading and Its Modern Critics: History and Hagiography in a Japanese Buddhist Tradition
Jacqueline I. STONE

Protection of the Dharma: Daoxuan and Three Types of Hufa in the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks
ZHAO Shanshan (Alice) 趙珊珊

—— Book Reviews ——
Eric M. Greene. Chan before Chan: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism
Christoph ANDERL

C. Pierce Salguero. A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine
William A. MCGRATH

Vol. 4.2 (October 2021)
Special Issue: The Wheel that Crossed the Borders: Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Religions
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.04.02

‘Method from Persia’: Study on the Origins of the ‘Three Myrobalan Decoction’
Ming CHEN 陳明

Dunhuang Non-governmental Organisations Specialising in Undertaking Buddhist Activities and Their Relationship with Buddhism
HAO Chunwen 郝春文

From Huisong 慧嵩 (fl. 511–560) to Xuanzang 玄奘 (602?–664): The ‘Borderland Complex’ in the Transmission of Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma
Lu HUANG 黃露

The Study of Sanskrit in Medieval East Asia: China and Japan
Jeffrey KOTYK

a href=”https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.04.02.05″>Capitalism and Exchange: Economic Contexts of Buddhism
Richard K. PAYNE

Heroic Śāktism with Chinese Characteristics: The Female Warrior Sovereign Prophecy, the Navarātri, and a Trio of Devīs of War in the Accession of Female Emperor Wu Zhao
†Norman Harry ROTHSCHILD

Pojo Chinul 普照知訥 (1158–1210), the Fabaoji tanjing 法寶記壇經, and the Evolution of the Platform Sūtra
Morten SCHLÜTTER

Borderland Complexes and Translocations: How a Japanese Tendai Monk Discovered Chan/Zen Buddhism in an Indian Buddhist Homeland in the Hangzhou Region
Albert WELTER

—— Book Reviews ——
Reischauer, Edwin O., trans. Ennin’s Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law
Reischauer, Edwin O. Ennin’s Travels in T’ang China
George A. KEYWORTH

Shen, Hsueh-man. Authentic Replicas: Buddhist Art in Medieval China
Winston KYAN

Yü, Chün-fang. Chinese Buddhism: A Thematic History
Elizabeth MORRISON

Vol 4.1 (May 2021)
Special Issue: Buddhist Worldmaking Programs & Tiantai/Chontae/Tendai Buddhism
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.04.01

—— Buddhist Worldmaking Programs ——
Making Four Buddhist Worlds: A Reading of the Liturgies for Creating Ritual Spaces in Dunhuang Manuscripts
Huaiyu CHEN 陳懷宇

Śākyamuni Buddha World Depicted in Vimalakīrti Scenes in Dunhuang Mogao Caves: The Expansion of Buddha Land to China
Tamami HAMADA 濱田瑞美

She Association Documents from Dunhuang and the Study of Medieval She Association
HAO Chunwen 郝春文

Xuanzang à Paris: The European Reception of the Japanese Buddhist World Map
D. Max MOERMAN

Pure Land and Netherworld: An Essential Combination
Barend J. TER HAAR

—— Tiantai/Chontae/Tendai Buddhism ——
A Short History of an Abbreviated Tang Tiantai Text
T. H. BARRETT

From Tiantaishan to Hieizan: The View from the Keiran Shūyō Shū 渓嵐拾葉集
Bernard FAURE

The Tendai Use of Official Documents in the Ninth Century: Revisiting the Case of Monk Daosui
LIN Peiying 林佩瑩

A Treasure-house of Tendai manuscripts Stored at a Shingon Branch Center: Kongōji 金剛寺 of Amanosan 天野山
OCHIAI Toshinori 落合俊典

The Circulation and Reception of Tiantai Commentaries on the Vimalakīrti-sūtra in East Asia
YAMAGUCHI Hiroe 山口弘江

The Merging of Tiantai and Vinaya: The Monks of Ximing Monastery and Mount Tiantai
Ru ZHAN 湛如

—— Book Reviews ——
Li, Yuhang. Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China
Lang CHEN 陳朗

Davis, Erik W. Deathpower: Buddhism’s Ritual Imagination in Cambodia
Paul CHRISTENSEN

Bryson, Megan. Goddess on the Frontier: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China
Jeffrey KOTYK

Vol 3.2 (October 2020)
Special Issue: Buddhism and Technology, and Epigraphy
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.03.02

Enaction, Convolution and Conceptualism: An AI-Based Exploration of Dharmakīrti’s Perception and Conception
Justin BRODY

A Buddhist Contribution to Artificial Intelligence?
Douglas DUCKWORTH

Machine Learning, Plant Learning, and the Destabilization of Buddhist Psychology
Charles GOODMAN

The Intelligence Revolution and the New Great Game: A Buddhist Reflection on the Personal and Societal Predicaments of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
Peter D. HERSHOCK

Buddha in the Chinese Room: Empty Persons, Other Mindstreams, and the Strong AI Debate
Joshua STOLL

Zen, Motorcycles and Burning Buddhas
Christian WITTERN

A Virtuoso Nun in the North: Situating the Earliest-Known Dated Biography of a Buddhist Nun in East Asia
Stephanie BALKWILL

Against Epigraphy: Once More a Visit to Zen and History
T. H. BARRETT

Imprinting the Living Rock with Buddhist Texts: On the Creation of a Regional Sacred Geography in Shandong in the Second Half of the Sixth Century
Claudia WENZEL

—— Book Reviews ——
Wang Yong 王勇, Dongya wenhua huanliu shijiang 東亞文化環流十講 [Ten Lectures on East Asian Cultural Circulation]
JIN Yongzhen 金鏞鎮

Zhang, Dewei, Thriving in Crisis: Buddhism and Political Disruption in China, 1522–1620
OUYANG Nan 歐陽楠

Welter, Albert, The Administration of Buddhism in China: A Study and Translation of Zanning and the Topical Compendium of the Buddhist Clergy (Da Song Seng shilüe 大宋僧史略)
Stuart H. YOUNG

Vol 3.1 (May 2020)
Special Issue: Manuscript Studies and Xuanzang Studies
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.03.01

An Investigation of the Relationship between Prince Shōtoku’s Shōmangyō-gisho and Two Dunhuang Buddhist Manuscripts: A Debate over Originality and Canonical Value
Mark DENNIS

Colophons by the Tōdaiji monk Sōshō (1202–1278): The Threshold between Text and Paratext
Asuka SANGO

Offerings and the Production of Buddhist Scriptures in Dunhuang during the Tenth Century
Henrik H. SØRENSEN

Prayers for Mediation: Thirteenth-Century Textual Culture between Kōya and Kamakura
Brian STEININGER

On the Transmission of the Verse-text of Sa skya Paṇḍita’s Tshad ma rigs pa’i gter and the Rang ’grel-Auto-commentary
Leonard W.J. VAN DER KUIJP

Survivability: Vasubandhu and Saṅghabhadra on the Continuity of the Life of a Sentient Being as Translated by Xuanzang
Ernest Billings (Billy) BREWSTER

How to Create a Great Monastery: Xuanzang’s Foundation Legend of Nālandā in Its Indian Context
Max DEEG

On Xuanzang and Manuscripts of the *Mahāprajñāpāramitā-sūtra at Dunhuang and in Early Japanese Buddhism
George A. KEYWORTH

How Did Xuanzang Understand Dhāraṇī?: A View from His Translations
Richard D. MCBRIDE II

Context and Text: Historicizing Xuanzang and the Da Tang Xiyu Ji
Guo WU 伍國

Vol 2.2 (October 2019)
Special Issue: Buddhism and Business: South and East Asian Perspectives
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.02.02

Editorial Note
Yongshan HE

Adding Value (with Limits): Pilgrimage and Women’s Exclusion in Japan’s Sacred Mountains
Caleb CARTER

Wisdom-Based Economic Theory as Informed by Buddhism
Otto CHANG

How to Make and Spend Money: Some Stories from Indian Classical Literature
Phyllis GRANOFF

Monastic Investment Bootstrapping: An Economic Model for the Expansion of Early Buddhism
Matthew D. MILLIGAN

Watanabe Kaigyoku and Buddhist Responses to the ‘Labour Question’ in Early-Twentieth Century Japan
Cameron PENWELL

The Mystery of Wealth and the Role of Divinities: The Economy in Pre-Modern Japanese Fiction and Practice
Fabio RAMBELLI

Organizational Theory in Buddhism
SASAKI Shizuka 佐々木 閑

The Business Model of a Buddhist Monasticism: Acquiring Productive Assets
Gregory SCHOPEN

The Buddhist Economies of Modern Urban China
Francesca TAROCCO

Vol 2.1 (May 2019)
Special Issue: Faxian
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.02.01

Faxian and the Meaning of Bianwen 變文: The Value of His Biography to the Study of China
T. H. BARRETT

The Neglected Pilgrim: How Faxian’s Record Was Used (and Was Not Used) in Buddhist Studies
Max DEEG

Faxian and the Establishment of the Pilgrimage Tradition of Qiufa (Dharma-searching)
JI Yun 紀贇

The Other Great Chinese Trepiṭaka in Japan: Faxian as Translator and Pilgrim in Medieval Japanese Manuscript Canons
George A. KEYWORTH

Images and Monasteries in Faxian’s Account on Anurādhapura
KIM Haewon 김혜원（金惠瑗）

Sites of Caṅkrama (Jingxing 經行) in Faxian’s Record
KIM Minku 金玟求

Faxian and Liu Yu’s Inner Circle: Interactions between Society and Buddhism during the Eastern Jin Dynasty
LIU Yuan-ju 劉苑如

Was the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra 大般涅槃經 T7 Translated by ‘Faxian’?: An Exercise in the Computer-Assisted Assessment of Attributions in the Chinese Buddhist Canon
Michael RADICH

Faxian and the Construction of the Buddha’s Shadow Platform at Mount Lu
WANG Bangwei 王邦維

Mahāsāṃghika and Mahāyāna: An Analysis of Faxian and the Translation of the Mahāsāṃghika Vinaya (Chin. Mohe Sengqi Lü)
ZHAN Ru 湛如

The Biography of Faxian: On the Practice and Spread of Chinese Buddhist Precepts during the Jin and Song Dynasties (Fourth–Fifth Century CE)
ZHANG Xuesong 張雪松

Vol 1.2 (October 2018)
Special Issue: Buddhist Arts
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.01.02

The Buddhist Caves in Western Deccan, India, between the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
Pia BRANCACCIO

Reading Medieval Buddhist Manuscripts: Thoughts on Text and Image
Phyllis GRANOFF

On the ‘Shintō’ Statues of Matsuo Shrine: Tendai Buddhist Rituals, Iconography, and Veneration in Japan and China
George A. KEYWORTH

The Transmission of Ornaments in Buddhist Art: On the Meander or Huiwen
Jeong-hee LEE-KALISCH

The Arhats and Their Legacy in the Visual Arts of East Asia
Beatrix MECSI

The Ritual of the Buddhoṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Maṇḍala
Koichi SHINOHARA

The Relationship Between the Tangut Art and Textual Heritage: Some Observations
Kirill SOLONIN

Shamans, Mediums, and Chinese Buddhism: A Brief Reconnaissance
Barend J. TER HAAR

Liuli in Buddhist Rituals and Art in Medieval China
YU Xin

Vol 1.1 (May 2018)
Special Issue: Buddhism in the West
https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.01.01

Korea’s Possible Contribution to the Printing Technology in Europe: A Historical Survey
KIM Jongmyung

The Historical Turn: How Chinese Buddhist Travelogues Changed Western Perception of Buddhism
Max DEEG

Where is God? Evolution of the representation of Buddhism in the French Translations of The Sutra of Forty-two Chapters
HOU Xiaoming

Regarding the Research and Translations of Buddhist Scripture by Nineteenth Century European Religious Studies Scholars: Using Max Müller as an Example
HONG Xiuping

Research and Commentaries on Buddhism by Norwegian Missionary Karl Ludvig Reichelt
SUN Yiping

The Birth of Individual Life Concepts: The Influences of Arthur Schopenhauer’s Buddhism on Eduard von der Heydt’s Collection of Buddhist Art
Petra H. RÖSCH

Staging the Buddha: Victor Segalen’s Siddhârtha and the Unsettlement of Western Culture
Samuel THÉVOZ

Arthur Waley, Xu Zhimo, and the Reception of Buddhist Art in Europe: A Neglected Source
T. H. BARRETT

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’
Stefania TRAVAGNIN

The Centre of the Centre: The Buddhist Temple and the Chinese New Year in the Prato Urban Space
Daniele PARBUONO

Adapting Chinese Buddhism to Religious Life in Contemporary Germany: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-first Century
Carsten KRAUSE