Pacific World 2025
a hundred years in the making
The editorial committee is pleased to announce that the sixth issue in the fourth series of Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies celebrating the 100th anniversary of the journal is now available for download at <link>.
Pacific World is an annual, open-access, and anonymous peer-reviewed journal devoted to the dissemination of historical, textual, critical, and interpretive studies of Buddhism across all traditions and historical periods and is funded through the generosity of BDK America.
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Alexander James O’Neill, “Transcendent Understanding: Rennyo’s Soteriology and Plotinus’ Dialectic in Dialogue.”
Bruno M. Shirley, “Buddhist Poetics in Medieval Sri Lanka: The Muvadev-dā-vataReconsidered.”
Li Shen, “When Indian ‘Victorious Crown Ornament’ Encounters China: A Study on the Ritual Texts, Imagery, and the History of Buddhist Teachings Related to the Uṣṇīṣavijayā Maṇḍala During the Song-Yuan Period (960–1368).”
SPECIAL SECTION: AMERICAN BUDDHISM, RACE, & POWER
Jesse J. Lee, “Introduction to the Special Section on American Buddhism, Race, and Power.”
Kirby Sokolow, “Buddhist Exceptionalism Behind Bars.”
Elaine Lai, “What Hope? Staying with the Trouble of America’s Racial Karma.”
Girim Jung, “Imagined and Realized Black-Asian Solidarity and American Buddhism.”
SPECIAL SECTION: BUDDHIST CHAPLAINCY IN THE UNITED STATES & JAPAN
Lilu Chen & Nancy Lin, “Introduction to the Special Section on Foundations of Buddhist Chaplaincy: A Japan-US Dialogue.”
Daijaku Kinst, “Foundations and Dialogues in Buddhist Chaplaincy.”
Jitsujo T. Gauthier, “Contemporary Approaches to Buddhist Pedagogy for Chaplaincy Education.”
Elaine Yuen, “A Community-Based Disaster Chaplaincy Education Program.”
TAKAHASHI Eigo, “Caring For Ōtsuchi Town after the Great East Japan Earthquake.”
KIGOSHI Yasushi, “The Great East Japan Earthquake and Reconsidering ‘Buddhism’: Do Our Lives Come to Nothing after Death?”
HIRANO Shunkō, “Reflections on My Experiences Working as a Death Row Chaplain in Japan.”
BOOK REVIEWS
Dhivan Jones, “Rethinking Meditation: Buddhist Meditative Practices in Ancient and Modern Worlds by David L. McMahan.”
Manshi Yadav, “Learning from the West, Learning from the East: The Emergence of the Study of Buddhism in Japan and Europe Before 1900 edited by Stephen Kigensan Licha and Hans Martin Kräme.”
Alexander James O’Neill, “Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism by Aaron P. Proffitt.”
Richard K. Payne, “The Buddhist Tantras: A Guide by David B. Gray.”
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