This special section of Pacific World Journal is a continuation of the conversations held during a panel that I organized for the Buddhism Unit of the 2022 American Academy of Religion (AAR) conference. The panel, titled “Performing Time in Buddhist Literature: Creative Reimaginings of Past, Present, and Future,” included myself and co-panelists Shayne Dahl, Sinae Kim, and Adam Miller, with Chenxing Han serving as our presider. Our respondent, Natalie Gummer, whose own work inspired the inception of this panel, shared very helpful feedback, as did the audience members during the question and answer session that followed. Newer versions of three of the four papers—mine, Shayne’s, and Sinae’s—are included in this special section of Pacific World.