The editorial intent of the fourth series of Pacific World, an anonymous peer-reviewed journal, is to provide a venue for the publication of high quality research on contemporary issues— intellectual, academic, historical, textual, and social—in Buddhism, with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on the Shin tradition. Essays employ a variety of different methodological orientations, such as doctrinal, philosophic, sociological, psychological, textual, ritual, and biographical approaches, among others. The journal is intended to reach both the educated lay Buddhist community and the academic community of Buddhist studies scholars. To this end it is offered open-access to the public.

Suggestions for guest edited special sections or special issues will be considered. Special sections/issues should be thematically linked, such as for example, proceedings of a conference, or the presentations from a panel at a professional conference. Essays submitted as part of such special sections/issues will be individually reviewed.

Articles for consideration by the Pacific World should be submitted in English and addressed to:
Dr. Natalie Fisk Quli
Chief Editor, Pacific World Journal
natalie@shin-ibs.edu

Include in your email the title of submission and contact information, while excluding any personal identifying references in the paper itself. The submission as such is to include an abstract of one hundred to two hundred words and a list of five to ten keywords. There is no mandatory minimum or maximum word count.

Please review the AI Use Policy before submission.

Pacific World Style Guide for Authors (PDF)

Under Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies’ publication policy, authors retain full copyright of their contributions and are free to reuse, adapt, and republish their work in any form and for any purpose. No permission from the journal is required for the author to reproduce their work in whole or in part, and in any format, although we do request a credit line including full publication details for the Pacific World publication. Pacific World retains a nonexclusive right to reprint the article in future issues of the journal and in volumes published under the Institute of Buddhist Studies’ series, Contemporary Issues in Buddhist Studies (CIBS), and other publication projects of the IBS. Pacific World retains unlimited license, internationally and for all media, including via the IBS and Pacific World websites, where it is freely downloadable.