Contents:
- Forest as Challenge, Forest as Healer: Reinterpretations and Hybridity within the Forest Tradition of Thailand
by Brooke Schedneck [ download ] - Awakening Faith in the Pure Land Section of the Qixinlun
by Christopher Callahan [ download ] - Monastic Lineages and Ritual Participation: A Proposed Revision of Kuroda Toshio’s Kenmitsu Taisei
by Mikaël Bauer [ download ] - Selected Materials for the Study of the Life of Buddha Śākyamuni
by Charles Willemen [ download ]
Special Section:
Recent Research on Esoteric Buddhism
- The Purification of Heruka: Reflections on Identity Formation in Late Indian Buddhism
by David B. Gray [ download ] - A Brief Exploration of Late Indian Buddhist Exegeses of the “Mantrayāna” and “Mantranaya”
by Vesna A. Wallace [ download ] - On the Subject of Abhiṣeka
by Charles D. Orzech [ download ] - The Life of the Tang Court Monk Vajrabodhi as Chronicled by Lü Xiang (呂向): South Indian and Śrī Laṅkān Antecedents to the Arrival of the Buddhist Vajrayāna in Eighth-Century Java and China
by Jeffrey Sundberg, in collaboration with Rolf Giebel [ download ] - Ritual Studies in the Longue Durée: Comparing Shingon and Śaiva Siddhānta Homas
by Richard K. Payne [ download ]
Book Reviews: [ download ]
Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics, by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen
— Reviewed by Steffen Döll
Yongming Yanshou’s Conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu, by Albert Welter
— Reviewed by Courtney Bruntz
Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture, by Jane Naomi Iwamura
— Reviewed by Kendall Marchman
BDK ENGLISH TRIPIṬAKA SERIES: A PROGRESS REPORT [ download ]