Pacific World: Third Series Number 16 (2014)

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Contents:

  • Māra Re-Imagined: Stories of the “Evil One” in Changing Contexts
    by Michael D. Nichols   download ]
  • Guṇabhadra to Bodhidharma: The Laṅkāvatāra-Sūtra and the Idea of Preaching without Words
    by Charles Willemen   download ]
  • The Path from Metaphor to Narrative: Gampopa’s Jewel Ornament of Liberation
    by Richard K. Payne   download ]
  • The Abhayagirivihāra’s Pāṃśukūlika Monks in Second Lambakaṇṇa Śrī Laṅkā and Śailendra Java: The Flowering and Fall of a Cardinal Center of Influence in Early Esoteric Buddhism
    by Jeffrey Sundberg   download ]

Book Reviews:   download ]

Immigrants to the Pure Land: The Modernization, Acculturation, and Globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898–1941, by Michihiro Ama
— Jonathan H. X. Lee

Luminous Bliss: A Religious History of Pure Land Literature in Tibet, by Georgios T. Halkias
— Kendall Marchman

Living Karma: The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu, by Beverley Foulks McGuire
— EriK Hammerstrom

BDK ENGLISH TRIPIṬAKA SERIES: A PROGRESS REPORT

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