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Pacific World Journal

Third Series Number 13
Fall 2011

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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

BDK ENGLISH TRIPIṬAKA SERIES: A PROGRESS REPORT   [ download ]

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