Journal of Global Buddhism, Special Issue: The Family in Modern Buddhism

by Franz Metcalf

Dear Colleagues,

I’m very happy to announce the publication of the Journal of Global Buddhism’s second Special Focus issue for 2015, this time on the subject of "The Family in Modern Buddhism." Below are its contents.

"Introduction: Tensions between Families and Religious Institutions"
Franz Metcalf and Vanessa Sasson

"The Fantastic Stories of Könchok Paldrön and her Enlightened Children"
Joel Gruber

"The Family and Legacy of the Early Northern Treasure Tradition"
Jay Valentine

"Family Temples and Religious Learning in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism"
Jessica Starling

"The Childhood of Dorjé Sangwatsel (b. 1814) and the Theme of the Deficient Parent in Tibetan Hagiography"
Benjamin Wood

"Soka Gakkai Families in the UK: Observations from a Fieldwork Study"
Helen Waterhouse

Further details, including the text of all the articles (fully open access, as all scholarly journals should be) await you on the JGB website.

All good wishes,

Franz Metcalf
CSULA
mind2mind.net

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PUBLICATION> Indica et Buddhica Scholiast to be published Nov 2015 (Richard Mahoney) [discussion]

by Richard Mahoney

Dear Colleagues,

Scholiast is a new subscription-based service for Buddhist Studies researchers:

 Indica et Buddhica Scholiast

 http://indica-et-buddhica.org/scholia-scholiast/scholiast

It provides structured bibliographic data on books and on the full content of

these journals:

 Scholiast – Journal coverage

 http://indica-et-buddhica.org/scholia-scholiast/scholiast-periodicals-available

Scholiast will be available through Indica et Buddhica Publishers in November 2015. 

Kind regards,

 Richard Mahoney

 Related :: Indica et Buddhica Scholia – Journal coverage

 http://indica-et-buddhica.org/scholia-scholiast/scholia-periodicals-available

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Richard Mahoney

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M: +64-21-064-0216 T: +64-3-312-1699

r.mahoney@indica-et-buddhica.org

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