Issue 1 Volume 3 March 2017

CONTENTS

Special Issue：Modern Chinese Buddhism

The dawn of modern Buddhism contacts between Chinese and Japanese Buddhism in the late nineteenth century

Jidong Chen        

Politics in the Translation of Buddhist Texts Timothy Richard and the Awakening of Faith

Jun Gong        

The Wuchang ideal Buddhist education and identity production in Republican China

Rongdao Lai        

Conservative culture la mode contemporary Chinese Buddhism facing globalization

Silong Li        

Increased production and education - the new modern Buddhist thought and practice of monk Juzan

Xiangping Li        

The administration of sites for Buddhist activities in the big data era in mainland China

Kai Sheng        

Issue 2 Volume 3 2017

CONTENTS

Articles

Yi jie wei shi 以戒為師: theory and practice of monastic discipline in modern and contemporary Chinese Buddhism

Ester Bianchi        

Imposing the rules reform and rebellion at Gushan Yongquan Monastery in the 1930s

Daniela Campo        

Inclusion and exclusion two modes of Daoist mysticism

Cheng Lesong        

The Buddhist canon of Ximing Monastery and Tang China

Ru Zhan        

Book Review

Island of Guanyin Mount Putuo and Its Gazetteers by Marcus Bingenheimer

Courtney Bruntz        

Issue 3 Volume 3 September 2017

CONTENTS

Special Issue:Revisiting the Revival: Holmes Welch and the Study of Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China

Introduction

Revisiting the revival Holmes Welch and the study of Buddhism in twentieth century China

Erik Hammerstroma and Gregory Adam Scott        

Articles

Buddhist building and the Buddhist revival in the work of Holmes Welch

Gregory Adam Scott        

Buddhist education between tradition modernity and networks reconsidering the ‘revival’ of education for the Sa gha in twentieth century China

Stefania Travagnin        

Making a Tibetan sect in twentieth century China

Wei Wu        

Taking Welch and The Practice of Chinese Buddhism into the 21st century

Brian J. Nichols        

Narratives of Buddhist decline and the concept of the sect zong in modern Chinese Buddhist thought

Erik Schicketanz        

Book Reviews

Goddess on the frontier: religion, ethnicity, and gender in southwest China by Megan Bryson

Chu?n-fang Yu?        

Issue 4 Volume 3 December 2017

CONTENTS

Articles

The ‘biography’ of a Buddha image: the transformation of the lore for a stone image of Maitreya in Shicheng

Jinhua Chen        

‘Circles of light’ and ‘treasure ships’ in the Visualizing Amitāyus Tableaux with a focus on some cases in Sichuan from the Tang and Five Dynasties period

Mingli Sun        

Book Review

China Christianity and the question of culture by Yang Huilin

Marián Gálik        

The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng a millennium of adaptation and endurance edited by Anson H. Laytner and Jordan Pape

Elijah Teitelbaum