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Dear friends and colleagues of H-Buddhism,

We would like to announce that the latest two issues of Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies (HIJBS) are available online at https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs. All of the articles are downloadable and open access.

Vol. 3, No. 1, Special Issue on Manuscript Studies and Xuanzang Studies (May 2020)

• Mark Dennis
  An Investigation of the Relationship between Prince Shōtoku’s Shōmangyō-gisho and Two Dunhuang Buddhist Manuscripts: A Debate over Originality and Canonical Value
   
• Asuka Sango
  Colophons by the Tōdaiji monk Sōshō (1202–1278): The Threshold between Text and Paratext
   
• Henrik H. Sørensen
  Offerings and the Production of Buddhist Scriptures in Dunhuang during the Tenth Century
   
• Brian Steininger
  Prayers for Mediation: Thirteenth-Century Textual Culture between Kōya and Kamakura
   
• Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp
  On the Transmission of the Verse-text of Sa skya Paṇḍita’s Tshad ma rigs pa’i gter and the Rang ’grel-Auto-commentary
   
• Ernest Billings (Billy) Brewster
  Survivability: Vasubandhu and Saṅghabhadra on the Continuity of the Life of a Sentient Being as Translated by Xuanzang
   
• Max Deeg
  How to Create a Great Monastery: Xuanzang’s Foundation Legend of Nālandā in Its Indian Context
   
• George A. Keyworth
  On Xuanzang and Manuscripts of the *Mahāprajñāpāramitā-sūtra at Dunhuang and in Early Japanese Buddhism
   
• Richard D. McBride II
  How Did Xuanzang Understand Dhāraṇī?: A View from His Translations
   
• Guo WU 伍國
  Context and Text: Historicizing Xuanzang and the Da Tang Xiyu Ji
   

Vol. 3, No. 2, Special Issue on Buddhism and Technology, and Epigraphy (October 2020)

• Justin Brody
  Enaction, Convolution and Conceptualism: An AI-Based Exploration of Dharmakīrti’s Perception and Conception
   
• Douglas Duckworth
  A Buddhist Contribution to Artificial Intelligence?
   
• Charles Goodman
  Machine Learning, Plant Learning, and the Destabilization of Buddhist Psychology
   
• Peter D. Hershock
  The Intelligence Revolution and the New Great Game: A Buddhist Reflection on the Personal and Societal Predicaments of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
   
• Joshua Stoll
  Buddha in the Chinese Room: Empty Persons, Other Mindstreams, and the Strong AI Debate
   
• Christian Wittern
  Zen, Motorcycles and Burning Buddhas
   
• Stephanie Balkwill
  A Virtuoso Nun in the North: Situating the Earliest-Known Dated Biography of a Buddhist Nun in East Asia
   
• T. H. Barrett
  Against Epigraphy: Once More a Visit to Zen and History
   
• Claudia Wenzel
  Imprinting the Living Rock with Buddhist Texts: On the Creation of a Regional Sacred Geography in Shandong in the Second Half of the Sixth Century

-- Book Reviews --

• Jin Yongzhen 金鏞鎮
  Wang Yong 王勇, Dongya wenhua huanliu shijiang 東亞文化環流十講 [Ten Lectures on East Asian Cultural Circulation]
   
• Ouyang Nan 歐陽楠
  Zhang, Dewei, Thriving in Crisis: Buddhism and Political Disruption in China, 1522–1620
   
• Stuart H. Young
  Welter, Albert, The Administration of Buddhism in China: A Study and Translation of Zanning and the Topical Compendium of the Buddhist Clergy (Da Song Seng shilüe 大宋僧史略)

Warm regards,
Carol Lee
Communications Officer