Question 1

Volume 7 (2020)

Accepted Answer

Self/Not-Self Introduction  Articles Sīlavadin – 'A Range of (No-)Self Views'  Dhīvan Thomas Jones – 'Three Ways of Denying the Self'  Matt Drage – 'Truth and Transformation: Foucault, Urgyen Sangharakshita, and Buddhism as Technology of the Self'  Mitrānanda – 'The Direct Jhānic Path to Liberating Insight'  Reviews 'Jew + Buddhist = JewBu': Emily Sigalow, American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change – reviewed by Agi Erdos  'More Than An Introduction': Bhikkhu Anālayo, Introducing Mindfulness: Buddhist Background and Practical Exercises – reviewed by Dharmacārī Ālokadhāra  'Being-Fully-Here Hiking': Christopher Ives, Zen on the Trail: Hiking as Pilgrimage – reviewed by Vidyādevī

Question 2

Volume 6 (2013)

Accepted Answer

Articles The Spiral Path or Lokuttara Paṭicca-samuppāda – Jayarava Attwood Through a Blue Chasm: Coleridge, Wordsworth and the Buddha on Imagination – Dhīvan Thomas Jones All Beings are Equal but Some are More Equal than Others: Buddhism and Vegetarianism in the U.S. – Joe Gaziano and Jacquie Lewis The Shorter Discourse on Emptiness (Cūḷasuññata- sutta, Majjhima-nikāya 121): translation and commentary – Dharmacārī Satyadhāna (Kevin Schanilec) Reviews (in the process of being archived)

Question 3

Volume 5 (2010)

Accepted Answer

Editorial – Dharmacārī Jñānaketu Articles Poisoned Pen Letters? D.T. Suzuki's Communication of Zen to the West – Dharmacārī Nāgapriya  Roman Buddha – William Ferraiolo  Buddhism and Rights: the Example of the Karuna Trust – Dharmacārī Ādarśa  The Hundred Syllable Vajrasattva Mantra – Dharmacārī Jayarava  Stages of the Path: Stream-entry and Beyond – Dharmacārī Bodhiketu  The Strange Case of Beni Barua and the Therī Dhammadinnā – Dharmacārin Sāgaramati  Notes A Note on Robert Bluck and the FWBO – Urgyen Sangharakshita  Book Reviews Mark Williams et al, The Mindful Way Through Depression – reviewed by Dr Paramabandhu Groves  David Loy, Money, Sex, War, Karma – reviewed by Dharmacārī Nāgapriya  Ralph Flores, Buddhist Scriptures as Literature  – reviewed by Will Buckingham  Aung San Suu Kyi & Alan Clements, The Voice of Hope – reviewed by Dharmacāriṇī Munīṣā  Selections from the Pāli Canon – reviewed by Dhīvan Thomas Jones  Donald Lopez, Buddhism and Science – reviewed by Dharmacārī Ratnaprabha  Alexander Wynne, The Origin of Buddhist Meditation – reviewed by Dharmacārī Viśvapāṇi  Richard Gombrich, What the Buddha Thought – reviewed by Dhīvan Thomas Jones

Question 4

Volume 4 (2004)

Accepted Answer

Articles A Mirror for Women? Reflections on the Feminine in Japanese Buddhism – Jñāṇavīra Letters of Gold: Imagery in the Dhammapada – Abhaya Postmodern Ethics: A Buddhist Response – Panos Skiotis Suicide as a Response to Suffering – Michael Attwood The Early Buddhist Saint: A Psychological Portrait – Nāgapriya Kamma in Context: The Mahākammavibhaṅgasutta and the Culakammavibhaṅgasutta – Manishini Alice Collett Was the Buddha Omniscient? – Nāgapriya Translation Giving Rise to the Bodhicitta: Translation from The Treatise on Discourses about Giving Rise to the Bodhicitta: The Bodhicittotpādasūtraśāstra of Vasubandhu – Andrew Skilton and Kate Crosby Book Reviews Buddhism and Science –Ratnaprabha Essential Reading: Modern Buddhism in the West –Vishvapani

Question 5

Volume 3 (2001)

Accepted Answer

How Buddhist Was Plato? – Robert Ellis Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars – Dharmacārī Nāgapriya The Doctrine of Non-Duality in the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa – Dharmacārī Ratnaguṇa Knowledge and Truth in Early Buddhism: An Examination of the Kālāma Sutta and Related Pali Canonical Texts –Dharmacārī Nāgapriya Homosexuality in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition – Mark McClelland (Dharmacārī Jñāṇavīra) Minding Pinocchio: A Critical Analysis of Materialist Explanations of Consciousness – Dharmacārī Advayacitta Dancing At the Still Point: The Dharma and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets – Dharmacārī Vāraghoṣa Is Madhyamaka Buddhism Really the Middle Way? Emptiness and the Problem of Nihilism – David Burton (Dharmacārī Asaṅga) Perceptions of the FWBO in British Buddhism – Dharmacārī Viśvapāṇi Regarding Matthew Arnold – Michael McGhee (Dharmacārī Vipassi)

Question 6

Volume 2 (1997)

Accepted Answer

Buddhism Without Beliefs? – Urgyen Sangharakshita Leaving Home: E.M. Forster and the Pursuit of Higher Values – Dharmachari Abhaya Mañjuśrī: Origins, Role and Significance Parts 1 & 2 – Anthony Tribe (Dharmacārī Ānandajyoti) Tārā: Her Origins and Development – Dharmacārī Pūrṇa Three Cheers for Taṇhā – Robert Morrison (Dharmacārin Sāgaramati) The Buddhist Conception of an Ecological Self – Alan Sponberg (Dharmacārī Sāramati) Freedom, Emotion and the Mind – Michael McGhee (Dharmacārī Vipassi) Harold Bloom: The Embattled Canon and the Experiential Critic – Dharmacārī Viśvapāṇi

Question 7

Volume 1 (1994)

Accepted Answer

Front Matter and Editorial – Dharmacāri Kamalaśīla Buddhism and the New Age – Dharmacārī Viśvapāni Mañjuśrī: Origins, Role and Significance, Part 3 –   Anthony Tribe (Dharmacārī Ānandajyoti) God is Dead: What Next? A Buddhist Response to Nietzsche – Robert Morrison (Dharmacārin Sāgaramati) Conditionality and the Two Truths – Dharmacārī Kulananda Going Forth and Citizenship – Dharmacārī Subhūti Green Buddhism and the Hierarchy of Compassion –       Alan Sponberg (Dharmacārī Sāramati)

Question 8

The Order Journal

Accepted Answer

The Order Journal was a precursor to the Western Buddhist Review as a scholarly journal for the Western Buddhist Order (as the Triratna Buddhist Order was known until 2010). Three issues were published, all edited by Dharmacārī Sthiramati (Andrew Skilton).   The Order Journal 3 (1990) The Order Journal 2 (1989) The Order Journal 1 (1988)

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