Contemporary Buddhism publishes articles on the current state of Buddhism from across the human sciences. The journal presents work from philosophers, theologians, historians, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists. Contemporary Buddhism examines the historical, doctrinal and political developments that have formed contemporary versions of Buddhism. The special features of Contemporary Buddhism are:

• the meeting of Buddhism and western culture
• the current self-understanding of different traditions of Buddhism
• the relations between these traditions
• the relations to other world religious traditions

Contemporary Buddhism is intended to reflect and represent all schools of Buddhism. Submissions of papers related to the aims and scope of the journal are welcomed.

A Practical and Intellectual Agenda

For a statement of the ideas that inspired the creation of Contemporary Buddhism download the inaugural editorial by Michael McGhee:

The time has long since gone when the study of Buddhism in the West was the preserve of a few scholars, or its influence confined to a handful of European intellectuals. The time is long since too when Buddhist practice in the West was a polite genuflection, 'meditation'merely the occasional ancillary to a self defining intellectual conviction. Popular perception has altered too, and we are familiar now with Buddhist chic, with the movie stars photographed with smiling Lamas. But the current reality has become very interesting... more

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