Call for Papers:
BDRC Occasional Papers in Buddhist Studies (BOPBS)
On behalf of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC), we are pleased to invite academic papers on all facets of Buddhist Studies for the inaugural publication of the BDRC Occasional Papers in Buddhist Studies (BOPBS) series. BOPBS is an online, open access, peer-reviewed academic publication series that will be one component of BDRC’s next-generation Linked Open Data platform known as the Buddhist Universal Digital Archive (BUDA). The BOPBS series provides the many scholars who cooperate with and contribute to BDRC and use the material we have targeted for preservation with a venue to publish the work resulting from their use of BDRC’s resources as well as other original research. The series is edited and reviewed by scholars on BDRC’s Board of Advisors and is professionally copy-edited ensuring digital academic publications of a high caliber that are of immediate use to all Buddhist Studies scholars and interested parties.
The series covers the following areas:
Papers on all aspects of Buddhist Studies in relation to primary textual sources in any of the known languages of Buddhist textual transmission will be considered for publication including but not limited to work on: Buddhist literature, narrative studies, philology, codicology, epigraphy, textual studies, textual collections, textual preservation, Digital Humanities, methodological issues found within Buddhist Studies as it relates to Buddhist literature, or either classical or digital approaches to the study of any of the aforementioned topics. Critical editions and/or translations of Buddhist texts are also encouraged.
Editorial Board
Stefan Baums
Marcus Bingenheimer
Jowita Kramer
Todd Lewis
Alexander von Rospatt
Vesna Wallace
Date of publication: BOPBS is currently inviting papers for Volume 1 scheduled to be published in Summer 2019.
Submission deadline: Drafts should be submitted by March 1, 2019. Authors are welcome to contact the editor before the submission deadline.
Submission guidelines: All submissions should be sent in both MS Word (or equivalent) and PDF format. Formatting should follow the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. While there is no page limit, submissions should generally fall within 5,000–10,000 words. Authors wishing to submit a substantially longer paper are encouraged to contact the editor. Contributions for subsequent volumes will be accepted on a rolling basis and will be considered as they arrive for the next available upcoming volume. Please include a brief biographical note (50–100 words) with your submission. Send your manuscript, proposals for potential works relevant to the series that are still in the planning stage, and questions to the editor, Charles DiSimone at disimone@tbrc.org.