Beginning in the 2023-2024 academic year, the HCBS pledged to provide ongoing financial support for the operational and publication expenses of the Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies. This support aligns with our mission to foster academic growth and promote excellence in research within the many academic disciplines that contribute to Buddhist studies scholarship. We recognize the invaluable
contribution that CJBS makes to the academic community by disseminating high-quality
research and facilitating intellectual exchange through an open-access model.
The Journal is open to submissions from scholars working in, but not limited to, anthropology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, history and religious studies. Articles may focus on any region or historical period. Scholars do not have to be affiliated with a Canadian university to submit. It welcomes articles on classical textual and intertextual analysis, including work on hagiography, Buddhist art, ritual, doctrinal questions and lineage formation, and work on contemporary Buddhist communities concerning, for example, the implications of fluid demographic transformations, cultural hybridity, and challenges associated with communal continuity of praxis and doctrine in a context of global mobilities.
