Practical Shin Buddhist Missionary Studies:

Analysis of Scholarly Communication Activities in Buddhism and Buddhist Studies

There is little knowledge regarding the exchange of academic information on religious contexts. The objective of this informational study was to perform an overall analysis of all Buddhism-related communications collected in the Web of Science (WoS) from 1993 to 2011. The studied informational parameters include the growth in number of the scholarly communications, as well as the language-, doc...

Towards a digital research environment for Buddhist studies

This article will explain the structure and function of a digital research environment for Buddhist studies entitled Research Base for Indian and Buddhist Studies (RBIB). In the field of Buddhist studies (and especially in the area of Indian Buddhism), scholars face various obstacles in their efforts to share materials—in both paper and digital media. In establishing the RBIB, we have considere...

PACIFIC WORLD Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies

Missionary Evangelism to Corrections

1. Read Matthew 4:1-11 and discuss the following questions 2. Why do you think Satan was tempting Jesus, what was his purpose 3. Why did The Spirit of God lead Jesus into the desert to be tempted, why did God allow it? 4. How did Jesus resist the devils temptations — what did he do? 5. What did the devil do when he realized he would not be successful? 6. Based on the versus below what is the so...

Peter Parker: Missionary and Diplomat *

In the centenary celebration for Peter Parker the date chosen is that of the opening of his hospital in Canton. This is as it should be. It was as a physician that Doctor Parker made his best known and most distinctive contribution. It is appropriate that his memory should be kept green in connection with the work of physical healing and with the rise of the modern medical profession in China. ...