THE JOURNAL OF ORIENTAL STUDIES（Vol. 32）

■Feature: Overcoming the Crisis of Humanity

Navigating Hard Times: Civilian Strategic Action Amidst Political Violence…Shane J. Barter / Tetsushi Ogata

Epidemics, Matter, Significance, and Responsibility…Ian Read  

Global Wisdom: The Antidote to Magical Thinking…Maria Guajardo

Education for Refugees from Conflict Zones and their Integration into German Society…Barbara Drinck　

■Religion and Civilization in 'Response' to the 'Challenge' of a Global Crisis
   From the Symposium in Conjunction with the 36th Annual Academic Conference of the IOP

The Historical Context of Choose Life…Junichi Kasuga

On the Nature of Crisis in Our Time: Transmission from the Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue…Yutaka Ishigami

Esho Funi as a Philosophy of Coexistence: An Analysis of 'Dialogue for the 21st Century' from the Perspective of Comparative Civilizational Studies…Shunji Hosaka

Toward the 'Second Axial Age'—The Spiritual Revolution of Humanity and Self-transformation…Hiroshi Ichikawa

■Contributions: Buddhist Studies

Dhāraṇī of Pure Radiance (VIŚUDDHA-PRABHĀ)…Lokesh Chandra

The Wugou jingguang da tuoluoni jing (Sutra of the Great Dhāraṇī of Pure Light) and Its Role in the Religious Policy of Chinese and Japanese Empresses (Wu Zetian and Koken [Shotoku-tenno]) in the Seventh–Eighth Century…Elena Lepekhova

The Tilting Stream of Dharma Metaphor in Mahāyāna Buddhist Exegesis…James B. Apple

Akṣobhya: The Buddha of Steadfastness in Sanskrit Texts and Tibetan and Chinese Art…Shashibala