Wheel of Dharma

The Wheel of Dharma is the print pub­li­ca­tion of the BCA. This monthly pub­li­ca­tion fea­tures sto­ries about Jodo Shin­shu Bud­dhism, occa­sional arti­cles on gen­eral Bud­dhism, and church/temple news. This pub­li­ca­tion also includes a Japan­ese sec­tion called the “Horin.” Eng­lish Edi­tor: Rev. Ronald Kobata Japan­ese Edi­tor: Rev. Kodo Umezu Pro­duc­tion Edi­tor: Jef­frey Kimoto

• Submission Guidelines and Due Dates

  We rec­om­mend a length of approx­i­mately 800–1,000 words, typed, single-spaced. Longer sub­mis­sions will be rejected or, if accepted, split into mul­ti­ple parts. We pre­fer Microsoft Word doc­u­ments in an 11-point Times New Roman font, as it trans­lates best for our graphic design depart­ment. If you do not have Word, a sim­ple text file will work, even pasted into the body of an e-mail message. In ALL cases, do not embed images in Word doc­u­ment. Send as sep­a­rate attachment. Please do not send text as PDF files. Color prints or dig­i­tal prints are accept­able. Color pho­to­copies, inkjets, or third-party photo shar­ing web­sites are not rec­om­mended. Photo attach­ments should be sent at 300 dpi JPEG, TIFF or PDF for­mat for best resolution. Cell phone images are not rec­om­mended. Web-based images (72 dpi) do not pro­duce qual­ity images for newsprint usage. We reserve the right to crop pho­tos and illus­tra­tions to con­form with space and design requirements. Sub­mis­sion of arti­cles can be sent to Rev. Ronald Kobata.

  Sub­mis­sion dead­line: 20th of each month. Sub­mis­sions may or may not be pub­lished in the Wheel of Dharma as it is at the dis­cre­tion of the editor.

• Wheel of Dharma Policies

  HARDCOPY PUBLICATION LICENSE:

  Authors who sub­mit arti­cles for pub­li­ca­tion in the Wheel of Dharma (“WOD”) thereby grant WOD a royalty-free non-exclusive paid up license, world­wide, in per­pe­tu­ity and in all media (the “License”) to use, edit and repub­lish the article(s) and to grant sub-licenses to any 3rd party to do so on the same terms. WOD grants 3rd par­ties an iden­ti­cal License to repub­lish its arti­cles so long as the article(s) is repub­lished in its entirety, with­out edit, pro­vid­ing credit to the WOD and the Bud­dhist Churches of America.

  ONLINE PUBLICATION LICENSE:

  Authors who sub­mit arti­cles for pub­li­ca­tion in the Wheel of Dharma online (“WOD”) thereby grant WOD a royalty-free non-exclusive paid up license, world­wide, in per­pe­tu­ity and in all media (the “License”) to use, edit and repub­lish the article(s) and to grant sub-licenses to any 3rd party to do so on the same terms. WOD grants 3rd par­ties an iden­ti­cal License to repub­lish only the first three para­graphs of any arti­cle, with­out edit, pro­vid­ing credit to the WOD and the Bud­dhist Churches of Amer­ica includ­ing a hyper­link to the arti­cle in the WOD.