---| --- ---| ---| | | --- | | | | | | | | | | -- |---| |--- |--- |---| | | | | | | | | | | | | ---- | | |--- |--- | | |___| GASSHO Electronic Journal of DharmaNet International and the Global Online Sangha GASSHO (ISSN: 1072-2971) is a bimonthly electronic journal seeking to promote communications and community amongst Buddhist scholars, lay teachers, laypractitioners, monks and nuns. GASSHO is a non-sectarian publication and does not represent any particular school of Buddhism. GASSHO publishes from time to time all of the following varieties of articles: - Historical, analytical or other scholarly articles relating to Buddhism, or issues concerning Buddhism - Dharma talks by acknowledged teachers from any Buddhist tradition - Interviews with Buddhist teachers and scholars - Translations of canonical Buddhist texts and/or commentary - News items or bulletins relevant to Buddhism and Buddhists - Discussions of issues relevant to Buddhist practice and ethics - News and discussions pertaining to DharmaNet International and the role of the electronic medium in Buddhism - Reviews of books, journals, videos, tapes, performances, art, retreats, dharma centers, softwares, or any other resource having some direct bearing on or benefit to Buddhists - Directory of online Buddhist resources - International calendar of events noteworthy to the global sangha - Survey articles reporting the state of the art in some area(s) of study. These may be done in the form of a literature review or annotated bibliography - Letters to the editor - Advertisements of immediate interest to our audience: grants available; positions available; study opportunities; etc. Submissions are now being solicited. =========================================================================== *GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS* Unsolicited manuscripts pertaining to any of the topics listed above, or of general interest to the readers or purposes of GASSHO, are welcome and may be submitted to the journal. GASSHO publishes material in the following four categories: 1. Research Papers (5,000 words and over) 2. Discussion Articles (2,000 words or less) 3. Bulletins (1,000 words or less). 4. Book Reviews SUBMISSION PROCEDURES The journal's procedures are designed to make the submission of material as simple as possible. Any questions regarding submissions may be sent directly to the General Editors. Submissions of all kinds may be sent either electronically or through the normal postal service on computer diskette (DOS-formatted 5.25" or 3.5" disks). To make a submission, follow these three steps: A. After preparing your article, save it in a popular word-processing format such as WordPerfect, using the extension of the software (*.wp6, *.ws, *.msw, etc.) Do not worry unduly about diacriticals at this stage. If your article is accepted, the editors will contact you with information about how these should be shown in the published text. B. Save a second copy of the article as an ASCII file, using the extension *.txt (for example, Myfile.txt). The option to save in ASCII format will normally be found under "Save As. . ." on your word- processor's "File" menu. C. Send both files to the journal. Submissions to the journal on diskette will not be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope or mailer. GASSHO cannot be held responsible for loss of or damage to unsolicited material. WHERE TO SEND Diskette submissions through postal mail should be addressed to: Barry Kapke, editor GASSHO P.O. Box 4951 Berkeley, CA 94704-4951 USA Electronic submissions should be directed in any of the following manners: Internet e-mail: dharma@netcom.com ftp: ftp.netcom.com:pub/dharma/Inbound upload to BBS: BODY DHARMA ONLINE, 1-510-836-4717 (data only) ACCOMPANYING INFORMATION Every submission should contain a header describing: 1. The category of the submission (e.g., Research Paper (Refereed), Discussion Article (Refereed), Discussion Article (Non-refereed), Bulletin, or Review. Manuscripts intended for refereed consideration should be notated as such. 2. The title of the submission and the name(s) of the author(s). 3. Details of institutional affiliation, mail and e-mail addresses, and contact telephone numbers. 4. For Research Papers and Discussion Articles, an abstract of no more than 150 words. A specimen submission can be seen in the journal's electronic pages using a WWW browser. AFTER SUBMISSION Depending on the opinion of the referees (for refereed articles) or the review staff (for non-refereed articles), articles will either be (1) approved for publication without alteration, (2) approved subject to modification, or (3) declined. Articles which are approved for publication are likely to need reformatting and other alterations to accommodate the requirements of the electronic medium. It will be the author's responsibility to make whatever adaptations are required. =========================================================================== *GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS* When submitting accepted manuscripts for electronic publication please follow the guidelines below: A. Submissions should be preceded by a header containing the title of the manuscript, the name(s) of the author(s), any affiliations, mail and e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers. The header should be formatted as in the following example: TITLE: Title of the Manuscript AUTHOR: Your First Name Your Last Name AFFILIATION: Your College or University, Your Department OR Your Organization, Your Title MAIL ADDRESS: Street Address, City, State,Zip or Postal Code, Country E-MAIL ADDRESS: Your E-Mail Address PHONE: Office/(nnn) nnn-nnnn; Home/(nnn) nnn-nnn. B. After this header, please include an abstract of no more than 150 words. This is intended primarily to help the editorial staff to sort and categorize incoming submissions. C. The abstract should be followed by the text of the manuscript according to the text format described below. D. Manuscripts should be submitted in the standard MLA (Modern Language Association) format with the following modifications to make allowance for the electronic medium of the journal. E. To avoid line-wrapping, column width should not exceed 72 characters. A column width of 70 characters per line is recommended. F. Paragraphs should be block-form, ragged right. Block quotes are indented 10 characters from each margin, and are also ragged right. Justified paragraphs (paragraphs with straight margins on both right and left) should be avoided as they hard to read with fixed-character-width fonts. G. Use the double quote character (") for quotations, and the single quote (') for sub-quotations. All sources must be attributed. H. Regardless of the word-processing program you used, the manuscript must be saved in the human readable 'ASCII' or 'Text' or 'DOS Text' format prior to uploading and sending it as an e-mail message. By "human readable" ASCII, we mean an ASCII file which is readable by a human (i.e., not PostScript) without the aid of a program for viewing the file (i.e., not TeX or LaTeX or SGML or HTML). Please do not include high-ascii characters, namely those with ASCII codes outside the range 32 to 126 inclusive, as these may not always display the same. I. Since attributes such as underlining and italics are not available in ASCII format please use the following conventions: *bold* //italics// superscript~ subscript% _underline_ J. The following conventions should be used for diacriticals: -- Sanskrit and Pali both require extensive use of diacritical marks. The following set of conventions, widely used on the Indological Forum (indology@liverpool.ac.uk) and by Buddha-L (buddha-l@ulkyvm.louisville.edu), will be adopted. 1) Long vowels are doubled 2) Consonantal diacritics precede the consonants marked by them, thus retroflex consonants are written as .r .t .th .d .dh .n .m .s 3) Visarga is written as .h 4) The palatals that take diacritics are ~n and "s 5) The guttural nasal is written "n 6) DA.N.DA is written | -- The Wylie system of Tibetan transliteration requires no diacritical marks. -- Chinese can be romanized by either the pinyin or Wade-Giles system, of course indicating which has been utilized. -- Japanese requires only doubled vowels for romanization, which can be treated as indicated above for Sanskrit. K. Page length loses its meaning in the electronic medium, so authors are asked to number sections and paragraphs within sections. Thus 2.13 would refer to section 2, paragraph 13 in the manuscript. This is intended primarily for editing purposes and communicating with authors; the final release edition will not retain this "outline" format. L. The footnoting/endnoting facility in word-processing programs is not automatically convertible into ASCII/Text/DOS Text. It is therefore necessary to do some "manual" conversion. The footnotes in the text of the manuscript should be set in angle brackets, e.g. <1>, and the actual citations should be placed as endnotes at the end of the manuscript. M. All sections of the text should be divided by blank lines. This includes section headings, paragraphs, entries in the bibliography and individual footnotes. N. Authors of accepted manuscripts assign to GASSHO/DharmaNet International the right to publish the text both electronically and as printed matter and to make it available permanently in an electronic archive. However authors retain copyright of their work and may republish it in any form they wish so long as GASSHO is clearly acknowledged as the original source of publication. O. The editorial policy of GASSHO is rooted in the Five Grave Precepts (Pancha-shila). Please consider whether a manuscript is in keeping with these guidelines before submitting. ======================================================================== [end of file]