Authors & Contributors

Richard Payne is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. He specializes in the study of Japanese tantric Buddhist ritual, specifically the homa, as well as the economics and modern secularization of Buddhism. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies (2024), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2024), Buddhism Under Capitalism (2022), and Homa Variations (2015), and author of Secularizing Buddhism (2021).

JOURNAL OF CONTEMPLATIVE STUDIES

• Practicing the “Threefold Mystery”: Rethinking a Shingon Ritual from Dichotomy to Dialectic by Richard K. Payne