WHEEL OF DHARMA
Official Monthly Publication of BCA
Our monthly publication is mailed to all BCA members and features stories about Shin Buddhism, news and events from throughout the BCA community, and a Japanese language section. PDF files of the latest print edition and archives are available below. Individual articles are featured in digital-friendly format on the BCA Connect blog.
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
First-person articles should be around 500 words, typed, double-spaced in Microsoft Word. The editors may ask for longer articles, or split in multiple parts at the editors’ discretion. All other articles should be in news release form at maximum of 500 words.
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Documents should be sent as an email attachment to WODeditor@bcahq.org. Images, preferably in color, must be submitted as 300 dpi JPEG or TIFF in separate attachments and never embedded in a Word document. PDF is not preferred. The editors reserve the right to crop images and to edit articles. Articles and news releases are reviewed for publication on the 10th of every month.
Submission deadline: 10th of each month. Submissions may or may not be published in the Wheel of Dharma as it is at the discretion of the editor.
LICENSING 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.
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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.