BDK News
Notice: Book Orders for New Year’s holiday
BDK Japan office will be closed from Thursday, December 29th to Tuseday, January 4th.
Please note that we cannot reply to your inquiries and process orders during this period.
Our last shipment before New Year’s holiday will be 9am on Monday, December 27th. We will resume shipping after Wednesday, January 5th.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your kind understanding.
Notice: Book Orders for Summer Break
BDK Japan office will be closed from Saturday, August 7th to Sunday, August 15th.
Please note that we cannot reply to your inquiries and process orders during this period.
Our last shipment before summer break will be 9am on Thursday, August 5th. We will resume shipping after Tuesday, August 17th.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your kind understanding.
Notice of book orders during holidays
BDK online book store will be closed from April 29, 2021 to May 5, 2021. As of the publication shipping service before holidays, we accept the online order by 9:00 am, April 27, 2021. The shipping service will resume after May 7, 2021. During holidays, we cannot reply and respond to any message and order.
Thank you for your understanding.
Notice of New Year’s holiday
The BUKKYO DENO KYOKAI Tokyo office will be closed from Tuesday, December 29, 2020 to Tuesday, January 5, 2021 for the New Year’s holiday. As of the publication shipping service before the holidays, we accept the online-order by 9:00 a.m, Monday, December 28, 2020.
The shipping service will resume after Thursday, December 7, 2021.
Duruing holiday, we can’t reply and respond to any message or order.
Thank you for your understanding.
Announcement of availability of downloading the PDF data of “The Teaching of Buddha” (Indonesian version)
Indonesian version of “The Teaching of Buddha” is downloadable now. Download the PDF data from the below link.
Announcement of the 2020 Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism
The results of the 2020 Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism is announced. The winner is Roger R. Jackson (John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Emeritus, Carleton College), for his book “Mind Seeing Mind: Mahāmudrā and the Geluk Tradition” (Wisdom Publications, 2019). More details will be announced on BDK official website.
Announcement of 2021 BDK Fellowship for Foreign Scholars
Application of 2021 BDK Fellowship for Foreign Scholars is available now. For more information, please look at the below link:
Announcement of Award Winner of The 54th Bunka-Sho Award (Cultural Award for the Promotion of Buddhism)
<Bunka-Sho>
MAYEDA Sengaku (Professor emeritus at Tokyo University)
World authority on Indian philosophy. Taught at Tokyo University as a successor of NAKAMURA Hajime. Contributed to the development of researchers’ resources and the Nakamura Hajime Eastern Institute and the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies, for which he served as president.
<Shorei-Sho>
No eligible person.
A presentation ceremony of Bunka-Sho Award will be held at 11:00 on October 8, 2020AM at Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai.
Notice of summer business holiday
The BUKKYO DENO KYOKAI Tokyo office will be closed from Saturday, August 8, 2020 through Sunday, August 16, 2020 for the summer Obon holiday season. As of the publication shipping service before the holidays, we accept the order by Wednesday, August 5. Other shipping order will be after Tuesday, August 18, 2020.
If you need immediate shipping, please call us: ＋81 3 3455 5851
(9:00 AM-4:30 PM in Japan time)※This is unavailable during the holidays.
Thank you for your understanding.
Entry of “Learning the Basics of Japanese Buddhism” kicked off.
The lecture series on Japanese Buddhism and its culture will be held in Kyoto as we did it last year.
For more information, please look at the below link: