Jiang Wu is professor of Chinese religion and thought in the Department of East Asian Studies and director of the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona.
Greg Wilkinson is assistant professor of religious education at Brigham Young University.

Introduction:
Jiang Wu and Greg Wilkinson
"The Reinvention of the Buddhist Tripitaka and the Rise of "Textual Modernity" in Modern East Asia"
Part 1 The Buddhist Canon Encounters the West
1.Jiang Wu
"Finding the First Chinese Tripitaka in the West: Early European Buddhology, the 1872 Iwakura Mission in Britain, and the Mystery of the ¿baku Canon in the India Office Library"
2.Greg Wilkinson and Nicholas J. Frederick
"Inventing Buddhist Bibles in Japan: From Nanj¿ Bun'y¿ to Numata Yehan"
Part 2 Use and Utility of Modern Editions and Printings
3.Kida Tomoo
"¿tani Kozui's Tripitaka Diplomacy in China and the Qing Dragon Canon at Ry¿koku University"
4.Gregory Adam Scott
"The 1913 Pinjia Canon and the Changing Role of the Buddhist Canon in Modern China"
5.Richard D. McBride II
"Bearing the Canon on the Crown of the Head: Jeongdae Bulsa and Worship of the Buddhist Canon in Contemporary Korean Buddhism"
Part 3 The Buddhist Canon in the Digital Age
6.Christian Wittern
"The Digital Tripitaka and the Modern World"
7.A. Charles Muller, Shimoda Masahiro, and Nagasaki Kiyonori
"The SAT Taish¿ Text Database: A Brief History"
Appendix:
Fang Guangchang
"Defining the Chinese Buddhist Canon: Its Origin, Periodization, and Future"

This volume examines the significance of the Chinese Buddhist canon in modern East Asian Buddhism. Exploring how the Chinese Buddhist canon has evolved and how it is currently utilized, each chapter of this book provides new insights and essential information into the Chinese Buddhist canon during the modern and contemporary periods.