Editing About the Radical Buddhism Project

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== Mission, Aims, and Scope ==
The ''Radical Buddhism Project (RBP)'' is an independent digital humanities initiative functioning as a dual-purpose scholarly resource: a comprehensive text archive and a contextual encyclopedia. The project is dedicated to recovering, preserving, and analyzing the historical intersections of Buddhist doctrine with radical socio-political thought. 

For the purposes of this archive and encyclopedia, "radical Buddhism" refers specifically to the conceptual and practical convergence of Buddhism with left-wing political philosophies, such as Marxism, socialism, and anarchism, as well as Buddhist involvement in anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, environmental activism, and radical social justice movements such as Dalit emancipation.

The primary curatorial priority of the RBP is the religious and political landscape of early- to mid-20th century Asia. While the archive remains open to historical and geographic exceptions, including contemporary developments, its core resources are systematically channeled into preserving and translating the writings of monastics and lay thinkers and activists operating within this specific twentieth-century window.

Beyond acting as a repository for raw text, the RBP provides encyclopedic and contextual data focusing on country profiles and biographical profiles of individual radical Buddhists, including curated bibliographies of key secondary literature.

== The Editorial and Peer-Review Model ==
To ensure citation reliability for global researchers, librarians, and educators, the RBP does not utilize an anonymous, crowd-sourced editing structure. The wiki is a controlled-access environment restricted to verified contributors.

The Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor share joint administrative responsibility for managing a rigorous, collaborative review workflow. The editors actively source external area-studies experts, specialized philologists, and fluent native speakers to audit transcribed source texts, verify linguistic nuances in English translations, and cross-reference encyclopedic profiles.

To maintain complete academic honesty, all materials on the platform feature a transparent editorial status marker. Any newly published translation, raw source text, or biographical page that has not yet undergone formal peer verification by external area experts or linguistic auditors will be explicitly marked with an "unreviewed" or similar banner. Once the auditing process is complete, the page is upgraded to an unmarked, certified status.

{{See Also|Peer Review and Authorship}}

== Governance and Institutional Independence ==
The RBP is an editorially independent, autonomous project. While hosted and developed independently to ensure long-term archive stability, it maintains strong collaborative ties with academic researchers globally.

=== The Core Team ===
The day-to-day survival and baseline maintenance of the project relies entirely on a small, three-person core team, with the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor sharing joint responsibility for the project's mission and direction as co-founders:
* ''Editor-in-Chief:'' '''[[User:James|James Mark Shields]]'''. Focuses primarily on external representation and the academic peer-review network, with a lighter day-to-day editorial load by design.
* ''Managing Editor:'' '''[[User:Lajos|Lajos Brons]]'''. Primarily handles day-to-day editorial work — content generation, archival collection, and gatekeeping — and co-manages the external peer-review network.
* ''Technical Administrator:'' '''[[User:Adrian|Adrian Amora]]'''. Manages the digital infrastructure, executes server and database maintenance, and oversees software-level customizations across the MediaWiki and phpBB platforms.

=== Advisory Board ===
''The Radical Buddhism Project is currently forming its international advisory board.''

== Open Access Policy ==
The RBP operates under a strict adherence to the ''Platinum/Diamond Open Access'' standard. Scholarship must be universally accessible. The entire encyclopedia and text archive are completely free to read, with no paywalls, login barriers, or commercial advertisements.

All content on this site — encyclopedia articles, country and biographical profiles, formatting, and archived source texts and translations — is made available for free reading, citation, and quotation under normal academic quotation standards. It may not, however, be copied, mirrored, or republished elsewhere without permission. See ''[[Copyright Policy]]'' for the site's full terms of use, and ''[[Copyrights of Republished and Translated Texts]]'' for how the RBP assesses the copyright status of hosted historical material, including texts whose rights holders could not be identified.

== Support and Project Sustainability ==
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