On January 11, 2022, Professor Max Moerman presented a talk on the specialized subject of maps in Japanese Buddhism. From at least the 14th through the late 19th century, Japanese monks have created and used maps to construct, represent, and find their place in a Buddhist world. Such maps provide a spatial history of religious thought, inform intellectual orientation and cultural identity, and reveal the centrality of India in the Japanese Buddhist imagination. The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination (University of Hawaii, December 2021) by Dr. Moerman is the first book to introduce and analyze this unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist maps of the world. In analyzing the history of these maps, and of their production, reproduction, and reception, this study argues for an alternative history of Japanese Buddhism through sources of visual and material culture.