The first issue of the Journal of the Pali Text Society was published in 1882, the year after the founding of the Society. Between 1882 and 1927 there were twenty-three issues in eight volumes. In 1981, commemorating the centenary of the founding of the Society, those eight volumes were reprinted in a facsimile edition as well as a new volume with a collection of fifteen new articles. In 1985 volume 10 was published. In his foreword K. R. Norman expressed the PTS Council’s ‘hope to continue publication if support and interest are sufficient’. Since then a further twenty-four volumes have appeared, issued somewhat irregularly between 1987 and 2021. With the publication of volume 35 in 2024 in a new format, the PTS Council expressed its aspiration to relaunch the Journal with a view to publishing a volume annually.

The relaunched Journal of the Pali Text Society is open access. All current and past articles are now available on the Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing website at the following link https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/jpts/index.