...Michel Mohr Buddhism and Violence: Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia . Edited by Vladimir Tikhonov and Torkel Brekke . New York : Routledge , 2012 . viii, 264 pp. $125.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Scholars and the general...

...Timothy Brook Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism under Colonialism . Edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1995 . 298 pp. $16.95 (paper). Buddhism in Practice . Edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr . Princeton Readings in Religion. Princeton...

...Beatrice Diamond Miller Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism . By Rita M. Gross . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1993 . xi, 365 pp. $44.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Kenneth Ch'en Buddhism . Edited by Richard A. Gard . Great Religions of Modern Man. New York : George Braziller , 1961 . 256 . Index. $4.00 Encyclopedia of Buddhism . Edited by G. P. Malalasekera . Fascicule: A-Aca. Ceylon : Government Press , 1961 . xv, 125 . Copyright ©...

...Kevin Trainor Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism: The Transmission of Sri Lankan Buddhism in Toronto . By D. Mitra Barua . Montreal : McGill-Queens University Press , 2019 . 280 pp. ISBN: 9780773556577 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020...

...Christopher Bell Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet . By Geoffrey Barstow . New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 . xv, 289 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Geoffrey Barstow's monograph Food...

...Ben Hillman The Buddha Party: How the People's Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism . By John Powers . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . xiv, 370 pp. ISBN: 9780199358151 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... the writing of this essay. 9 I have made a preliminary attempt to connect Buddhism and Marxism through focusing on nothingness and consciousness in my book on the Chinese revolutionary Zhang Taiyan. See Viren Murthy , The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance...

...Benjamin Baumann Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema . By Arnika Fuhrmann . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2016 . 272 pp. ISBN: 9780822361190 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

...Uma Chakravarti Women in Early Indian Buddhism: Comparative Textual Studies . Edited by Alice Collett . New York : Oxford University Press , 2014 . xii, 274 pp. $74.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 At the high point of the Indological...

...Dan Smyer Yü 2 See, for example, Charlene E. Makley , The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 2007 ) ; Mathew T. Kapstein , Buddhism between Tibet and China ( New York : Wisdom...

...Michael R. Chladek Abstract The study of Theravada Buddhism and gender has often focused on the relationship between men's and women's roles, particularly their differing ability to become fully ordained monks. Yet in Thailand, as in many parts of the world, gender is more complicated than...

...Tzu-Lung Chiu 1 Jan Nattier , “ Buddhism Comes to Main Street ,” Wilson Quarterly 21 , no. 2 ( 1997 ): 78 . That said, Monks in Motion is a must-read for historians and for scholars in Buddhist studies, Chinese diaspora studies, and transnational studies to delve...

...Pia Brancaccio Sarnath: A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began . By Frederick M. Asher . Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute , 2020 . xi, 192 pp. ISBN: 9781606066164 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 The site of Sarnath...

...Max Oidtmann Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa . By Brenton Sullivan . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . 304 pp. ISBN: 9780812252675 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022...

...Jack Meng-Tat Chia 1 Anne M.   Blackburn , Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2010 ) ; Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox, and Brian Bocking, “A Buddhist Crossroads: Pioneer European Buddhists and Globalizing Asian...

...Pattaratorn Chirapravati Buddhism Illuminated: Manuscript Art from Southeast Asia . By San San May and Jana Igunma . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2018 . 272 pp. ISBN: 9780295743783 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Any art...

...Whalen W. Lai A Short History of Buddhism . By Edward Conze . London : George Allen & Unwin , 1980 . 135 pp. Bibliography. $8.95(cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 331 tion not only of how to accelerate growth, but also...

...Clarence H. Hamilton Buddhism: Its Essence and Development . By Edward Conze with a preface by Arthur Waley. New York : Philosophical Library , 1951 . 212 p. with table of Chronology of Buddhist History. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 BOOK...

...D. C. Holtom Buddhism and Zen ., compiled, edited, and translated by Nyogen Senzaki and Ruth Strout McCandless . New York : Philosophical Library , 1953 , 91 . $3.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 BOOK REVIEWS 213 formation is given as to which...