...Dan Arnold Four Illusions: Candrakīrti's Advice to Travelers on the Bodhisattva Path . Translated by Karen C. Lang . New York : Oxford University Press , 2003 . xv, 240 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S...

...Minoru Kiyota The Threefold Lotus Sūtra: Innumerable Meanings, the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, and Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue . Translated by Bunnō Katō , Yoshirō Tamura , and Kōjirō Miyasaka ; with revisions by W. E. Soothill, Wilhelm Schiffer, and Pier P. Del...

...Aloysius M. Soden Kanzeon Bosatsu no Kenkyū [A Study of Kanzeon Bodhisattva] . By Gōtō Daiyō . Tokyo : Sangibō Butsurin , 1958 . 343 . Illustrations, References. ¥700. Kannon Kyō wo Kataru [Speaking about the Kannon Sutra] . By Okamoto Kanoko . Tokyo : Daihō Rinkaku , 1963...

...Victor H. Mair Bodhisattva of Compassion: The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin . By John Blofeld . Boulder : Shambhala , 1978 . 158 pp. Illustrations, Appendix, Glossary. $3.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 161 Bodhisattva...

...Jinhua Chen The Making of a Savior Bodhisattva: Dizang in Medieval China . By Zhiru Ng . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2007 . xiii , 305 pp. $52.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 In the Chinese Buddhist world, Dizang...

...Bodhisattva Kar The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity, and the Poverty of Representation . By John Hutnyk . London and New Jersey : ZED Books , 1996 . 246 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 752 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Bodhisattva Kar Dissenting Knowledges, Open Futures: The Multiple Selves and Strange Destination of Ashis Nandy . Edited by Vinay Lal . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2000 . 352 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS...

... was originally attached to Mount Atago. During successive centuries this cult served as a base for other cults: of fire, the tengu , the Bodhisattva Jizō, and Shōgun Jizō. It also served as the base for a large popular cult with branches all over the country, which still exists. The complex structure...

... transformations: the bodhisattva Guanyin's gender fluidity; women identifying with Guanyin through dance, painting, hair embroidery, and hairpins; and educated men turning women's bodily practices into writing. Becoming Guanyin takes up the methodological question of how to access women's embodied material...

... principles among the Christians. Its popular name, "The great mother of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas," accentuates its material role in reproduction and propagation of the Buddhist faith similar to that of the Church maintenance of "the life in Christ." The formal function of "The Sutra" is quite different...

... to gain merit, and auto-cremation to influence officials and rulers. In light of the Vinaya prohibitions against killing, including killing oneself, Huijiao's critical evaluation justifies these practices on the basis of their selfless generosity, one of the perfections of the bodhisattva. Chapter 2...

... shows the reader, for instance, that haircurls of a bodhisattva at the Huayansi Sutra Library are pulled up through a loop, a feature she will also observe in a bodhisattva at Dulesi in Ji county, Hebei, in a bodhisattva inside the east hall of Foguang Monastery at the foot of Mount Wutai in Shanxi...

..., Buddhism here is represented by the bodhisattva Guanyin, whose gender identity, while always fluid, had become largely feminized by the late imperial period. This allowed women to physically identify with the bodhisattva and, by means of their own artistic and aesthetic skills, to establish relationships...

... of karma—how one deciphers it, repents for it, evokes the powers of buddhas and bodhisattvas to erase it, and attempts to alter it through ritual practice. Is karma a natural law with exact correspondence between action and consequence, or is it possible to intervene in the karmic process and affect its...

... personhood. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 bodhisattva filial piety heart/mind moral personhood popular Buddhism Quan Âm Vietnam witnessing Every ten days on the occasion of Kỵ Mậu (commemoration on the day of the fifth Heavenly Stem), a group of women...

... of "The Sutra." When the final trance of the Bodhisattva and his crowning enlightenment are described, the attenuating oscillations of consciousness amongst ten stages of trance carry a close resemblance to the clinical picture of agony and physiological death. Certainty in features is guaranteed by immediate...

... of humanity, specifically the efforts of religious devotees, to understand the puzzling world in which they find themselves. Morgan's message could have been enhanced with illustrations and maps. Illustrations or photographs depicting the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara from Angkor in Kampuchea and Kathmandhu...

... of female Bodhisattvas. Some texts mandated a change of sex, "a transition from the imperfection and immorality of human beings (the female body), to the mental perfection of Bodhisattvas and Buddhas (the male body)" (p. 175). Other texts, in which Bodhisattvas and Buddhas are asexual beings, reject the use...

... with an introduction and notes. These passages are arranged by themes such as "paths for women leading to salvation" and "Bodhisattvas without sexual transformation," with a gradual transition from negative to more positive views of the place of women. The fundamental theme of the book is the tension between Mahayana...

... mythographers resorted to outcasts {hinin) as filters between the deity and the people, scapegoats of exclusion without whom monks could not engage in their discussion with the sacred. The paradigm of the shamaness/courtesan/ bodhisattva became a common topic in one strain of anecdotal literature...