...Jack Meng-Tat Chia Theravada Traditions: Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka . By John Clifford Holt . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2017 . xi, 391 pp. ISBN: 9780824867805 (cloth). Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the Formation...

...Deborah Klimburg-Salter Buddhist Wall Painting of Ladakh . Text by Charles Genoud ; photographs by Takao Inoue . Translated by Tom Tillemans . Geneva : Edition Olizane , 1981 . 116 pp. and 280 Color Plates. Glossary, Notes, Bibliography. $67.95. A Buddhist Paradise: The Murals...

..., chapter 6 highlights submission and power within hierarchical relationships. Because for most people, the ultimate achievement of autonomy, Buddhist enlightenment or nirvana, is a long way away, Keeler portrays the strategies involved in maintaining one's security and safety, including the ambiguously...

...John S. Strong Buddhist Saints in India: A Study in Buddhist Values and Orientations . By Reginald A. Ray . New York : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xviii, 508 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 193...

...Richard B. Mather Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Their Plan and Its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life . By J. Prip-Moller . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 1967 . 396 pp. Table of Sketches, Table...

...A. Thomas Kirsch Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman: A Study of Urban Monastic Organization in Central Thailand . By Jane Bunnag . Cambridge : University Press , 1973 . xii, 219 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $16.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974...

...Bonnie Cheng Chinese Steles: Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form . Edited by Dorothy C. Wong . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2004 . xviii, 226 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 180 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T...

...Leon Hurvitz Buddhist Meditation . By Edward Conze . New York : Macmillan , 1956 , 183 . $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956 1956 BOOK REVIEWS 163 the fact that the Sunyavada can deal with the most conflicting theories, but chiefly on what Murti calls...

...Micah L. Auerback Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons . By James C. Dobbins . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2020 . xiv, 269 pp. ISBN: 9780824879990 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Across...

... as printed books replaced the hand-inscribed or printed palm leaf manuscripts. Isaacs was unable to document sazigyo production from the weavers themselves, but this work does enhance our understanding of women's roles in everyday Buddhist practice. Having lived in Burma and as an avid collector...

...Kim Gutschow Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant . By Nirmala Salgado . London : Oxford University Press. 336 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Nirmala Salgado's Buddhist Nuns...

.... Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater . Translated with an introduction by R. Keller Kimbrough . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . xii, 273 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $27.00 (paper). Publishing the Stage: Print and Performance in Early...

...Thomas Borchert Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia . By Julia Cassaniti . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 201. xiv, 297. ISBN: 9781501709173 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Mindfulness is everywhere...

...Rebecca S. Hall Contemporary Funeral Rituals of Sa'dan Toraja: From Aluk Todolo to “New” Religions . By Michaela Budiman . Prague : Karolinum Press , 2013 . 170 pp. ISBN: 9788024622286 (paper). Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China . Edited by Paul...

...David Chandler In her concluding chapter (pp. 174–88), Thompson revisits the arguments of her previous chapters. She also suggests in passing that psychoanalytic theory, used with care, might be helpful in discussions of engendering the Cambodian state. At that point, Engendering the Buddhist...

...Stacey Van Vleet Marshalling a wealth of research, Being Human in a Buddhist World examines scholarly debates following the twelfth-century systematization of Tibetan medicine within the classic Four Treatises ( Rgyud bzhi ), rendering this sometimes arcane body of literature accessible...

..., 2015). 3 Russell Marcus , Forms of Man: The Buddhist Vision of Thawan Duchanee ( Bangkok : Books Marcus , 1974 ) . Those interested in Thawan and his own beliefs about art and Buddhism will find plenty...

... in America and Europe. JOHN E. BRUSH Rutgers, The State University The Sherpas of Nepal: Buddhist Highlanders. By CHRISTOPH VON FURER-HAIMENDORF. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964. xix, 298. Maps, Plates. $6.50. Numbering only a few thousands and inhabiting the high, narrow valleys...