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...Christian Sorace The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China . By Bin Xu . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2017 . xiii, 256 pp. ISBN: 9781503602106 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

... of the West as well! University of Chicago DONALD F. LACH Buddhism, A Religion of Infinite Compassion: Selections from Buddhist Literature. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by CLARENCE H. HAMILTON. New York: The Liberal Arts Press, 1952. xxviii, 189 p. $1.75. This short yet comprehensive work...

...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...

...Victoria Urubshurow The Path of Compassion: Writings on Socially Engaged Buddhism . Edited by Fred Eppsteiner . Rev. 2d ed . Berkeley : Parallax Press , 1988 . xx, 219 pp. $14.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 802 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Charles B. Jones Charisma and Compassion: Cheng Yen and the Tzu Chi Movement . By C. Julia Huang . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2009 . xii , 341 pp. $39.90 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 I have waited ten years...

... integrated the universal salvation of Buddhism with a distinctly national tradition. VOL. XLI, N O . 2 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES FEBRUARY 1982 The Boundaries of Compassion: Buddhism and National Tradition in Japanese Pilgrimage JAMES H. FOARD I t has often been said that a modern Japanese participates...

... component, does not incline us to act compassionately, as Kantian philosophers would claim. As partiality is built into compassion, Bein also develops a number of arguments defending partialism (against impartialism). While not all of them are equally successful, one seems to me especially important...

...C. Langdon White Compass of the world: a symposium on political geography . Edited By Hans W. Weigert and Vilhjalmur Stefansson . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1944 , xvi, 466 pp. $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1945 1945 280 THE FAR EASTERN...

... was limited and poorly delivered. The episode showed the lack of responsiveness of Indian democracy to the needs of working people and the failures of development. Yet Modi's particular brand of authoritarian populism worked so well that a government displaying very little compassion retained strong popular...

... and demons within the compass of human kinship, within the home, even the bedroom. These observations lead to a discussion of general relations between folklore and classical traditions in India. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 List of References Babcock Barbara...

...Chien-Yu Julia Huang; Robert P. Weller Abstract Thirty years ago the buddhist compassion Relief Foundation (Ciji Gongdehui, hereafter Ciji) was virtually unknown. Lost in the backwater of Taiwan's eastern coast, the group began in 1966 with a nun, five disciples, and thirty housewives who...

..., the rising and setting sun, and the compass points of east and west do not line up precisely, in the minds of the Bugis of Balobaloang they all do help find the directions olau' and orai" (p. 96). There are other, similar examples of how the "application" of abstract knowledge exhibits interesting...

... to their probable beginnings and searching for clues in disciples' hagiographies. Shinran is known for his teaching that salvation results only from faith in Amida Buddha and that anyone, even a wicked person, is eligible for Amida's compassion. The author pinpoints several experiences as particularly important...

... in Amida Buddha and that anyone, even a wicked person, is eligible for Amida's compassion. The author pinpoints several experiences as particularly important in the development of these ideas. At Hiei, Shinran became dissatisfied with the Tendai monastic life. Seeking a new model for religious practice, he...

... dealing with the contrasts between Eastern and Western doctrines, with a view to the discovery of possibilities in both for a future synthesis into a truly planetary philosophy. Within the compass of this review it is possible to comment on only a few of the many points of interest that arise from...

...). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 769 with respect to the earth or track; I thought he was referring to the heading, wanting me to point the ship south-southwest by compass." In other words, this "ambiguity" was a misunderstanding between...

... is largely successful. The Book of Burial is the progenitor of Form School fengshui , while the Yellow Emperor's Classic is the earliest text outlining theories of the cosmological school, the precursor of Compass School fengshui . Paton has therefore introduced the seminal texts of both schools...

... in the eventual, fateful creation of the “inner compass” of Wen Tianxiang (1236–83), the end-of-the-dynasty loyalist statesman and rejuvenated poet who churned out two influential collections of morally meaningful and emotionally charged poetry toward the end of his life. Fuller interprets this “inner compass...

... consideration of all persons concerned about the future of Asia and the future of the West as well! University of Chicago DONALD F. LACH Buddhism, A Religion of Infinite Compassion: Selections from Buddhist Literature. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by CLARENCE H. HAMILTON. New York: The Liberal Arts...

..., the collection of “texts” that becomes the subject of Hayot's scrutiny includes medical portraits, photographs, novels, postcards, diary entries, physician journals, costume books, cartoons, plastinated bodies, and even kidney stones. The chapter on “The Compassion Trade” uses early nineteenth-century picture...