...Matthew T. Kapstein Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings: Illuminated Manuscripts from The White Beryl of Sangs-rgyas rGya-mtsho, with the Moonbeams Treatise of Lo-chen Dharmaśrī . Commentary and translations By Gyurme Dorje . London : John Eskenazi in association with Sam Fogg , 2001...

... with the revealed textual tradition in both cultures. Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece outlines the issues in modern debates, and occasionally tries to settle them. Chinese and Greek mantic practice contributed to systematic thought in different ways. Chinese notions of symmetry...

...Charles F. Keyes Divination in Thailand: The Hopes and Fears of a Southeast Asian People . By H. G. Quaritch Wales . London : Curzon Press , 1983 . xiii, 145 pp. Plates, Glossary, Index. $10.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA...

... on political murder in China. After reading this book, it is hard to conceive of modern Chinese history as a clash of larger-than-life heroes and villains, because the stage is mostly littered with victims. RICHARD E. BARRETT University of Illinois at Chicago Fortune-tellers and Philosophers: Divination...

...Vesna A. Wallace Divine Knowledge: Buddhist Mathematics According to the Anonymous Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination . By Brian Baumann . Leiden : Brill , 2008 . xvii , 890 pp. $279.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010...

... Govindarāja, commenting on the Sanskrit text (4.18.45), gives a very similar explanation of Rāma's action, and adds that if Vālin had taken refuge with Rāma, Rāvaṇa would have followed suit, and the divine mission would have thus been frustrated. See Srinivasa Sastri (n. 6 above), pp. 147–48. This notion...

...Vasudha Narayanan BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 185 beliefs. Nichter and Rizvi have added to the food-and-health medical knowledge of South Asia. RUTH S. FREED American Museum of Natural History Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition. By DAVID KINSLEY. Berkeley...

...Julia K. Murray The Divine Nature of Power: Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci . By Tracy G. Miller . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2007 . xx, 265 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011...

...Daniel J. Meckel Mad and Divine: Spirit and Psyche in the Modern World . By Sudhir Kakar . Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press , 2009 . 192 pp. $24.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 In this volume, Sudhir Kakar once...

...Elaine Craddock At the Feet of the Goddess: The Divine Feminine in Local Hindu Religion . By Lynn Foulston . Brighton and Portland, Ore. : Sussex Academic Press , 2002 . xvi , 242 pp. $69.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 222 T H E J O U R N A L O F...

...James Robson To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents . By Robert Ford Campany . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2002 . xxviii, 607 pp. $95.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian...

...Michael Dalby The Divine Woman: Dragon Ladies and Rain Maidens in T'ang Literature . By Edward H. Schafer . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1973 . viii, 191 pp. Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975...

...Dennis McGilvray The Divine Hierarchy: Popular Hinduism in Central India . By Lawrence A. Babb . New York : Columbia University Press , 1975 . xviii, 266 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $12.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK REVIEWS 567 one can...

... the Divine interrogates a corpus of theories across disciplines in sections across chapters. This produces a somewhat inconsistent style of prose, extremely academic in parts juxtaposed with simpler descriptive narrative of the actual life and practice of Four Palace mediums. It is a challenging...

...Kirin Narayan Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine Embodiment: Oral Narratives from the Central Himalayas . By Aditya Malik . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 . xxi, 295 pp. ISBN: 9780199325092 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... into the orthodox Hindu textual tradition in the myths of the Devī-Māhātmya , or Candī , as this sixth-century A.D. text is known in Bengal. She subsequently became the chief divinity as Female Principle (Śakti, ‘Force’, ‘Creatrix’) in the esoteric Sākta Tantra cult, which was especially prevalent in eastern India...

... pursing, and scholars wishing to unravel the complexities of Central Asian and medieval Chinese art will rely on Rhie s massive study. SARAH E. FRASER Northwestern University The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture. By RICHARD VON GLAHN. Berkeley and Los Angeles...

... accessible, it could be adopted for undergraduate courses in history, religious studies, and anthropology. CYNTHIA ANN HUMES Claremont McKenna College Rasa: Performing the Divine in India. By SUSAN L. SCHWARTZ. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xi, 118 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). A slim...

...James J. Preston Divine Affairs: Religion, Pilgrimage, and the State in Colonial and Postcolonial India . By Ishita Banerjee Dube . Shimla : Indian Institute of Advanced Study , 2001 . 196 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 310 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...