..., XVIII, 43. 3 Tilak Bal Gangadhar , Śrīmad Bhagavadgītā Rahasya or Karma-Yoga-Śāstra ( Poona , 1915 ) . The work went through several editions in the original Marāthī and was translated into Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kanarese, Telugu, Tamil, and English. The English edition...

...Paula Richman Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry . Edited by Charles F. Keyes and E. Valentine Daniel . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1983 . x, 314 pp. Tables, Index, Glossary. $27.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA...

..., it could have been a more worthwhile tribute to Aziz Ahmad had more of the contributors given some effort and thought to explaining why the reader should continue reading beyond the first paragraph of their essays. WARREN FUSFELD University of Pennsylvania Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry. Edited...

...Thomas Harper The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan . By William R. LaFleur . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1983 . xvi, 204 pp. Notes, Japanese Names and Terms, Bibliography, Index. $25 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). Copyright © Association...

...Benjamin Brose Living Karma: The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu . By Beverley Foulks McGuire . New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . x, 228 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Living Karma examines the life, thought...

... Teachings, according to English Renderings by Sardar Bahadur S. W. Laden La, and by the Lamas Karma Sumdhon Paul Lobzang Mingyur Dorje, and Kazi Dawa-Samdup . Introductions, Annotations and Editing by W. Y. Evans-Wentz , with Psychological Commentary by Dr. C. G. Jung . London : Oxford University Press...

...Murray Milner, Jr. Abstract Virtually all interpreters of Hinduism agree that the notions of samsara, karma , and moksa are central to nearly all varieties of Hinduism. That is, it is agreed that most Hindus assume continuing reincarnations (samsara) , that a person's current incarnation...

...Karma Lekshe Tsomo Choosing Simplicity: A Commentary on the Bhikshuni Pratimoksha . By Venerable Bhikshuni Master Wu Yin . Translated by Bhikshuni Jendy Shih . Edited by Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron . Ithaca, N.Y. : Snow Lion , 2001 . 338 pp. $15.95 (paper). Copyright ©...

...Karma Lekshe Tsomo Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia . By Manduhai Buyandelger . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 . 314 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $32.50 (paper); $7.00 to $30.00 (e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Pauline Mahar Kolenda Abstract How do ordinary people of India adapt themselves to the Hindu theory of karma and rebirth? It is said that these concepts justify and reconcile Hindus to the inequalities of the caste system and that they result in fatalism and “other-worldiness.” These, in turn...

... treated are Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Tantrism, and Shamanism; contacts between India and Central Asia, and the Indianization of Asia; Soma and karma ; ritual, epic, psychology, sex, and grammar. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 List of References Brereton Joel P...

... FUSFELD University of Pennsylvania Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry. Edited by CHARLES F. KEYES and E. VALENTINE DANIEL. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983- x, 314 pp. Tables, Index, Glossary. $27.50. For years, Indologists have identified karma as a key concept in Indian culture. Nonetheless...

... of Maharashtra . Babb Lawrence A. 1983 . “Destiny and Responsibility: Karma in Popular Hinduism.” In Keyes C. F. and Daniel E. V. , eds., Karma: An Anthropological Inquiry . Berkeley : University of California Press . Banerjee sumanta . 1980 . India's Simmering Revolution...

... a manual of orientation and supernatural world of Malit- the (Jaina) doctrine of karma, following on bog residents. He gives us some of our best the recent publications in this field, notably data on a Christian Filipino bilateral society by M. Mehta and R. Williams. The bulk of the and the Filipino...

...Nancy G. Lin Reconstructing the stylistic background of Situ's art is an ambitious undertaking that occupies chapters 4 and 5. Jackson compiles a fascinating succession of images, along with writings on art production, in order to trace early paintings commissioned within the Karma Kagyü order...

... system, value should turn out to be primarily a manual of orientation and supernatural world of Malit- the (Jaina) doctrine of karma, following on bog residents. He gives us some of our best the recent publications in this field, notably data on a Christian Filipino bilateral society by M. Mehta and R...

... from humans and bring relief from their woes. The idea of delegated authority and power is surely an attempt made by Sinhalese Buddhism to meet a great-traditional assertion: the demons, by virtue of the supremacy of the law of universal causation (karma), have no real power. Sinhalese Buddhism, like...

..., BOOK REVIEWS 503 the household, family, kinship system, value should turn out to be primarily a manual of orientation and supernatural world of Malit- the (Jaina) doctrine of karma, following on bog residents. He gives us some of our best the recent publications in this field, notably data...

..., leaving no one on the earth, and live together in the jeweled palace in heaven, abandoning our earthly residence" (p. 222). Besides wanting to increase his own good karma and to lead others to salvation, Kyokai was also motivated by pride in his country. The Koji\i, Nihongi, and Manyoshu had all been...

... to the doctrine of karma is largely indifferent or negative.3 Kammatic Buddhism is the religion of the Sinhalese masses, whose primary religious ambition is to be reborn into a better (or at least no worse) condition, by the accumulation of merit in the present life. The means of acquiring merit, or good karma...