..., 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...

... by an Epitome of Padma-Sambhava's Biography and followed by "Guru" Phadampa Sangay's Teachings, according to English Renderings by Sardar Bahadur 5. W. Laden La, and by the Lamas Karma Sumdhon Paul Lobzang Mingyur Dorje, and Kazi DawaSamdup. Introductions, Annotations and Editing by W. Y. EVANS-WENTZ...

...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 © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...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...

...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...

...—as a site for Buddhist global exchange and translingual practice, when the notion of “karma” offered Huxley and his Chinese translator and readers at once a ground of convergence and a point of departure. To Lu Xun and his brother Zhou Zuoren, from a hereditary perspective, karma has assumed the other name...

...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...

...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 The book includes an extensive bibliography and a brief, useful glossary of key terms. Despite errors in editing, this study makes an important contribution to religious anthropology by providing an emic perspective on shamanic experience and by drawing on multiple, cross...

...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 ©...

...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...

... paintings following Situ's thangka design of the Eight Great Bodhisattvas, thus confirming Situ's artistic legacy in Yunnan. In the remainder of his meticulously composed essay, Debreczeny documents Lijiang patronage of the Karma Kagyü order from the early sixteenth century, and details how Situ asserted...

... 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...

... 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...

..., 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...