...Jeffrey Broughton Dialectical Aspects in Buddhist Thought: Studies in Sino-Japanese Mahāyāna Idealism . By Alfonso Verdu . International Studies, East Asian Series Research Publication, Number Eight. Kansas : Center for Asian Studies , The University of Kansas, 1974 . v, 273 pp. Notes...

...Karen Christina Lang Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in Mahāyāna Tradition . By Diana Y. Paul , with contributions by Frances Wilson. Berkeley : Asian Humanities Press/Lancaster-Miller, Inc. , 1979 . xxii, 333 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $19. Copyright © Association...

...Daniel L. Overmyer Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in the Mahāyāna Tradition . 2d edition . By Diana Y. Paul , with contributions by Frances Wilson. Berkeley : University of California Press , 1985 . xxviii, 333 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $30.00...

...Eva Neumaier Dargyay A History of Indian Buddhism: From Śākyamuni to Early Mahāyāna . By Hirakawa Akira . Edited and translated by Paul Groner . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1990 . xviii, 402 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993...

...G. W. Houston Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978 1978 The Holy Teaching of Vimalakīrti: A Mahāyāna Scripture . Translated By Robert A. F. Thurman . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Studies...

...Todd T. Lewis Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations . By Paul Williams . New York : Routledge , 1989 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 122 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES organization as it was presumed to exist just prior to European contact...

...Stephen Kaplan Mādhyamika and Yogācāra: A Study of Mahāyāna Philosophies . By Gadjin M. Nagao . Edited, collated, and translated by Leslie S. Kawamura . New York : State University of New York Press , 1991 . xiv, 304 pp. $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...  2014 Yaroslav Komarovski's book is a comprehensive treatment of the works of Shakya Chokden (1428–1507), a hitherto little-studied, controversial interpreter of Mahāyāna Buddhism who argued for a reconfiguration of Mahāyāna doxographical classification. Based on many volumes of texts by Shakya...

... European, American, Indian, and Japanese scholars, it has long been the common assumption, if not always the explicitly advanced thesis, that Mahayana Buddhist thought reached a kind of philosophical pinnacle in the expostulation of Madhyamika. The doctrine of emptiness (s'unyatd), as it was formulated...

... Wolpert analyzes the six classical schools of "Hindu" philosophy at the same time he discusses tantrism and other "modifications" of the classical tradition. And all this falls under a chapter on the "classical age." Would any qualified historian fail to distinguish Theravada from Mahayana Buddhism? Did...

... and Buddhism," considers the sources from which Arnold de- "Hinayana and Mahayana," "The Mahayana rived his knowledge of Buddhism, the manner Schools," and, finally, "The Bodhisattva Ideal." in which he adopted his material, and the ques- These are again subdivided into many minor tion of the accuracy...

...) he focuses exclusively on the figure of Mara as it appears in the early texts of Hinayana and Mahayana Buddhism. Having thus carefully established the poles of the comparison, he then undertakes a third and concluding section in which he delineates the major similarities and differences between...

... "demythologizing" that faulted Ling's treatment. And in the case of Mara, he extends the range of sources under study by including early Mahayana as well as Hinayana texts, distinguishing more clearly than did Ling between the "function" and "meaning" of the Mara mythology; as a result, he develops a more...

... THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES teachers. The author is especially insightful at developing the recurring continuities and transformations evident in the logic of doctrinal history. Mahayana Buddhism should find a place in survey courses and seminars on Buddhism. The straightforward approach and clarity of prose...

.... this reviewer perhaps the most interesting The book as a whole is divided into four "^ chapter in the book. Here Professor Wright main chapters: "The Buddha and Buddhism," considers the sources from which Arnold de- "Hinayana and Mahayana," "The Mahayana rived his knowledge of Buddhism, the manner Schools...

... of three famous monks—Chuk Mor, Yen Pei, and Ashin Jinarakkhita—all of whom demonstrated their devotion to the propagation of Buddhism beyond the Mahāyāna territories of twentieth-century Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. The book's value stems from the fact that it looks beyond “Greater China” (mainland...

..., Ritsu, and Kegon) the six Theravada schools. Unfortunately, this is an incorrect characterization. Although the Jo jitsu and Kusha teachings were not Mahayana, the Sanron, Hosso , and Kegon lineages belong to Mahayana Buddhism, even though the Sanron and Hosso lineages incorporated Jo jitsu and Kusha...

... not Mahayana, the Sanron, Hosso , and Kegon lineages belong to Mahayana Buddhism, even though the Sanron and Hosso lineages incorporated Jo jitsu and Kusha teachings. The founder of Tendai Buddhism, Saicho , may have referred to the Nara Schools polemically as Hinayana and quasi-Mahayana to portray his Lotus...

.... By DAVID LOY. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. x, 346 pp. $32.50. The aim of this book is to demonstrate and defend the thesis that the "nondualist systems" of Taoism, Advaita Vedanta, and Mahayana Buddhism especially the latter two are based on a similar nondualistic experience that is explicated...

... century. The Mons practiced primarily the HTnayana branch of Buddhism, so their votive tablets featured images of Sakyamuni Buddha or tales from the Buddha's life. However, the existence of a few tablets depicting bodhisattvas suggests that Mahayana Buddhism was also present. The earliest stylistic...