...Cynthia Packert Atherton Unfolding a Maṇḍala: The Buddhist Cave Temples at Ellora . By Geri H. Malandra . SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies. Albany : State University of New York Press , 1993 . xx, 348 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK...

...Agehananda Bharati The Theory and Practice of the Mandala . By Giuseppe Tucci . London : Rider & Company , 1961 . ix , 147 . Plates, Index. 25s. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 130 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES not list W. Ruben's Das Pancatantra und...

...Deborah E. Tooker Abstract In this article, I argue that the ‘mandala’ and other spatialized concepts associated with the ‘cosmic polity’ in Southeast Asia (such as ‘exemplary center’ and ‘sinking status’, ‘galactic polity’, ‘concentric circles’, ‘nested emboxment’, etc.) are key concepts...

...T. Riccardi, Jr. Nepal Mandala: A Cultural Study of the Kathmandu Valley . By Mary Shepherd Slusser . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1982 . 2 vols. Vol. 1: Text, Bibliography, Index (xix, 491 pp.). Vol. 2: Plates (xix, 599 black-and-white plates). $ 125. Copyright ©...

...Jonathan Edelmann Krishna's Mandala: Bhagavata Religion and Beyond . By D. Dennis Hudson . Edited by John Stratton Hawley . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2010 . 298 pp. $74.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Dedicatory volumes...

...Daniel Perdue Orderly Chaos: The Mandala Principle . By Chögyam Trungpa . Edited by Sherab Chödzin . Boston : Shambhala , 1991 . ix, 184 pp. $13.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 9 7 1 postmodern message that the search...

...Elizabeth Horton Sharf Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography . By Elizabeth Ten Grotenhuis . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1999 . x, 227 pp. $52.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN...

...Ryan Richard Overbey Spells, Images, and Maṇḍalas: Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals . By Koichi Shinohara . New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . xxii, 324 pp. ISBN: 9780231166140 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016...

... for the Body: A Contemporary Perspective on Tibetan Buddhist Tantra goes beyond the standard philosophical, ritual, and textual discussions of authentic or authoritative aspects of body mandala practice. Dachille focuses on a debate between fifteenth-century Tibetan scholars Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo (1382–1456...

...- The Theory and Practice of the Mandala. By GIUSEPPE TUCCI. London: Rider & Company, 1961. ix, 147. Plates, Index. 25s. ferences. He is wrong where he posits an ontology in Buddhism in any of its forms (p. 3). The basic difference between Hindu and Buddhist doctrine is precisely this: Hinduism...

... Indologists never die, they just reincarnate. JOANNE PUNZO WAGHORNE University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Orderly Chaos: The Mandala Principle. By CHOGYAM TRUNGPA. Edited by SHERAB CHODZIN. Boston: Shambhala, 1991. ix, 184 pp. $13.00. This publication is the fourth in the Dharma Ocean Series, a planned...

... research institute, locally known as the Samsodhana Mandala. This institute is not referred to anywhere in Regmi's work. Both of the above-cited examples concerning the identification of BhoginI and the epithetic name of Amsuvarma were published decades ago in the Nepal Samachdr (VS. 2018, Caitra 10...

... the highest point in tombs and temples, suggests that the original function of the four-bird motive must have been that of a ceiling decoration. This inference is supported by the occurence of what is, in effect, a_ four-bird mandala painted on the ceiling of a (seventh century ?) cave-temple at Ming Öi near...

...- important contribution. Some of the definitions signed but only fairly well carried out. are concise and profound, even though marred PUNYA SLOKA RAY by stylistically enthusiastic diction, but then the Yale University book was written in Italian. The statement of the purpose of mandala belongs...

... such as “the brahmanical archive” to refer to brahmanical Sanskrit literature (p. 38). He also uses the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu, and combines them with Louis Dumont's description of a vertical social hierarchy in order to suggest the image of a “social maṇḍala ” as a more comprehensive way of describing the society...

... without referring to ideas raised in History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives, specifically, cultural matrix, "men of prowess," mandala, and localization. Although Wolters himself acknowledged that aspects of these concepts were first developed in the work of other scholars, his...

... alternately Hindu and Buddhist gods as well as local spirits" (p. 59). The pantheon is properly judged to be inseparable from its supports: the unhewed stone, the enshrined or open-air image, the yantra, the mandala, and the temple. The mandala, especially, occurs as the theme of the succeeding sections...

... ASIA 653 Samsodhana Mandala, respectively. Besides Purnimd, the institute has many other publications on Nepalese history and culture, which, although written in Nepali and designed for the native audience, are viewed as important sources by Western scholars as well. John Locke's Karunamaya (Kathmandu...

... to students of development in other societies. ROBERT G. VARADY University of Arizona Nepal Mandala: A Cultural Study of the Kathmandu Valley. By MARY SHEPHERD SLUSSER. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982. 2 vols. Vol. 1: Text, Bibliography, Index (xix, 491 pp Vol. 2: Plates (xix, 599 black...

... diction, but then the Yale University book was written in Italian. The statement of the purpose of mandala belongs to this category, Evolution du Style Indien d'Amaravati. By and its quotation concludes a necessarily sketchy review: PHILIPPE STERN and MIREILLE BENISTI. Paris: Presses Universitaires de...