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...Robert A. F. Thurman Hidden Treasures and Secret Lives: A Study of Pemalingpa (1450–1521) and the Sixth Dalai Lama (1683–1706) . By Michael Aris . London and New York : Kegan Paul International , 1989 . xi, 278 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991...

...Karen Lang Tsong Khapa's Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence: Reason and Enlightenment in the Central Philosophy of Tibet . By Tsong Khapa Blobzang Grags-Pa (1357–1419). Translated by Robert A. F. Thurman . Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton...

...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...

... of California, Berkeley The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture. TRANSLATED BY ROBERT A. F. THURMAN. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Studies of World Religions, 1976. Glossaries. $14.50 As Robert A. F. Thurman says...

... Eloquence: Reason and Enlightenment in the Central Philosophy of Tibet. By TSONG KHAPA BLOBZANG GRAGS-PA (1357-1419). Translated by ROBERT A. F. THURMAN. Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) xvii, 442 pp...

... AND INNER ASIA 581 available to a broader audience by translating and elucidating some of its key concepts in the light of Wittgenstein's philosophy. Thurman credits his study of Wittgenstein with making it possible for him to translate the Buddhist tradition's nonegocentric critical analysis...

... (Oxford University Press, 2001). Wallace's Inner Kālacakratantra is an essential introduction to the present book (as Robert Thurman states in his brief introduction to the present translation). It provides an in-depth contextualization of both the Kālacakra within Vajrayāna , as well...

... terminology in the Tantras. The two chapters devoted solely to Tibet are exceptional, although for different reasons. Robert A. F. Thurman's "Vajra Hermeneutics" is problematic for its glib attitude toward the ongoing dialogue on Buddhist hermeneutics, its simplistic conflation of the Ch'an and Tantric...

..., although for different reasons. Robert A. F. Thurman's "Vajra Hermeneutics" is problematic for its glib attitude toward the ongoing dialogue on Buddhist hermeneutics, its simplistic conflation of the Ch'an and Tantric traditions, and its implication that the Tibetan historiographic tradition...

... the absence of any new data is a waste of time. And when pursued so aggressively, using language sharply offensive to the Bhutanese and Tibetan believer, it is also deplorable. ROBERT A. F. THURMAN Columbia University China's Rural Industry: Structure, Development, and Reform. Edited by W I L L I A M A. B Y R...

... reinterpretation of dukkha as institutionalized social BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 883 oppression, his rejection of karma and rebirth, and his vision of nirvana as a "kingdom of righteousness on earth" can be counted as Buddhism at all. Using Robert Thurman's discussion of Buddhist hermeneutics, Queen persuasively...

... Antal with Visnu, and Ramanuja's rejection of a married life. Two essays discuss Buddhist asceticism: Robert Thurman's rather elementary "Tibetan Buddhist Perspectives of Asceticism," and William Deal's more interesting "Towards a Politics of Asceticism." Deal's essay makes a serious effort to define...

... [GRANT K. GOODMAN] 95 SACHS, The Discovery of the Third World [RAKESH MOHAN] 7 31 SEN (ed The Sino-lndian Border Question [LEO E. ROSE] 96 SEN GUPTA, Soviet-Asian Relations in the 1970s and Beyond [USHA MAHAJANI] 499 THURMAN (trans The Holy Teaching ofVimalakirti [G. W. HOUSTON] 318 Central Asia CANFIELD...

... and teachings of Nagarjuna, Robert A. F. Thurman identifies operative principles and guidelines for a "politics of enlightenment" (a phrase gaining currency); the teachings of Buddha Sakyamuni form the core of studies by Sulak Sivaraksa and Walpola Rahula. Further, chapters by Christina Feldman, Jack Kornfield...

... in uence on later social and political revolutionaries. While for Americans, Martin Luther King Jr. is the best-known example, Hardiman points to earlier African-American leaders Howard Thurman and Bayard Rustin who were in uenced by Gandhi s nonviolent methods of civil resistance and to Malcolm X...

... vision of nirvana as a "kingdom of righteousness on earth" can be counted as Buddhism at all. Using Robert Thurman's discussion of Buddhist hermeneutics, Queen persuasively situates Ambedkar among other Buddhist thinkers who have "reframed and reinvented central elements of Buddhist teaching...

... beyond Kant. The last thing one needs in ethical reflection is a repudiation of the reality of the self. Elizabeth Gallu writes a response, but others, such as Sten H. Stenson and Steven Rockefeller, and especially the Buddhologists Taitetsu Unno, Robert A. F. Thurman, and Anne C. Klein, point...

... opinions. Another example of Hardiman s contribution to the scholarship on Gandhi concerns the Indian s in uence on later social and political revolutionaries. While for Americans, Martin Luther King Jr. is the best-known example, Hardiman points to earlier African-American leaders Howard Thurman...

...] 389 SPENCE, The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci [TIMOTHY BROOK] 831 TSONG KHAPA; THURMAN (trans Tsong Khapa's Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence: Reason and 580 Enlightenment in the Central Philosophy of Tibet [KAREN LANG] 1136 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES VIATKIN (trans Syma Tsyan...

..., Hung-Chao, 364, 896 Taira, Koji, 153 Talbot, Cynthia, 308 Tamanoi, Mariko Asano, 793 Tang, Wen Fang, 377 Tartakov, Gary Michael, 188 Taylor, Robert H., 207 Thayer, Nathaniel B., 654 Thomas, Lynn, 455 Thompson, Roger R., 387 Thurman, Robert A. F., 375 Torrance, Richard, 160 Truong Buu Lam, 208, 210 Tuan...