| |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
|
 .....Altruism
and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryaavataara. By
Paul Williams. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1998, ISBN 0700710310, cloth
£40.00, $48.00. Reviewed by John W. Pettit
.....Being
Good: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life. By Master Hsing Yun; translated
by Tom Graham. New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1999, 176 pages, ISBN 0-8348-0458-1,
US $14.95.
Reviewed by Damien Keown
.....Zen
in Medieval Vietnam: A Study and Translation of the Thien Uyen Tap Anh.
By Cuong Tu Nguyen. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997, 488 pages,
ISBN 0-8248-1948-9, US $55.00. Reviewed by Peter C.
Phan
.....American
Buddhism. Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship. Edited by Duncan
Ryuken Williams and Christopher S. Queen. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999,
xxxvii + 329 pages, ISBN 0-7007-1081-7, £ 40,00 (cloth). Reviewed
by Martin Baumann
.....The
Faces of Buddhism in America.
Edited by Charles S. Prebish and Kenneth
K. Tanaka. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, viii + 370 pages,
ISBN 0-520-21301-7, US $50 (cloth), $22 (paper). Reviewed
by Franz Aubrey Metcalf
.....Buddhist
Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka. Edited by Tessa
J. Bartholomeusz and Chandra R. de Silva. New York: State University of
New York Press, 1998, 320 pages, ISBN 0-7914-3834-1, US $19.95. Reviewed
by Mavis L. Fenn
.....Emptiness
in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism: Dynamic Responses to Dzong-ka-ba's
The Essence of Eloquence: I. By Jeffrey Hopkins. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1999, xiv + 528 pages, ISBN: 0-520-21119-7 (cloth),
US $45.00. Reviewed by Paul G. Hackett
.....Philosophical
Meditations on Zen Buddhism. By Dale S. Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998, ISBN: 0-521-59010-8, US $53.95. Reviewed
by Steven Heine
.....Compassion
and Benevolence: A Comparative Study of Early Buddhist and Classical Confucian
Ethics. By Ok-Sun An. Asian Thought and Culture, vol. 31, General Editor
Sandra Wawrytko. New York: Peter Lang, 1998, ISBN 0-8204-3801-4, £26.
Reviewed
by Damien Keown
.....The
Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still.
By Dinty W. Moore. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1997. Pp. 208. ISBN
1565121422 US $19.95. Reviewed by Richard Hughes Seager
.....Buddhism
and Human Rights. Edited by Damien V. Keown, Charles S. Prebish,
and Wayne R. Husted. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1998, xxi +
239 pages, ISBN: 0-7007-0954-1, US $40.00. Reviewed
by Donald K. Swearer
.....The
Authority of Experience: Essays on Buddhism and Psychology. Edited
by John Pickering. London: Curzon Press, 1997. Pp. 250. ISBN: 0700704558,
US $22.95 [clothbound ISBN: 0700704507, US $42.00].
Reviewed by Gay Watson
.....The
Heart of Being: Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen Buddhism. By John
Daido Loori. Boston: Charles E.Tuttle, 1996. Pp. 267. ISBN0-8048-3078-9.
$16.95. Reviewed by Damien Keown
.....The
Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions.
By Andrew Rawlinson. Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court,
1997. Pp. 650. ISBN 0-8126-9310-8. Reviewed
by David Kinsley
.....The
Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism. By Martin Brauen. Translated
by Martin Wilson, with photographs by Peter Nebel and Doro Roethlisberger.
Boston: Shambhala, 1997. Pp. 151. ISBN 1-57062-296-5, US $45.00. Reviewed
by Frank J. Korom
.....Nirvana
and Other Buddhist Felicities: Utopias of the Pali imaginaire. By Steven
Collins. Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions, No. 12. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1998, xxiv + 684 pages, ISBN 0-521-57054-9,
US $85.00 (cloth). Reviewed by James P. McDermott
.....Sisters
in Solitude: Two Traditions of Buddhist Monastic Ethics for Women.
By Karma Lekshe Tsomo. Albany, New York: State University of New
York Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 198. ISBN 0-7914-3089-8 (Cloth).
$59.50; 0-7914-3090-1 (Paper), $19.95. Reviewed
by Charles S. Prebish ; Reviewed
by Dharmapala.
.....Zen
at War. By Brian (Daizen) A. Victoria. New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill,
1997. Pp. xii + 228. ISBN 0-8348-0405-0. $19.95. Reviewed
by Fabio Rambelli ; Reviewed
by Dharmapala.
.....Buddhism
Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening. By Stephen Batchelor.
Riverhead Books, New York, 1997 - pp.127. Price USA $21.95, Canada $29.50.
Review
by Bhikkhu Punnadhammo and review
by Urgyen Sangharakshita
.....Liberating
Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch'an Buddhism.
By peter D. Hershock. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.
Pp.236. Reviewed by Brook Ziporyn
.....Response
to Richard Pilgrim's review of The Logic of Unity, by Hosaku Matsuo and
translated by Kenneth K. Inada. Kenneth
K. Inada
.....Buddhism:
A Cultural Perspective, by LaFleur William R. Reviewed by
Mary Evelyn Tucker
.....The
Foundational Standpoint of Maadhyamika Philosophy. By Gadjin Nagao. Translated
with preface by John P. Keenan; and Maadhyamaka Schools in India: A Study
of the Maadhyamaka Philosophy and of the Division of the System into the
Praasangika and Svaatantrika Schools. By Peter Della Santina. Foreword
by Lai Mani Joshi. Reviewed by David Loy
.....Crossing
the Threshold of Hope by Pope john Paul II. Alfred A. Knof, New York,
1994. Reviewed by Dr. Tra^`n Chung Ngo.c
.....Response
to Mark Tatz' Review of Ethics of Tibet: Bodhisattva Section of Tsong-kha-pa's
Lam rim chen mo. Reviewed by
Alex Wayman
.....Reviews
the book `In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance
in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism,' edited by Janet Gyatso.
Reviewed by Alan Fox
.....Review
the Book Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation’ by Carl Bielefeldt.
Reviewed by Ryuichi Abe
.....Discussion
of Frederick Streng's "Reflections on the Attention …" and Luis O. Gomezs'
" Free-Will Question in the Nikaayas." Reviewed by Alex Wayman
.....Review
the Book ‘Dogen's Manuels of Zen Meditation’ by Carl Bielefeldt.
Reviewed by Ryuichi Abe
.....A
Buddhist Spectrum, by Marco Pallis. Reviewed by
Seyyed Hosse Nasr
.....Buddhist
Faith and Sudden Enlightedment, by Sung Bae Park.
Reviewed by Donald W. Mitchell
.....The
Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism. Reviewed
by Aaron k. Koseki
.....The
Buddha Eye:An Anthology of the Kyoto School, edit by Frederick Franck.
Reviewed by Steven Heine
.....The
Oriental Religious and American Thought: Nineteenth-Century Explorations
by Carl T. Jackson. Reviewed by Pedersen, K. Priscilla
.....The
Zen Philosopher: A Review Article on Dogen Scholarship in English.
By T. P. Kasulis |
