Justin Ritzinger.
Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 352 pp.
$74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-049116-1. 
Reviewed by Lei Ying (Amherst College) Published on H-Buddhism (February, 2021) Commissioned by Jessica Zu (USC Dornsife, School of Religion)
Michelle C. Wang. Maṇḍalas in the Making: The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2018. xvii + 318 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-35765-5.
Reviewed by Zhenru Zhou (The University of Chicago) Published on H-Buddhism (January, 2021) Commissioned by Jessica Zu (USC Dornsife, School of Religion)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55814
Yuhang Li. Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xii + 299 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-40088-7.
Reviewed by Jacqueline Chao (Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas) Published on H-Buddhism (January, 2021) Commissioned by Jessica Zu (USC Dornsife, School of Religion)
Matthew W. King. Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 304 pp. $64.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-231-54922-6; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19106-7.
Reviewed by Brenton Sullivan (Colgate University) Published on H-Buddhism (December, 2020) Commissioned by Jessica Zu (USC Dornsife, School of Religion)
Richard D. McBride.
Aspiring to Enlightenment: Pure Land Buddhism in Silla Korea.
Pure Land Buddhist Studies. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2020. 247 pp.
$68.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-8260-0.
Reviewed by Charles B. Jones (The Catholic University of America) Published on H-Buddhism (December, 2020) Commissioned by Sujung Kim (DePauw University)
Michael R. Sheehy, Klaus-Dieter Mathes, eds.
The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. 448 pp.
$100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-7757-2.
Avram Alpert.
Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki.
SUNY Press, 2019. xv + 435 pages.
$90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-7385-7.
Reviewed by John Barbour (St. Olaf College) Published on H-Buddhism (November, 2020) Commissioned by Ben Van Overmeire (Duke Kunshan University)
Lynn A. Struve.
The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2019. Illustrations. 439 pp.
$72.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-7525-1.
Reviewed by Yuzhou Bai (Princeton University) Published on H-Buddhism (November, 2020) Commissioned by Jessica Zu (USC Dornsife, School of Religion)
John Jorgensen, Dan Lusthaus, John Makeham, Mark Strange, ed. and trans. Treatise on Awakening Mahāyāna Faith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 184 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-029770-1.
Reviewed by Tao Jin (Illinois Wesleyan University) Published on H-Buddhism (October, 2020) Commissioned by Jessica Zu (USC Dornsife, School of Religion)
Dewei Zhang. Thriving in Crisis: Buddhism and Political Disruption in China, 1522-1620. The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 368 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19700-7.
Reviewed by Chun-fang Yu (Columbia University) Published on H-Buddhism (October, 2020) Commissioned by Jessica Zu (USC Dornsife, School of Religion)
Ira Helderman. Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 328 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-4852-1; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-4851-4.
Reviewed by Seth Zuiho Segall (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Buddhism (October, 2020) Commissioned by Ben Van Overmeire (Duke Kunshan University)
Daniel Veidlinger. From Indra's Net to Internet: Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas. Contemporary Buddhism Series. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018. 284 pp. $68.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-7340-0.
Reviewed by James Taylor (The University of Adelaide) Published on H-Buddhism (September, 2020) Commissioned by Ben Van Overmeire (Duke Kunshan University)
Brian Daizen Victoria.
Zen Terror in Prewar Japan: Portrait of an Assassin.
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020. 392 pp.
$34.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5381-3166-4.
Michal Pagis. Inward: Vipassana Meditation and the Embodiment of the Self. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 240 pp. $27.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-36187-1.
Reviewed by Tyler Carter (Duke Kunshan University) Published on H-Buddhism (September, 2020) Commissioned by Ben Van Overmeire (Duke Kunshan University)
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Yingcong Dai. The White Lotus War: Rebellion and Suppression in Late Imperial China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 664 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74545-9.
Reviewed by Daniel Burton-Rose (Seoul National University Language Education Institute) Published on H-Buddhism (September, 2020) Commissioned by Jessica Zu (USC Dornsife, School of Religion)
