Georgios Halkias, Richard K. Payne, eds. Pure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts: An Anthology. Pure Land Buddhist Studies. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2019. 808 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-7309-7.
Reviewed by Melissa Curley (The Ohio State University) Published on H-Buddhism (June, 2022) Commissioned by Jessica Zu (USC Dornsife, School of Religion)
Ruth Gamble. The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje: Master of Mahamudra. Boulder: Shambhala Publications, 2020. 296 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61180-708-0.
Reviewed by Rolf Scheuermann (Heidelberg University) Published on H-Buddhism (June, 2022) Commissioned by Lucia Galli
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56725
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. xiv + 281 pp.
$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19106-7. 
Tsultemin Uranchimeg.
A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia.
Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2021. xix + 282 pp.
Alex John Catanese.
Buddha in the Marketplace: The Commodification of Buddhist Objects in Tibet (Traditions and Transformations in Tibetan Buddhism).
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. 334 pp.
$39.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4318-3.
Karen O'Brien-Kop.
Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism: Meditation, Metaphors and Materiality (Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies).
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. 240 pp.
$115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-22999-0.
CHARLES B. JONES.
Taixu’s ‘On the Establishment of the Pure Land in the Human Realm’: A Translation and Study.
[Place of publication not identified]: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, 2020. 168 p. ; ? x cm.
$100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-14056-1.
Ester Bianchi, Weirong Shen, eds. Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across the Ages. Leiden: Brill, 2021. xiv + 378 pp. $156.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-90-04-46837-5.
Reviewed by Joshua Esler (Sheridan Institute of Higher Education) Published on H-Buddhism (January, 2022) Commissioned by Lucia Galli
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57111
Dominique Townsend. A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Illustrations. 272 pp. $29.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-231-55105-2; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-19487-7; $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19486-0.
Reviewed by Lan Wu (Mount Holyoke College) Published on H-Buddhism (January, 2022) Commissioned by Lucia Galli
Peter Schwieger.
Conflict in a Buddhist Society: Tibet under the Dalai Lamas.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2021. Illustrations. 352 pp.
$72.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-8848-0.
Robert Ford Campany.
The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE.
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020. xvi + 260 pp.
$55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-24779-6; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-674-24780-2.
Ying-Shih Yü. The Religious Ethic and Mercantile Spirit in Early Modern China. Translated by Yim-tze Kwong. Edited by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 328 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-20043-1.
Reviewed by Bin Song (Washington College) Published on H-Buddhism (January, 2022) Commissioned by Jessica Zu (USC Dornsife, School of Religion)
Brenton Sullivan. Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa. Encounters with Asia Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 304 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5267-5.
Reviewed by Jonathan Samuels (University of Oxford) Published on H-Buddhism (November, 2021) Commissioned by Lucia Galli
Michael D. Nichols.
Malleable Mara: Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil.
Albany: SUNY Press, 2019. 268 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-7321-5.
Reviewed by Simona Lazzerini (Stanford University) Published on H-Buddhism (November, 2021) Commissioned by Ben Van Overmeire (Duke Kunshan University)
Eric M. Greene. Chan Before Chan: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism. Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism Series. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2021. 337 pp. $68.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-8443-7.Eric M. Greene. The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation: Visionary Meditation Texts from Early Medieval China. Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism Series. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2021. 385 pp. $72.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-8444-4.
Shisho Ri.
『究竟一乗宝性論』と東アジア仏教: 五─七世紀の如来蔵・真如・種姓説の研究.
Tokyo-to Itabashi-ku: Kokusho Kankokai, 2020. iv + 662 pp.
ISBN 978-4-336-06454-7.
Reviewed by Tianren Jiang (Heidelberger Centrum für Transkulturelle Studien, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) Published on H-Buddhism (October, 2021) Commissioned by Jessica Zu (USC Dornsife, School of Religion)
