Books Received

After Confucius: Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy. By Paul R. Goldin. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. Pp. x + 266. Hardcover $40.00.

Buddhism, Virtue and Environment. By David E. Cooper and Simon P. James. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. Pp. ix + 159. Paper $29.95.

A Catalogue of Vaiṣṇava Literature. By Charles S. J. White. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2004. Pp. x + 205. Hardcover Rs 495.

Christian Mystics of the Middle Ages: An Anthology of Writings. Edited by Paul de Jaegher, S. J., and translated by Donald Attwater and others. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2004. Pp. vii + 177. Paper $10.95.

A Comparative Study of the Jaina Theories of Reality and Knowledge. By Y. J. Padmarajiah. Reprint, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2004. Pp. x + 423. Hardcover Rs 550.

Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community. Edited by Kwong-Loi Shun and David B. Wong. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. vii + 228. Hardcover $70.00. Paper $25.99.

The Dao of Rhetoric. By Steven C. Combs. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. Pp. x + 167. Hardcover $50.00.

Dynamic Tao and Its Manifestations: A Field Theory Analysis of Lao-tzu Tao Te Ching. By Wayne L. Wang. Darien, IL: Helena Island Publisher, 2004. Pp. xvi + 164. Paper $15.95.

Early Buddhist Metaphysics: The Making of a Philosophical Tradition. By Noa Ronkin. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. Pp. xiii + 279. Hardcover $70.00.

Epistemology of Perception: Gaṅgeśa's Tattvacintāmaṇi. Translated by Stephen H. Phillips and N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya. New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2004. Pp. xiv + 723. Hardcover U.S. $62.00; £40.00.

Essentials of Buddhism and Jainism: The Avaidikadarśansaṅgraha of Gangādharavājapeyayāji. Edited by K. N. Neelakantan. Published by the author, 2003. Pp. 84. Paper Rs. 80.

Health and Long Life: The Chinese Way. By Livia Kohn in cooperation with Stephen Jackowicz. Cambridge: Three Pines Press, 2005. Pp. x + 234. Paper $24.95.

Human Nature, Ritual, and History: Studies in Xunzi and Chinese Philosophy. By Antonio S. Cua. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005. Pp. xii + 406. Hardcover $66.95.

Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader. Edited by Martin D. Yaffe. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2001. Pp. ix + 422. Paper $26.95.

Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching: A Translation of the Startling New Documents Found at Guodian. By Robert G. Henricks. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 241. Paper $18.00.

Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness: To Be, not to Be or Neither. By Karma Phuntsho. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. Pp. xv + 304. Hardcover $65.00.

Moral and Political Philosophy. By James H. Rutherford. Columbus, OH: Top 20 Publishing, 2004. Pp. iii + 147. Price not given.

On Reading the Bible: Thoughts and Reflections of Over 500 Men and Women, from St. Augustine to Oprah Winfrey. Edited by Bill Bradfield. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2005. Pp. v + 196. Paper $6.95.

Philosophie, Gesellschaft und Bildung in Zeiten der Globalisierung. By Hermann-Josef Scheidgen, Norbert Hintersteiner, and Yoshiro Nakamura. Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2005. Pp. 348. Paper U.S. $98.00; €70.00.

Philosophy, Culture, and Pluralism. Edited by William Sweet. Aylmer, Quebec: Éditions du Scribe, 2002. Pp. xxi + 200. Paper Can $19.95.

Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School and Co-Prosperity. By Christopher S. Goto-Jones. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. x + 192. Hardcover $60.00.

Religion, Science, and Non-science. By William Sweet. Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications, 2003. Pp. 98. Paper Rs. 60.00; U.S. $5.00.

Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China. By Eugene Y. Wang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv + 487. Hardcover $50.00.

Songs of Love, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the Sixth Dalai Lama. Translated by Paul Williams. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2004. Pp. vii + 190. Hardcover £16.95.

To the Mountain: Essays in Honor of Professor George F. McLean. Edited by William Sweet and Hu Yeping. Hsinchuang, Taipei Hsien: Fu Jen Catholic University Press, 2004. Pp...