Books Received

The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen. By Jeffrey L. Broughton. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 186. Price not given.

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left. By Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Žižek. New York: Verso, 2000. Pp. 329. Paper $20.00.

Dialogue of Civilizations: An Introduction to Civilizational Analysis. By Victor Segesvary. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc., 2000. Hardcover $49.00. Paper $27.50.

Hatha-Yoga: Its Context, Theory and Practice. By Mikel Burley. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, 2000. Pp. xviii + 321. Price not given.

Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan. By Brian D. Ruppert. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xviii + 505. Hardcover $49.50.

Knowledge, Belief, and Character: Readings in Virtue Epistemology. Edited by Guy Axtell. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2000. Pp. xxix + 224. Hardcover $64.00. Paper $21.95.

The Nature of Things: Emptiness and Essence in the Geluk World. By William Magee. Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1999. Pp. xii + 257. Paper $22.95 (U.S.), £15.95 (U.K.).

People of the Land: A Pacific Philosophy. By John Patterson. Palmerston North, New Zealand: Dunmore Press Ltd., 2000. Pp. 149. Paper $29.95.

Reading Zen in the Rocks: The Japanese Dry Landscape Garden. By François Berthier and translated with a philosophical essay by Graham Parkes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 166. Hardcover $20.00 (U.S.), £14.00 (U.K.).

Relativa mente: I Dialoghi di Platone e l' I ching. By Silvia Voltolina con uno scritto di Giangiorgio Pasqualotto. Susegana (Treviso), Italy: Giacobino Editore, 1999. Pp. 81. Price not given.

Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyoō. By Ian Reader. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. Pp. xvi + 304. Hardcover $48.00. Paper $23.95.

The Sage and the Second Sex: Confucianism, Ethics, and Gender. Edited by Chen-yang Li. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2000. Pp. 272. Hardcover $54.95. Paper $24.95.

Trattato Sul Leone D'Oro. By Fazang a cura di Giangiorgio Pasqualotto e Stefano Zacchetti. Padova, Italy: Esedra editrice s.r.l., 2000. Pp. 261. Paper L 32,000, euro 16.52.