Books Received

Advaita Vedānta. Edited by R. Balasubramanian. Volume II, Part 2 of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, edited by D. P. Chatto-padhyaya. New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 417. Price not given.

Aesthetics & Chaos: Investigating a Creative Complicity. Edited by Grazia Marchianò. Torino, Italy: Trauben Edizioni, 2002. Pp. 213. Paper 15,00 Euro.

Buddhism, Ethics and Society: The Conflicts and Dilemmas of Our Times. By Padmasiri de Silva. Victoria, Australia: Monash University Press, 2002. Pp. 236. Paper $24.95.

Chinese Ethics in a Global Context: Moral Bases of Contemporary Societies. Edited by Karl-Heinz Pohl and Anselm W. Müller. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. xxv + 419. Price not given.

A Companion to Yi Jing Numerology and Cosmology: Chinese Studies of Images and Numbers from Han (202 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) to Song (960-1279 C.E.). By Bent Nielsen. New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Pp. xix + 391. Hardcover $55.00.

Culture and Humanity in the New Millennium: The Future of Human Values. Edited by Kwok Siu Tong and Chan Sin-wai. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2002. Pp. x + 191. Paper $22.00.

Developments in Indian Philosophy from Eighteenth Century Onwards: Classical and Western. By Daya Krishna. Volume X Part I of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, edited by D. P. Chattopadhyaya. New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 2001. Pp. li + 696. Price not given.

Early India: From the Origins to A.D. 1300. By Romila Thapar. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xxx + 556. Hardcover $34.95.

The First Great Political Realist: Kautilya and His Arthashastra. By Roger Boesche. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2002. Pp. xii + 127. Hardcover $60.00.

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. Volume Three. By Tsong-kha-pa. Translated by the Lamrim Chenmo Translation Committee, Joshua W. C. Cutler, editor-in-chief, Guy Newland, editor. Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion Publications, 2002. Pp. 447. Hardcover $39.95, £26.95.

Imagining Japan: The Japanese Tradition and Its Modern Interpretation. By Robert N. Bellah. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 254. Hardcover $60.00. Paper $24.95.

Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth. By Gananath Obeyesekere. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xxix + 448. Hardcover $60.00, £40.00. Paper $24.95, £17.95.

Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed Word. Edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. lxii + 515. Hardcover $46.95. Paper $28.95.

Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies. Edited by Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. viii + 408. Hardcover $69.95. Paper $22.95.

Michael Dummett. By Bernhard Weiss. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. ix + 197. Hardcover $55.00. Paper $18.95.

Mystical Consciousness: Western Perspectives and Dialogue with Japanese Thinkers. By Louis Roy, O. P. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. Pp. xxi + 229. Hardcover $62.50. Paper 20.95.

Philosophy: Key Texts. By Julian Baggini. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xii + 140. Hardcover $65.00. Paper $19.95.

Political Behavior of Indian State Governors: A Study of the Role of Governor in Orissa. By Digambar Mishra. New Delhi: Saskiti, 2003. Pp. xii + 126. Hardcover. $25.00.

Sensory Biographies: Lives and Deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists. By Robert Desjarlais. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. x + 396. Hardcover $54.95, £37.95. Paper $21.95, £15.95.

The Sound of Two Hands Clapping: The Education of a Tibetan Buddhist Monk. By Georges B. J. Dreyfus. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xv + 445. Hardcover $60.00, £40.00. Paper $24.95, £17.95.

Ways of Understanding the Human Past: Mythic, Epic, Scientific and Historic. By D. P. Chattopadhyaya. New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 2000. Pp. x + 164. Price not given.

W. B. Yeats and the Upaniads. By Shalini Sikka. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2002. Pp. xi + 176. Hardcover $51.95.

Westward Dharma: Buddhism beyond Asia. Edited by Charles...