Spirited Women: Gender, Religion, & Cultural Identity in the Nepal Himalaya. By Joanne C. Watkins. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, xii, 347 pages, ISBN 0-231-10215-1 (paper), $18.50.
Reviewed by Karen C. Lang
Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sūtra. By Donald S Lopez, Jr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996, xii, 264 pages.
Reviewed by Jay Garfield
Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature (Women in Culture and Society Series). By Liz Wilson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 258 pages, ISBN 0-2269-0054-1, (paperback), $19.95.
Reviewed by Tessa Bartholomeusz
Ethical Issues in Six Religious Traditions. Edited By Peggy Morton and Clive Lawton. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996, 320 pages, ISBN 0-7486-0709-9 (paperback), £14.95, $24.50.
Reviewed by Martin Baumann
The Evolving Mind: Buddhism, Biology, and Consciousness. By Robin Cooper. Birmingham: Windhorse, 1996, 266 pages, ISBN 0-904-76674-8 (paperback), $21.95.
Reviewed by Charles B. Jones
Buddhism into the Year 2000. International Conference Proceedings. Bangkok and Los Angeles: The Dhammakaya Foundation, 1994, 345 pages, ISBN 974-89209-3-3 (cloth), £24.95; $39.95.
Reviewed by Martin Baumann
The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism. By Steve Odin. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 482. ISBN: 0-7914-2492-8 (paperback), $24.95.
Working Emptiness: Toward a Third Reading of Emptiness in Buddhism and Postmodern Thought. By Newman Robert Glass. Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 146. ISBN: 0-7885-0080-5 (cloth), $38.95; ISBN: 0-7885-0081-3 (paperback), $25.95.
Reviewed by Steven Heine
Walking on Lotus Flowers, Buddhist Women Living, Loving and Meditating. By Martine Batchelor. San Francisco: Thorsons, HarperCollins, 1996, xiv, 205 pages, ISBN 0-7225-3231-8, £9.99; $18.00.
Reviewed by Sylvia Wetzel
Extending the Hand of Fellowship: The Relations of the Western Buddhist Order to the Rest of the World. By Sangharakshita. Windhorse Publications, 1996, 48 pages, ISBN 0-904766-62-4, $5.95.
Reviewed by Sandra Bell
Women Under the Bo Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka. By Tessa Bartholomeusz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, xx, 284 pages, 0-5214-6129-4 (cloth), $59.95.
Reviewed by Kate Blackstone
Forschungsprojekt “Buddhistischer Modernismus”. Edited By Detlef Kantowsky. Forschungsberichte: Universitaet Konstanz, Arbeitsbereich “Entwicklungslaender und interkultureller Vergleich,” Konstanz, 1990-1996 (cont.)
Reviewed by Oliver Freiberger