The Journal of the American Oriental Society articles from January 2003

The Journal of the American Oriental Society archives from January 2003

Imperial strategy and political exigency: the Red Sea spice trade and the Mamluk Sultanate in the fifteenth century.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION A salient issue in Mamluk history of the fifteenth century A.D./ninth century A.H. is the relationship of economic conditions to the formulation of the Sultanate's policies. In a landmark study, "England to Egypt, 1350-1500,"...

To cut off, purify, and make whole: historiographical and ecclesiastical conceptions of ritual space.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Notions of ritual space, and patterns of behavior within such spaces, seem to be intrinsic to individual aspiration and collective resolution as sectarian groups organize means of rationalizing life and death. The purity...

On the historical phonology of Ossetic: the origin of the oblique case suffix.
January 1, 2003... 1. THE PROBLEM: PROTO-OSSETIC OBLIQUE *-I Ossetic is spoken by approximately half a million inhabitants of the autonomous Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in the Russian Federation and the former autonomous region of South Ossetia in...

The senior manuscripts: another collection of Gandharan Buddhist scrolls.
January 1, 2003... 1. INTRODUCTION In 1994 the British Library acquired a collection of twenty-nine fragments of birch bark scrolls containing various Buddhist texts written in Kharosthi script and Gandhari (Prakrit) language (Salomon 1997). At the time,...

Tonal prosody in Chinese parallel prose.
January 1, 2003... "From Rusticus... I learned... to abstain from rhetoric, and poetry, and fine writing; and not to walk about in the house in my outdoor dress, nor to do other things of the kind...". --Marcus Aurelius, Meditations I (George...

Motivation and meaning of a "hodge-podge": Duan Chengshi's Youyang zazu.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION With the compilation of the work that he named Youyang zazu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang), the erudite scholar, traveler, and chronicler Duan Chengshi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]...

The Mesopotamian god image, from womb to tomb.
January 1, 2003... From the end of the third millennium B.C. onward, Mesopotamian gods were worshipped in their temples in corporeal manifestations as living, anthropomorphic cult statues. Given the centrality of these statues to the cult, it may be assumed that...

Recent interpretations of ancient Israelite religion.
January 1, 2003... There is, perhaps, no more challenging undertaking than the attempt to describe in detail the religion of ancient Israel. This situation results not only from the complexities inherent in that religion and its attendant cult but also from the...

The old Chinese particles yan [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and an [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].
January 1, 2003... In a brilliant article published in this journal over sixty years ago, George A. Kennedy (1901-1960) laid out, for the first time in English, the sense and usage of the clause-final particle yan [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]. (1) Briefly...

A Grammar of Classical Arabic.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By WOLFDIETRICH FISCHER. 3rd revised edition. Translated from the German by Jonathan Rodgers. New Haven: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002. Pp. xiv + 338. $50. Arabists, Semitists, and general linguists will be grateful to Jonathan Rodgers, the...

Apostasie und Toleranz im Islam: Die Entwicklung zu al-Gazalis Urteil gegen die Philosophie und die Reaktionen der Philosophen.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By FRANK GRIFFEL. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science: Texts and Studies, vol. 40. Leiden: BRILL, 2000. Pp. x + 521. 128 [euro]. The basic concern of this book is with the fate of Peripatetic philosophy in Islam. The author effectively...

A Learned Society in a Period of Transition: the Sunni 'Ulama' of Eleventh-Century Baghdad.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By DAPHNA EPHRAT. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 2000. Pp. xviii + 229. $16.95. This short book (the main text is 153 pages, including fourteen tables) is a study of the scholarly community of eleventh-century Baghdad, "a time...

Scripture and Exegesis in Early Imami Shiism.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By MEIR M. BAR-ASHER, Leiden: BRILL; Jerusalem: THE MAGNES PRESS, THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY, 1999. Pp. xv + 274. $94. This book, originally a Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the Hebrew University in 1991, is a study of four early Shi'i Quran...

Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By JONAH BLANK. Chicago: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2001. Pp. viii + 408. It has taken more than eighty years for a new and original study on the Bohras to appear. Mian Bhai Mulla Abdul-Husain's Gulzare Daudifor the Bohras of India...

Uruk, Architektur IV: Von der Seleukiden- bis zur Sasanidenzeit.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... 2 vols. By ARNO KOSE. Ausgrabungen in Uruk-Warka, Endberichte, vol. 17. Mainz: PHILLIP VON ZABERN, 1998. Pp. xxxii + 661 + 95, plans. DM 380. This massive, impressive, and handsomely produced volume, based on the author's dissertation, is...

External Relations of Early Iron Age Crete, 1100-600 B.C.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... by DONALD W. JONES. Archaeological Institute of America, Monographs New Series, vol. 4. Philadelphia: THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, 2000. Pp. x + 395, illus. $118.95. [Distributed by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, Iowa.] Donald W. Jones...

Principles of the Relation between Local Adverb, Verb and Sentence Particle in Hittite.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By F. A. TJERKSTRA. Cuneiform Monographs, vol. 15. Groningen: STYX PUBLICATIONS, 1999. Pp. xii + 204. HF1 150. Hittite possesses a class of adverbial elements pertaining to location, including anda "in(to)," katta "down(wards)," and ser...

The Standard Babylonian Etana Epic.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The Standard Babylonian Etana Epic. By JAMIE R. NOVOTNY. State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts, vol. 2. Helsinki: THE NEO-ASSYRIAN TEXT CORPUs PROJECT, 2001. Pp. xxvii + 62 (paper). The Standard Babylonian Epic of Anzu. By AMAR ANNUS....

La versione accadica del LUGAL-E: La tecnica babilonese della traduzione dal Sumerico e le sue 'regole'.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By STEFANO SEMINARA. Materiali per il vocabulario sumerico, vol. 8. Rome: DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI ORIENTALI, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA "LA SAPIENZA," 2001. Pp. 595. This substantial monograph is a detailed study of the Akkadian...

Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By ZAINAB BAHRANI. London: ROUTLEDGE, 2001. Pp. xii + 212. $75. Women of Babylon is a sophisticated, stimulating, and provocative study which challenges previous works on Mesopotamian views and attitudes toward women and their artistic...

The Riddle of Resurrection: "Dying and Rising Gods" in the Ancient Near East.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By TRYGGVE N. D. METTINGER. Coniectanea Biblical, Old Testament Series, vol. 50. Stockholm: ALMQVIST & WIKSELL INTERNATIONAL, 2001. Pp. 272. SK 238 (paper). The arrival of a new monograph by Tryggve Mettinger is an occasion for scholarly...

A Dictionary of Tocharian B.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By DOUGLAS Q. ADAMS. Leiden Studies in Indo-European, vol. 10. Amsterdam: RODOPI, 1999. Pp. xxxiv + 830. $190. In the book under review, the author sets out to do two things: he wants to present the vocabulary of Tocharian B as found in the...

Pelerins, lamas et visionnaires: Sources orales et ecrites sur les pelerinages tibetains.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By KATIA BUFFETRILLE. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, vol. 46. Vienna: ARBEITSKREIS FUR TIBETISCHE UND BUDDHISTISCHE STUDIEN, UNIVERSITAT WIEN, 2000. Pp. xii + 377. Snow mountains, lakes, caves, and hidden valleys are...

Tantra in Practice.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by DAVID GORDON WHITE. Princeton Readings in Religions, vol. 8. Princeton: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. Pp. xviii + 640. $75 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Du Ve ou VIe siecle de notre ere (et sans doute depuis un ou deux siecles...

Subodhalankara (Porana-tika, Abhinava-tika).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by PADMANABH S. JAINI. Oxford: PALI TEXT SOCIETY, 2000. Pp. ix + 315. In more than forty years of scholarly work, among his many achievements Padmanabh Jaini has made a series of invaluable editions of Pali texts, almost all...

Collected Papers on Jaina Studies.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By PADMANABH S. JAINI. New Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 2000. Pp. v + 428. With the important exceptions of some work by Maurice Bloomfield and Norman Brown, Padmanabh Jaini is justly regarded as the first Indologist to engage in serious...

Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By PADMANABH S. JAINI. New Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 2001. Pp. v + 557. This collection brings together over four decades of the author's research in Buddhist studies. The volume contains twenty-nine articles, assembled under the...

A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra: British Library Kharosthi Fragment 5B.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra: British Library Kharosthi Fragment 5B. By RICHARD SALOMON, with Andrew Glass. Gandharan Buddhist Texts, vol. 1. Seattle: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS, 2000. Pp. xvii + 234, plates, figs. 42.50...

Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden, vol. 8: Die Katalognummern 1800-1999.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by KLAUS WILLE. Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, vol. X,8. Stuttgart: FRANZ STERNER VERLAG, 2000. Pp. x + 289. This book, the eighth of a projected ten volumes of the Sanskrithandschriften aus den...

Brahmabandhab Upadhyay: the Life and Thought of a Revolutionary.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By JULIUS J. LIPNER. Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. xxiv + 409. $26. Brahmabandhab Upadhyay (born Bhabanicaran Bandyopadhyay, 1861-1907) was a complicated, rebellious, and seemingly contradictory man in a turbulent period of...

Jatarupa's Commentary on the Amarakosa, pts. 1 and 2.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by MAHES RAJ PANT. New Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 2000. Pp. x + 468, x + 512. Rs 1295. Amarasimha's Namalinganusasana, better known as the Amarakosa, is surely the most famous and oldest extant lexicon of the Sanskrit language. The...

The Haunting Fetus: Abortion, Sexuality, and the Spirit World in Taiwan.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By MARC L. MOSKOWITZ Honolulu: UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I PRESS, 2001. Pp. viii + 206. During the past three decades, the legalization of abortion combined with the importation of popular beliefs and practices from Japan have reshaped the ways...

The Columbia History of Chinese Literature.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by VICTOR H. MAIR. New York: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002. Pp. xxiii + 1342. $65. This is a monumental contribution to the field of Chinese literary studies. Aside from expected chapters on the development of prose and poetry,...

Le Sacrifice au Ciel dans la Chine ancienne: Theorie et pratique sous les Han Occidentaux.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By MARIANNE BUJARD. Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient monographe, no. 187. Paris: ECOLE FRANCAISE D'EXTREME-ORIENT, 2000. Pp. 261. E 35.06 (paper). At the beginning of the year 31 B.C. Emperor Cheng [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (r....

Pour une histoire de la Serinde: Le manicheisme parmi les peuples et religions d'Asie Centrale d 'apres les sources primaires.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By XAVIER TREMBLAY. Veroffentlichungen der Kommission fur Iranistik, no. 28. Vienna: OSTERREICHENISCHEN AKADEMIE DER WlSSENSCHAFFEN, 2001. Pp. 337. E 70.20 (paper). This book contains an enormous amount of information. The author's...

The Al-Subayba (Nimrod) Fortress: Towers 11 and 9.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By MOSHE HARTAL, with contributions by Reuven Amitai and Adrian Boas. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports, no. 11. Jerusalem: ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY, 2001. Pp. 130, plates, maps, figs. The large medieval fortress of Qal'at al-Subayba...

Alfarabi, The Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By CHARLES E. BUTTERWORTH. Ithaca: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. xiii + 179. $35. At last, a wider English-speaking audience will gain access to the riches contained in Alfarabi's political philosophy. Not that our appetite has not...

Between Mysticism and Philosophy: Sufi Language of Religious Experience in Judah Ha-Levi's Kuzari.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By DIANA LOBEL. SUNY Series in Jewish Philosophy. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 2000. Pp. x + 277. $23.95. The Kuzari by the Jewish poet and thinker Judah Ha-Levi (d. shortly after 1141), presents a fictional dialogue between...

Kitab al-Luma' fi usul al-fiqh (Le Livre des Rais illuminant les fondements de la comprehension de la Loi): Traite de theorie legale musulmane.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By ERIC CHAUMONT. Studies in Comparative Legal History. Berkeley: ROBBINS COLLECTION PUBLICATIONS, SCHOOL OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, 1999. Pp. xi + 432. This publication is an important contribution to Islamic and...

The Qur'an's Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islam's Scripture.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By DANIEL A. MADIGAN. Princeton: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. XV + 236. $45.00. Islam calls itself a "religion of the Book," and its adherents "people of the Book" (ahl al-kitab), the book being of course the Qur'an. The Qur'an...

Omar Khayyam, the Mathmetician.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By R. RASHED and B. VAHABZADEH. Persian Heritage Series, no. 40. New York: BIBLIOTHECA PERSICA PRESS, 2000. Pp. x + 268. [Distributed by Eisenbrauns, Inc., Winona Lake, Inc.] Although the name 'Umar Khayyam is familiar in the West, mainly...

Some Observations on the Influence of Byzantine Institutions on Ottoman Institutions.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By MEHMED FUAD KOPRULU. Translated by Gary Leiser. Ankara: TURK TARIH KURUMU, 1999. Pp. vii + 195. Gary Leiser has given scholars the first English translation of Koprulu's 1931 monograph-length article on the historiography of the Ottoman...

The Elders of the City: a Study of the Elder-Laws in Deuteronomy.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By TIMOTHY M. WILLIS. Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series, vol. 55. Atlanta: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 2001. Pp. xiii + 353. $45. Timothy Willis's study of biblical elders began as a Ph.D. dissertation at Harvard ten...

Knowing Kings: Knowledge, Power, and Narcissism in the Hebrew Bible.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By STUART LASINE. Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Series, vol. 40. Atlanta: SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE. Pp. xv + 342. $39.95 (paper). This volume contains eleven chapters, each exploring topics related by the author to kingship....

The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By ERIC HORNUNG. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2001. Pp. viii + 229, illus. $29.95. Two divergent images of ancient Egypt and its traditions exist. The more recent of these is based on the academic discipline...

Gotter bewohnten Agypten: Bronzefiguren der Sammlungen "Bible-Orient" der Universitat Freiburg Schweiz.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By MADELElNE PAGE GASSER. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Freiburg: UNIVERSITATSVERLAG, 2001. Pp. xxii + 178, plates. FS 48. This small publication is a part of a series sponsored and undertaken by the Department of Biblical studies at...

Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By JOHN DAY. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, vol. 265. Sheffield: SHEFFIELD ACADEMIC PRESS, 2000. Pp. 282. $73. From the Early Iron Age until at least the post-exilic period, the God of Israel was not the sole...

Sacred Geography: a Tale of Murder and Archaeology in the Holy Land.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By EDWARD FOX. New York: METROPOLITAN BOOKS, 2001. Pp. 254. $25. In 1997, journalist Edward Fox set out to learn who had murdered Albert Glock, professor of archaeology at Birzeit University, five years earlier. In this inviting book he...

Der Tell Halaf und sein Ausgraber Max Freiherr von Oppenheim: Kopf hoch! Mut hoch! und Humor hoch!(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By NADIA CHOLIDIS and LUTZ MARTIN. Mainz: PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 2002. Pp. 72, illus. 20.50 [euro]. Freiherr Max von Oppenheim, who lived until 1946, was the last of the great amateur archaeological explorers of the Near East. Scion of a...

Vorderasiatische Museen: Gestern, Heute, Morgen; Berlin, Paris, London, New York, Eine Standortsbestimmung: Kolloquium aus Anlass des Einhundertjahrigen Bestehens des Vorderasiatischen Museums Berlin am 7. Mai 1999.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by BEATE SALJE. Mainz: PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 2001. Pp. 137, illus. 34.80 [euro]. This handsome volume presents the texts of lectures (in German and English) delivered at a conference held in Berlin in May 1999 to celebrate the...

Mythology and Mythologies: Methodological Approaches to Intercultural Influences.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by R. M. WHITING, Melammu Symposia, vol. 2. Helsinki: THE NEO-ASSYRIAN TEXT CORPUS PROJECT, 2001. Pp. xxv + 280. $75 (paper). The Melammu Project, a sister to the University of Helsinki's Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, seeks to...

Ersetzen und Entsuhnen: Das mittelhethitische Ersatzritual fur den Grosskonig Tuthalija (CTH *448.4) und verwandte Texte.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By PIOTR TARACHA. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, vol. 5. Leiden: BRILL, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 307. $86. In this volume Piotr Taracha presents us with a masterful edition of a purificatory ritual for members of the Hittite royal...

Joel and Obadiah: a Commentary.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By JOHN BARTON. The Old Testament Library. Louisville: WESTMINSTER JOHN KNOX PRESS, 2001. Pp. xxi + 168. Barton's commentary on two of the shorter books of the Old Testament is a welcome addition to the venerated Old Testament Library...

The Royal Palace Institution in the First Millennium BC: Regional Development and Cultural Interchange between East and West.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by INGE NIELSEN. Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, vol. 4. Athens: THE DANISH INSTITUTE AT ATHENS, 2001. Pp. 315, illus. $39.95. [Distributed in North America by David Brown Book Company, Oakville, Conn.] This volume...

Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine: Archaeological, Written, and Comparative Sources.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By JOACHIM BRAUN. Translated by Douglas W. Stott. The Bible in its World. Grand Rapids, Mich.: WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING CO., 2002. Pp. xxxvi + 368, illustrations. $30.00, 21.95 [pounds sterling]. As Braun tells us in his preface, this...

Riches Hidden in Secret Places: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by TZVI ABUSCH. Winona Lake, Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 2002. Pp. xvii + 333. A memorial volume for a scholar such as Thorkild Jacobsen, who published so many original works on so many different topics, is an ambitious and risky...

Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Languages: a Principled Typology.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by BARBARA C. LUST, KASHI WALI, JAMES W. GAIR, and K. V. SUBBARAO. Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, vol. 22. Berlin: MOUTON DE GRUYTER, 2000. Pp. xiv + 904. DM. 396. This work grows out of a decade-long project, carried out...

Le Commentaire de Harihara sur le Malatimadhava de Bhavabhuti.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by FRANCOIS GRIMAL. Publications du Departement d'indologie, vol. 77. Pondichery: INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE PONDICHERY, 1999. Pp. xxxiv + 500. This meticulous critical edition constitutes the first publication of one of the oldest...

Bhadrabahu Brhat-kalpa-niryukti and Sanghadasa Brhat-kalpa-bhasya: Romanized and Metrically Revised Version, Notes from Related Texts and Selective Glossary.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By WILLEM B. BOLLEE. Beitrage zur Sudasienforschung, Sudasien-Institut, Universitat Heidelberg, vol. 181, 1-3. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1998. Pp. xxiv + 411; xxxiv + 421; viii + 315. DM 280. Forty years ago Walther Schubring (who...

Modern Indian Family Law.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By WERNER F. MENSKI. Richmond, Surrey: CURZON PRESS. Pp. xiv + 432. 50 [pounds sterling]. Many readers of our Journal may be less familiar with the name of Dr. Werner F. Menski than they are with that of his predecessor at the School of...

A History of India.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By HERMANN KULKE and DIETMAR ROTHERMUND. 3rd edition. London: ROUTLEDGE, 1998. Pp. x + 395. Geschichte Indiens, by Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund, was published in Germany (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer), in 1982. A thoroughly revised...

Das Posadhavastu: Vorschriften fur die buddhistische Beichtfeier im Vinaya der Mulasarvastivadins.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By HAIYAN HU-VON HINUBER. Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik, vol. 13. Reinbeck: VERLAG FUR ORIENTALISTISCHE FACHPUBLIKATIONEN, 1994. Pp. xix + 552. This volume represents a thoroughly revised and expanded version of Haiyan Hu-von...

The Vajrabhairava Tantras: Tibetan and Mongolian Versions, English Translation and Annotations.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By BULCSU SIKLOS. Buddhica Britannica, Series continua, vol. 7. Tring, U.K.: THE INSTITUTE OF BUDDHIST STUDIES, 1996. Pp. xv + 279. The tantras of Vajrabhairava, one of the Buddhist tantric Yamantaka deities, belong to the "father" (pitr)...

The Coromandel Coast and its Hinterland: Economy, Society and Political System (A.D. 1500-1600).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By S. JEYASEELA STEPHEN. Delhi: MANOHAR PUBLISHERS, 1997. Pp. 269. Rs 500. This path-breaking compilation of data on India's southeastern coast (now in northern Tamil Nadu) during the heyday of Vijayanagar Nayakas and Portuguese settlers...

Burmese Manuscripts, part 4: Catalogue Numbers 736-900.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Compiled by ANNE PETERS, edited by HEINZ BECHERT. Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, vol. 23, 4. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 2000. Pp. xxvii + 274. DM/FS 124. This is the fourth volume of the catalogues of...

The Heart Sutra in Tibetan: a Critical Edition of the Two Recensions Contained in the Kanjur.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By JONATHAN A. SILK. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, vol. 34. Vienna: ARBEITSKREIS FUR TIBETISCHE UND BUDDHISTISCHE STUDIEN, UNIVERSITAT WIEN, 1994. Pp. 205. 21.80 [euro]. According to Silk, seeking the ur-text of a...

Die Erkenntinislehre des Prasangika-Madhyamaka: Nach dem Tshi gsal ston thun gyi tshad ma'i rnam bsad des 'Jam dbyans bzad pa'i rdo rje: Einleitung, Textanalyse, Ubersertzung.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By CHIZUKO YOSHIMIZU. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, vol. 37. Vienna: ARBEITSKREIS FUR TIBETISCHE UND BUDDHISTISCHE STUDIEN, UNIVERSITAT WIEN, 1996. Pp. xxii + 309. 31.98 [euro]. 'Jam-dbyangs-bzhad-pa (1648-1721) was...

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nagarjuna.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By MUSASHI TACHIKAWA. Translated by Rolf W. Giebel. Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 1997. Pp. iv + 213. Rs 200. This is the first study of Buddhism by this formidable scholar to be made available in English, and it is greatly to be welcomed by...

The Concept of Bodhicitta in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By FRANCIS BRASSARD. McGill Studies in the History of Religions. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 2000. Pp. ix + 193. Explanatory and subjective, utilizing neither traditional Buddhist nor modern Western methodologies,...

The Great Indian Education Debate: Documents Relating to the Orientalist-Anglicist Controversy, 1781-1843.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by LYNN ZASTOUPIL and MARTIN MOIR. London Studies on South Asia, vol. 18. London: CURZON, 1999. Pp. xvi + 357. 45 [pounds sterling]. This is a great book. American historian Lynn Zastoupil and long-time keeper and analyst of India...

Imagining India.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By RONALD INDEN. Bloomington: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. Pp. xlii + 298. This is a new printing of Ronald Inden's controversial and intentionally provocative book, originally published by Blackwell in 1990 and reviewed in this journal...

The Divine and Demoniac: Mahisa's Heroic Struggle with Durga.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By CARMEL BERKSON. Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1995. Pp. xv + 318. $29.95. In this unexpected book, photographer and long-time student of Indian art Carmel Berkson ventures into the field of mythology, from a Jungian perspective....

The Resources of History: Tradition, Narration and Nation in South Asia.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by JACKIE ASSAYAG. Etudes thematiques, vol. 8. Paris and Pondicherry: ECOLE FRANCAISE D'EXTREME-ORIENT, INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE PONDICHERY, 1999. Pp. xvii + 374. This volume presents the proceedings of the social sciences half of an...