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Volume 9 - April 1999

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When Silk was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles. By James C. Y. Watt and Anne E. Wardell with an essay by Morris Rossabi. pp. x, 238, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in co-operation with the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997. £40.00.

Writing Against The State: Political Rhetorics in Third and Fourth Century China. By Dominik Declercq. pp. vii, 436, appendix, bibliography, index. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1998.

Uygur Buddhist Literature. By Johan Elverskog. (Silk Road Studies, I) pp. xii, 154. Turnhout, Brepols, 1997.

Narrative strategies. Essays on South Asian literature and film. Edited by Vasudha Dalmia and Theo Damsteegt. pp. viii, 263. Leiden, Research School CNWS, 1998.

Hindu thought and Carmelite mysticism. By Swami Siddheswarananda. Trans, from French by William Buchanan, pp. xiv, 172. Motilal Banarsidass Private Limited, Delhi, 1998. RS. 295.

Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. By Donald S. LopezJr pp. 283. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998. US $25.00.

Edo: Art in Japan 1615–1868. By Robert T. Singer et al., pp. 480Washington [DC], National Gallery of Art, 1998.

Itô Jinsai's Gomô Jigi & the Philosophical Definition of Early Modern Japan. By John A. Tucker, pp. xiv, 282, i illus., Leiden etc. E. J. Brill, 1998.

A new handbook of living religions. Edited by John R. Hinnells. pp. x, 902, figs., maps and tables. Oxford, Blackwell, 1997. £65.00.

The Problem of the Sentience of Plants in Earliest Buddhism. By Lambert Schmithausen. (Studia Philologica – Monograph Series VI). pp. 122. Tokyo, The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1991.

You Can't Fight Tanks With Bayonets: Psychological Warfare Against the Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific. By Allison B. Gilmore. pp. xvi, 244. Lincoln, Nebraska, The University of Nebraska Press. 1998. £47.75.

Collected papers. By John Brough. Edited by Minoru Hara and J. C. Wright, pp. xxii, 533. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1996. £25.00.

Relics, Ritual, and Representation in Buddhism: Rematerializing the Sri Lankan Theravāda Tradition. By Kevin Trainor. (Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions 10). pp. xiv, 223. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997. £35.00.

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Catalogue of the Pāli and Burmese manuscripts in the library of the Wellcome Institute of Medicine. Prepared by William Pruitt and Roger Bischoff. pp. 187, London, The Wellcome Institute, 1998.

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Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sūtra. By Donald S. Lopez, Jr. pp. xii, 264. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1996.

Le Sūtra d'Amida prêché par le Buddha. By Jérôme Ducor. (Schweizer Asiatische Studien Monographien, Band 29/Etudes asiatiques suisses monographies, Volume 29). pp. 215. Bern, Peter Lang, 1998.

Gestures of the Buddha. By K. I. Matics. pp. 295, 181 illus., 4 maps, 99 col. photos., 11 bl. & wh. photos. Bangkok, Chulalongkorn University Press, 1998.

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