Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Third Series, Number 13, Fall 2011. Special Section: Recent Research on Esoteric Buddhism

2011. Soft cover. Very Good. 286 pp, paper wraps. Clean with light edgewear. Contents include: Forest as Challenge, Forest as Healer: Reinterpretations and Hubridity within the Forest Tradition of Thailand by Brooke Schedneck; Awakening the Faith in the Pure Land Section of the Qixinlun by Christopher Callahan; Monastic Lineages and Ritual Participation: A Proposed Revision of Kuroda Toshio's Kenmitsu Taisei by Mikael Bauer; Selected Materials for the Study of the Life of the Buddha Sakyamuni by Charles Willemen; Special Section - Recent Research on Esoteric Buddhism: The Purification of Heruka: Reflections on Identity Formation in Late Indian Buddhism by Daniel A. Gray; A Brief Exploration of Late Indian Buddhist Exegeses of the "Mantrayana" and "Mantranaya" by Vesna A. Wallace; On the Subject of Abhiseka by Charles D. Orzech; The Life of the Tang Court Monk Vajrabodhi as Chronicled by Lu Xiang: South Indian and Sri Lankan Antecedents to the Arrival of the Buddhist Vajrayana in Eighth-Century Java and China by Jeffrey Sundberg and Rolf Giebel; Ritual Studies in the Longue Duree: Comparing Shingon and Saiva Siddanta Homas by Richard K. Payne; BOOK REVIEWS: Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen - Steven Doll Yongming Yanshou's Conception of Chan in the Zongjing Lu by Albert Welter - Courtney Bruntz Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture by Jane Naomi Iwamura - Kendall Marchman.