Volume 117 - Issue 1 - January 1985
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Reviews of Books
The Konds: human sacrifice and religious change. By Barbara M. Boal. pp. xiv, 294, 33 illustrations, 5 Maps. Warminster, Wilts. Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1982. £16.00.
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Stones of empire: the buildings of the Raj. By Jan Morris, photographs and captions by Simon Winchester, pp. vi, 234 pp. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1983. £15.00
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The Buddhist philosophy of thought. By Alexander Piatigorsky. pp. xii, 227. London and Dublin, Curzon Press. Totowa, N.J., Barnes and Noble Books, 1984. £9.50
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The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka: an anthropological and historical study. By Michael Carrithers. pp. xii, 306, 14 plates. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1983. £17.00
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Ladakh: crossroads of high asia. By Janet Rizvi. pp. xii, 224, 32 plates, map (on endpapers). Delhi etc., Oxford Universisty Press, 1983. Rs. 140. £15.00
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Aspect of cultural history of Sikkim: studies in coinage. By P. K. Bhattacharyya. pp. xiv, 86 + errata slip, 14 plates, map (on endpapers). Calcutta and New Delhi, K. P. Bagchi & Co., 1984. Rs.90
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Die buddhistische Briefliteratur Indiens. By Siglinde Dietz. pp. 509. Asiatische Forschungen, vol. 84. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1984.
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Collected works of Alexander Csoma de Körös. 4 Vols. Edited by J. Terjék. Tibetan-English Dictionary, pp. lx, 351. front. £20.50. - A grammar of the Tibetan language. pp. xvi, 204 + syllabic scheme and Tibetan alphabet, pp. 40. Biographical booklet enclosed, pp. xxxii. £14.50. - Tibetan studies: being a reprint of the articles contributed to the Journal of The Asiatic Society of Bengal and Asiatic Researches, pp. ix, 459. £26.50. - Sanskrit-Tibetan-English vocabulary: being an edition and translation of the Mahāvyutpatti. pp. xxxvii, 390. £22.75. - Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1984. All 4 Vols., £72.00.
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Contributions to the development of Tibetan Buddhist epistemology: from the eleventh to the thirteenth century. By Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp. (Alt- und Neu- Indische Studien herausgegeben vom Seminar für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens an der Universität Hamburg, 26.) pp. ix, 330. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1983. DM 42.
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Prince Jiṅ-Gim's textbook of Tibetan Buddhism: the Śes-bya rab-gsal (Jñeya-prakāśa) by 'Phags-pa Blo-gros rgyal-mtshan dPal-bzaṅ-po of the Sa-skya-pa. Translated and annotated by Constance Hoog. (Nisaba Religious Texts Translation Series Vol. 13). pp. x, 126. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1983, Guilders 48.
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Tibetan thangka painting, methods and materials. By David P. Jackson and Janice A. Jackson, pp. 182, 185 illustrations. London, Serindia Publications, 1984. £18.50.
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Burmese administrative cycles: anarchy and conquest, c. 1580–1760. By Victor B. Lieberman. pp. xvii, 338, 4 maps. Princeton N.J., Princeton University Press, 1984. £37.00.
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Melaka – the transformation of a Malay capital c. 1400–1980. Edited by Kernial Singh Sandhu and Paul Wheatley. 2 vols.: pp. xxix, 816, front., 32 plates; pp. xxix, 784, front., 20 plates. Kuala Lumpur etc., Oxford University Press for Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1983. £120.
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Descriptive catalogue of the Javanese manuscripts and printed books in the main libraries of Surakarta and Yogyakarta. By Nicholas Girardet. pp. xix, 1128. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1983. DM 190.
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The three worlds of Bali. By J. Stephen Lansing. (Praeger Special Studies. Praeger Scientific), pp. xv, 171, map (on endpapers); illustrations and figures in text. New York, Praeger, 1983.
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Science and civilisation in china. By Joseph Needham. Vol. 6. Biology and Biological Technology. Part II: Agriculture. By Francesca Bray. pp. xxviii, 724, 271 illustrations. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1984. £50.00.
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Concepts of health, disease and vitality in traditional Chinese society: a psychological interpretation. By N. H. Van Straten. Based on the research materials of Georg Koeppen. (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, Band 34) pp. vii, 193. Franz Verlag GMBH, Wiesbaden, 1983. DM 46.
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The art of rulership: a study in ancient Chinese political thought. By Roger T. Ames. pp. xvii, 277. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1983. US.$25.00.
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Philosophy and argumentation in third-century China: the essays of Hsi K'ang. Translated by Robert G. Henricks. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations), pp. x, 214. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1983. £25.80.
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Goddesses, ghosts and demons: the collected poems of Li He (790–816). Translated with an introduction by J. D. Frodsham. (Poetica 15.) pp. lix, 290. London, Anvil Press Poetry Ltd., 1983. £10.00 (Revised edition of The Poems of Li Ho (791–817). Translated by J. D. Frodsham. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1970).
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