Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Volume Four 1997 (ISSN: 1076-9005) CURRENT TABLE OF CONTENTS Article: The Early Buddhist Tradition and Ecological Ethics by Lambert Schmithausen. 1-74 filename: schm1.pdf Review: The Selfless Mind: Personality, Consciousness and Nirvaa.na in Early Buddhism. By Peter Harvey. London: Curzon Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 293. .NSBN 0-7007-0337-3 (paperback), 14.99 pounds; ISBN 0-7007-0338-1 (cloth). 73-78 Reviewed by Rupert Gethin filename: gethin1.pdf Review: A Time to Chant: The Soka Gakkai Buddhists in Britain. By Bryan Wilson and Karel Dobbelaere. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 267. ISBN 0-1982-7915-9 (cloth), $39.95. 79-83 Reviewed by Brian Bocking filename: bocking1.pdf Review: Hoojooki: Visions of a Torn World by Kamo-no-Choomei. Trans. Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins, with illustrations by Michael Hofmann. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 1996. Pp. 93. ISBN 1-8806-5622-1 (paperback), $9.95 84-88 Reviewed by David L. Gardiner filename: gardiner1.pdf Review: Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism by Miranda Shaw.Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 291. ISBN 0-691-01090-0, $14.95 (paperback). 89-93 Reviewed by Roy W. Perrett filename: perrett1.html Review: Extending the Hand of Fellowship: The Relations of the Western Buddhist Order to the Rest of the World. By Sangharakshita. Windhorse Publications, 1996. Pp. 48 ISBN 0-904766-62-4, $5.95. 94-97 Reviewed by Sandra Bell filename: bell1.pdf Research Article: The General and the Particular in Theravaada Ethics: A Response to Charles Hallisey by Kevin Schilbrack. 98-111 filename: schil1.pdf Article: Masao Abe, Zen Buddhism, and Social Ethics by Daniel Palmer. 112-137 filename: palmer1.pdf Article: Teleologized "virtue" or mere religious "character?" A critique of Buddhist Ethics from the Shin Buddhist point of view by Stephen J. Lewis and Galen Amstutz. 138-159 filename: lewis1.pdf Review: Women Under the Bo Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka. By Tessa Bartholomeusz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xx, 284. ISBN 0-5214-6129-4 (cloth), 59.95 pounds. 160-163 Reviewed by Kate Blackstone filename: black1.pdf Review: Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism Under Colonialism. Ed. Donald. S. Lopez , Jr. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. 298. ISBN 0-2264-9309-1 (paperback), $16.95. 164-169 Reviewed by Ian Harris. filename: harris1.pdf Review: Forschungsprojekt "Buddhistischer Modernismus" Forschungsberichte. Ed. Detlef Kantowsky. Universitaet Konstanz, Arbeitsbereich "Entwicklungslaender und interkultureller Vergleich," Konstanz 1990-1996 (cont.). Forschungsprojekt "Buddhistischer Modernismus": Forschungsberichte. Ed. Detlef Kantowsky. Universitaet Konstanz, Arbeitsbereich "Entwicklungslaender und interkultureller Vergleich," Konstanz 1990-1996 (cont.). 170-174 Reviewed by Oliver Freiberger. filename: freib1.pdf Review: Walking on Lotus Flowers, Buddhist Women Living, Loving and Meditating. By Martine Batchelor. London and San Francisco: Thorsons, HarperCollins, 1996. Pp. xiv, 205. ISBN 0-7225-3231-8, 9.99 pounds, $18.00. 175-177 Reviewed by Sylvia Wetzel. filename: wetzel1.pdf Review: Two Recent Works on Japanese Buddhism and Comparative Philosophical Studies: 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; and 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. 178-183 Reviewed by Steven Heine. filename: heine1.pdf Response: A Response To Kevin Schilbrack by Charles Hallisey. 184-188 filename: hall1.pdf Review: The Evolving Mind: Buddhism, Biology, and Consciousness. By Robin Cooper. Birmingham: Windhorse, 1996. Pp. 266. ISBN 0-904-76674-8 (paperback), $21.95. 189-193 Reviewed by Charles B. Jones. filename: jones1.pdf Article: The Dharma Has Come West: A Survey of Recent Studies and Sources by Martin Baumann. 194-211 filename: baum2.pdf Review: Buddhism into the Year 2000. International Conference Proceedings. Bangkok and Los Angeles: The Dhammakaya Foundation, 1994. Pp. 345. ISBN 974-89209-3-3 (cloth), 24.95 pounds, $39.95. 212-215 Reviewed by Martin Baumann. filename: baum1.pdf Article: A Bibliography on Sinhala Buddhism by Mahinda Deegalle. 216-256 filename: deeg1.pdf Review: Ethical Issues in Six Religious Traditions. Ed. Peggy Morton and Clive Lawton. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996. Pp. 320. ISBN 0-7486-0709-9, 14.95 pounds; (paperback), $24.50. 256-259 Reviewed by Martin Baumann. filename: baum3.pdf Review: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. A New Translation of the Majjhima Nikaaya. Translated from the Pali. Original Translation by Bhikkhu ~Naa.namoli. Translation edited and revised by Bhikkhu Bodhi. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995. Pp. 1412. ISBN 0-8617-1072-X, (cloth), $75.00. 260-280 Reviewed by L.S.Cousins. filename: cous1.pdf Review: Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Suutra. By Donald S Lopez, Jr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 264. Hardcover. 281-287 Reviewed by Jay Garfield. filename: garf1.pdf Review: Spirited Women: Gender, Religion, & Cultural Identity in the Nepal Himalaya. By Joanne C. Watkins. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Pp. xii, 347. ISBN 0-231-10215-1 (paper), $ 18.50 288-291 Reviewed by Karen C. Lang. filename: lang1.pdf Review: How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings. By Richard F. Gombrich. London & Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Athlone, 1996 292-296 Reviewed by Bhikkhu Bodhi. filname: bodhi1.html Review: Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature (Women in Culture and Society Series). By Liz Wilson. University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. 258. ISBN 0-2269-0054-1, (paperback), $19.95. 297-300 Reviewed by Tessa Bartholomeusz. filename: bart1.pdf Review: Identity and Experience. The Constitution of the Human Being According to Early Buddhism. By Sue Hamilton. London: Luzac Oriental, 1996. Pp.xxxi, 218. ISBN 1-898942-10-2, £40. 301-305 Reviewed by Damien Keown. filename: keow1.pdf Review: Virtuosity, Charisma, and the Social Order: A Comparative Sociological Study of Monasticism in Theravaada Buddhism and Medieval Catholicism. By Ilana Freidrich Silber. Cambridge: University Press, 1995. pp. x + 250. ISBN 0-521-41397-4, $54.95 306-309 Reviewed by Mavis Fenn. filename: fenn1.pdf Review: Reflections on The Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in Its Second Decade: Issues in Theory and Practice by Charles B. Jones. 310-320 filename: jones2.pdf Review: Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Life That Matters. By Bernard Glassman and Rick Fields. New York: Bell Tower, 1996. Pp. ix, 171. ISBN 0-517-70377-7 (cloth), $20.00. 321-324 Reviewed by Duncan Ryuuken Williams. filename: will1.pdf Review: Le Guide du Zen. By Eric Rommeluere. Paris: Editions Le Livre de Poche, Collection les Guides Selene, 1997. Pp. 315. ISBN: 2-253-17003-8, FF 79. 325-328 Reviewed by Alioune Kone-el-adji. filename: ali1.pdf Review: The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott. By Stephen Prothero. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. 242. ISBN 0-253-33014-9 (cloth), $35.00. 329-335 Reviewed by Gananath Obeyesekere. filename: obey1.pdf