Book Reviews

[Updated: 2026-01-26+09:00]

• “Review of Making Sense of Mind Only: Why Yogācāra Buddhism Matters, by William S. Waldron”The Eastern Buddhist, vol. 5(1/2), 2026, 187-191.
• “Review of Buddhist Apologetics in East Asia: Countering the Neo-Confucian Critiques in the Hufa lun and the Yusŏk chirŭi non, by Uri Kaplan”Journal of Korean Religions, vol. 11(2), 2020, 173-177.
• “Xiong Shili and the New Treatise: A review discussion of Xiong Shili, New Treatise on the Uniqueness of Consciousness, an annotated translation by John Makeham.”SophiaMay, 2017 (p.1–4)
• One Korean's Approach to Buddhism: The Mom/Momjit Paradigm , by Sung Bae Park. International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture, Vol. 13, September 2009 (p. 109–131)
• Cultivating Original Enlightenment: Wonhyo's Exposition of the Vajrasamādhi-Sūtra , by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture, Vol. 10, February 2008 (p. 179–186)
• Hajimete no yuishiki, by TAGAWA Shun'ei. Reviewed for H-Net (January 2005) [Read Review]
• Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogācāra Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih lun , by Dan Lusthaus. Philosophy East and West, vol. 55, no. 1; p. 135–139.
• Three New Buddhist Reference Works: A Concise Encyclopedia of Buddhism (John Powers); The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism; Dictionary of Buddhism (Damien Keown). Reviewed for H-Net (July 2003) [Read Review]
• Polishing the Diamond, Enlightening the Mind: Reflections of a Korean Buddhist Master, by Jae Woong Kim. Reviewed for H-Net (May 2003) [Read Review]
• The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, by Lawrence Lessig. (Originally written for the now-defunct H-MMedia list, but finally, published only here). [Read Review]
• Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism, by Robert Sharf. Reviewed for H-Net (May 2002). [Read Review]
• Reinventing the Wheel, by Peter Hershock. Reviewed for Religious Studies Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, (April 2001), page 117–120. [Read Review]