The Epic of the Buddha: His Life and Teachings. By Chittadhar Hṛdaya. Translated by Todd T. Lewis and Subarna Man Tuladhar. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2019. 448 pages. $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781611806199. The Epic of the Buddha: His Life and Teachings is the third (and final) incarnation of Todd T. Lewis and Subarna Man Tuladhar’s translation of Chittadhar Hṛdaya’s epic…
Author: Samuel M. Grimes
REVIEW: Conjuring the Buddha: Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism, by Jacob P. Dalton
Conjuring the Buddha: Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism. By Jacob P. Dalton. Columbia University Press, 2023. 334 pages. $35.00 (paperback). ISBN 9780231205832. In Conjuring the Buddha: Ritual Manuals in Early Tantric Buddhism, Jacob P. Dalton employs both material and textual archaeologies to illustrate a tantric Buddhist tradition in flux at various transitional points in its development. He does this…