The Ritual History of a Tibetan Buddhist Protector Deity
A review of Nechung: The Ritual History and Institutionalization of a Tibetan Buddhist Protector Deity, by Christopher Paul Bell. In…
An Environmental and Political History of Coca-Cola
A Review of Citizen Coke: An Environmental and Political History of the Coca-Cola Company, by Bartow Elmore Historian Bartow Elmore’s…
Monastic Pedagogy in Tibetan Buddhism 15-18c
A review of Monastic Pedagogy on Emptiness in the Geluk Sect of Tibetan Buddhism: Intellectual History and Analysis of Topics…
Vegetarianism in Tibet
A review of Food of Sinful Demons: A History of Vegetarianism in Tibet, by Geoffrey Francis Barstow Geoffrey Barstow’s dissertation…
Mega Monasteries in Tibet
A review of The Mother of All Monasteries: Gönlung Jampa Ling and the Rise of Mega Monasteries in Northeastern Tibet,…
Islamic Bioethics & Assisted Reproducton in Iran
A review of Beyond Clerics and Clinics: Islamic Bioethics and Assisted Reproductive Technology in Iran, by Robert M. Tappan. Too…
Delhi Slum Life & Self-Cultivation
A review of “I Have My Own Two Hands”: Re-Interpreting the Risks of Slum Life in Delhi and Cultivating the…
US Foreign Policy toward Iran 1990-2003
A review of The Iran Narrative: Ideas, Discourse, and Domestic Politics in the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy toward Iran,…
Infertility & Children in North India
A review of Aulad: Infertility and the Meanings of Children in North India, by Holly Donahue Singh. Aulad: Infertility and…
Life & Work of Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol (1781-1851)
A review of Dissipating Boundaries: The Life, Song-Poems, and Non-Sectarian Paradigm of Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol (1781-1851), by Rachel Hua-Wei Pang.…