By Alexander Gardner

The following books are reviewed by Alexander Gardner in the Winter 2008 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly, available on newsstands now.

Treasures from Juniper Ridge Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang (Ranjung Yeshe, 2008)

Eminent Nuns; Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China by Beata Grant (University of Hawaii, 2008)

Miniatures of a Zen Master by Robert Aitken (Counterpoint, 2008)

Middle Land Middle Way: A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Buddha’s India by Ven. Shravasti Dhammika (BPS, 2008)

Bodh Gaya by Frederick M. Asher (Oxford, 2008)

Mind and Life edited by Pier Luigi Luisi (Columbia, 2008)

The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto by Norman Waddell (Counterpoint, 2008)

The Book of Kadam (Wisdom Publications, 2008)

Personal Salvation and Filial Piety by Wilt Idema (University of Hawaii, 2008)

ALEXANDER GARDNER is the Associate Director of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation in New York. He has a Ph.D in Buddhist Studies from the University of Michigan.