Book by Williamson; Scott C.
#2539745 in Books 2010-11-09 2010-11-09Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x 1.20 x 6.00l; 1.42 #File Name: 086171590X464 pagesShips from Vermont
Review
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Worthwhile; but mixed feelings about itBy A readerThe Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism series is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Buddhism; and Ruegg is one of the most eminent scholars in the field; so when I saw that he had a volume in the series forthcoming I was very excited. I was envisioning a sort of masterful capstone work on Madhyamaka. Alas; this is not it - what we have here are reprints of some of his essays from various scholarly journals.Don't get me wrong; a lot of people will find this helpful and the material itself is valuable. But if you; like me; have access to JSTOR; there is very little value added with this volume. I already had nearly all of the articles herein. Furthermore; there is only a brief two or three page preface; and no introduction! I would have expected at least a fifteen page introduction - a little new material to justify the cost. In addition; although lists the language as English; you also may want to note that no less than a fifth of the essays are in French. It's hard to understand how they justify a $40 list price for a paperback with no new material; and which makes no effort to make the old material accessible to the general English-reading audience to which it is marketed.That said; I consider my purchase a charitable donation to Wisdom Publications; which is; after all; a nonprofit that I am happy to support. In general the Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism series is amazing; so the publisher may be forgiven for falling short after having set the bar so high.
