Sanskritic civilization · Tantric studies · Newar & Nusantaran Buddhism
Currently I have no plans to review Christian Wedemeyer’s Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism (2012), but that’s not to say that it shouldn’t be reviewed. Just a couple of months after its release, it is now on the shelves of over 80 libraries. Moreover, Dr. Wedemeyer promises to publish a minimum of three more volumes on the Śrīsamāja. Hopefully someone — who isn’t me — will soon get around to a review.
Queering Dharmakīrti:
Amy K. Donahue. ‘Exclusion, violence, and reference: A poststructuralist reading of the classical Nyāya and Buddhist pramāṇa debates’. PhD diss., University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 2011. 172 pp. UMI Number: 3485454.
The dissertation draws on the work of contemporary poststructuralist queer, feminist, and postcolonial theorists to set the ground for a poststructuralist reading of the classical Nyāya and Buddhist Pramāna debates.