The Way of the White Clouds; A Buddhist Pilgrim in Tibet by Anagarika GovindaReview by: E. H. S.Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 87, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1967), p. 211Published by: American Oriental SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/597436 .

Accessed: 17/06/2014 10:43

Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at .http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp

.JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range ofcontent in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new formsof scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

.

American Oriental Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal ofthe American Oriental Society.

http://www.jstor.org

This content downloaded from 62.122.77.28 on Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:43:34 AMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

Brief Notices of Books 211

Orientalists, written by an expert. There are three parts: Nature and History; Structure and Rela- tionships; Significance (Linguistic, Social, Politi- cal) and three appendices the first of which offers sample texts from 16 pidgin and creole languages (based on English, French, Spanish, Russian/Nor- wegian, and Chinook). (H. M. H.)

Indo-Pacific Linguistic Studies. Edited by G. B. MILNER

and EUGENIE J. A. HENDERSON. Part I: Historical Linguistics. Pp. xv + 514. Part II: Descriptive Linguistics. Pp. viii + 571. Amsterdam: NORTH-

HOLLAND PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1965. These volumes, coextensive with Lingua vols. 14 and 15 (both 1965), contain the papers submitted to the Conference on Linguistic Problems of the Indo- Pacific Area held in London in 1965. Coverage ex- tends from Madagascar to Easter Island. A number of papers deal with the Sino-Tibetan of Southeast Asia; Munda and Mon-Khmer are represented, but Dravidian, as such, is not. A most impressive record of what must have been a most impressive gathering of experts. Useful indices.

(H. M. H.)

Cultural Heritage of Kashmir. By SURES CHANDRA

BANERJI. Pp. xii + 180. Calcutta: SANSKRIT

PUSTAK BHANDAR, 1965. Rs. 12/-. Concise, well- written and informative book on the contribution of Kafmir to Sanskrit literature. Deals in par- ticular with Kasmirian authors and poets and their work. Particularly useful is Appendix I, contain- ing a list of minor poets of Ka4mlr and references to them in Subhasitasaxpgrahas. (L. S.)

Pr&ci-Jyoti. Digest of Indological Studies. Half-yearly Publication. Edited by D. N. SHASTRI and BUDDHA PRAKASH. Institute of Indic Studies. KURUK- SHETBA UNIVERSITY. Volumes I, II. 1 and 2, III. 1. This publication, which started to appear in De- cember, 1963, contains in English summaries of articles and studies on indological subjects from 329 Journals which appear all over the world, in different European, Indian and Oriental languages. It also contains reviews of recently published books, titles of doctoral theses on Indian Universities and a list of research institutions. The summaries of articles and studies are presented in fifteen sections (archaeology; arts and crafts; epics and puranas; epigraphy and numismatics; geography; history; India and the world; law, polity and administra- tion; linguistic and grammar; literature and rhe- torics; miscellaneous; philosophy and religion- buddhist and non-buddhist; positive sciences; social and economic institutions; and Vedic studies). This is a most useful publication for all scholars dealing with indological subjects; it gives excellent infor- mation on recently published research works in all indological subjects. (L. S.)

Ideologies of War and Peace in Ancient India. By INDRA. Pp. xi + 192. Vishveshvaranand Indolo- logical Series, No. 7. Hoshiarpur. Rs. 20/-. Study of war and peace in ancient India with discussion of the outstanding features of the two ideologies.

Deals inter alia with the justification of war accord- ing to Indian philosophy, techniques of warfare, aggression versus self-defence, imperialism and colo- nialism, development of diplomacy, militarism versus pacifism, the idea of world-state, India's contribution to world peace. The study is based on Indian scripture, dharma- and arthahastras. It is a useful book which contains often unknown quotations dealing with ideology of war and peace in ancient India. (L. S.)

Key to Elementary Persian Grammar. By L. P. ELWELL- SUTTON. Pp. 19. Cambridge: THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1966. $0.95. Translations of the exercises in the author's valuable student grammar. Also contains addenda and corrigenda to the grammar including a conversion table for the Persian and Christian Calendars. (R. P. G.)

The Ancient World. By WALLACE EVERETT CALDWELL and MARY FRANCIS GYLES. Third edition. Pp. xiv + 654. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, London: HOLT, RINEHART and WINSTON, INC., 1966. $9.95. A second revision of a standard textbook on the early history of the Mediterranean world and the Near East. Chronological tables, bibliographies, index, maps on end papers.

(E.H. S.)

Le monde du sorcier: igypte, Babylone, Hittites, Israel, Islam, Asie centrale, Inde, Nepal, Cambodge, Viet- nam, Japon. Sources orientales VII. Pp. 393. Paris: tDITIONS DU SEUIL, 1966. Separate mono- graphs by specialists on magic, sorcery, shamanism and the like in the regions named in the title.

(E. H. S.)

Gems of Chinese Literature. Edited by HERBERT A. GILEs. In two volumes bound as one. Vol. I- Prose. Vol. II: Verse. Pp. xviii + 430. New York: PARAGON BOOK REPRINT CORP., DOVER PUB- LICATIONS, INC., 1965. Hard cover $12.50; paper- back $2.50. A reprint of the 1923 edition of Giles' well known anthology. (E. H. S.)

The Way of the White Clouds; A Buddhist Pilgrim in Tibet. By LAMA ANAGARIKA GOVINDA (ANAGA- VAJRA KHAMSUM WANGCHJUK). Pp. xiii + 305. HUTCHINSON OF LONDON, 1966. 50/-. Religious life in Tibet as experienced by a German convert to Buddhism. (E. H. S.)

The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi. Translated by Eciaci KIYOOKA. Pp. xv + 407. New York: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1966. The present volume is a re-issue, under the auspices of UNESCO, of a 1960 publication by the Hokuseid6 Press. Pro- fessor Kiyooka's translation of his grandfather's autobiography had already undergone some slight revision since it was first published in 1934, but in 1960 it appeared with further revisions. Al- though it is described on the verso of the title page as a " new translation," there seem to be no major differences in the rendering of Fukuzawa's work. A number of small changes have been made in

This content downloaded from 62.122.77.28 on Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:43:34 AMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions