This is the fifth issue of the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, edited by Kurtis Schaeffer and released in December, 2009. This issues focuses on Tibetan canonical literature. (Bill McGrath 2010-05-13)
<b>Articles:</b> "Contributions to the Development and Classification of <i>Abhisamayālaṃkāra</i> Literature in Tibet from the Ninth to Fourteenth Century" / James B. Apple -- "On the Very Idea of a Tantric Canon: Myth, Politics, and the Formation of the Bka' 'gyur" / David B. Gray -- "Recovering a Lost Literary Heritage Preliminary Research on the Wanli Bka' 'gyur from Berlin" / Agnieszka Helman-Ważny -- "Two Bka' 'gyur Works in Mahāmudrā Canons: The <i>Ārya-ātajñāna-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra</i> and the <i>Anāvila-tantra-rāja</i>" / Roger R. Jackson -- "Classicism in Commentarial Writing: Exegetical Parallels in the Indian <i>Mūlamadhyamakakārikā</i> Commentaries" / Ulrich Timme Kragh -- "Canonical Literature in Western Tibet and the Structural Analysis of Canonical Collections" / Bruno Lainé -- "The Role of the <i>Bodhicittavivaraṇa</i> in the Mahāmudrā Tradition of the Dwags po bka' brgyud" / Klaus-Dieter Mathes -- "A Noble Noose of Methods, the Lotus Garland Synopsis: Methodological Issues in the Study of a Mahāyoga Text from Dunhuang" / Cathy Cantwell and Robert Mayer -- "Notes on the Co ne Bka' 'gyur and Bstan 'gyur in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C." / Susan Meinheit -- "Guṇaprabha's <i>Vinayasūtra</i> Corpus: Texts and Contexts" / Paul K. Nietupski -- "On the Vicissitudes of Subhūticandra's <i>Kāmadhenu</i> Commentary on the <i>Amarakoṣa</i> in Tibet" / Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp -- "Pseudepigrapha in the Tibetan Buddhist 'Canonical Collections': The Case of the <i>Caryāmelāpakapradīpa</i> Commentary Attributed to Śākyamitra" / Christian K. Wedemeyer<b>Book Reviews:</b> "Akester's Rejoinder to Professor Goldstein's Response to 'Review of <i>A History of Modern Tibet</i>, Volume 2: <i>The Calm before the Storm, 1951-55</i>, by Melvyn C. Goldstein'" / Matthew Akester -- "Goldstein's Response to M. Akester's Review of <i>A History of Modern Tibet</i>, Volume 2: <i>The Calm before the Storm, 1951-55</i>, by Melvyn C. Goldstein" / Melvyn Goldstein -- "Review of <i>Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet</i>, by Trent Pomplun" / Michael Sweet -- "Review of <i>The Culture of the Book in Tibet</i>, by Kurtis R. Schaeffer" / Hildegard Diemberger -- "Review of <i>Tibetan Ritual</i>, edited by José Ignacio Cabezón" / Christopher Bell