Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism. Edited by Marsha Weidner. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu 2001. ix, 234 pp. US$44.00. ISBN 0-8248-2308-7.

Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters. Steven Heine. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford 2001. xiv, 200 pp. £18.99. ISBN 019 513 586 5.

The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism. Bernard Faure. Translated by Phyllis Brooks. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1997. xii, 289 pp. Cloth $49.50, pbk $19.95. ISBN 08047 2865 8/2866 6.