Three Mountains and Seven Rivers: Prof. Musashi Tachikawa's Felicitation Volume.

• Author: Silk, Jonathan
• Position: Book review

Three Mountains and Seven Rivers: Prof. Musashi Tachikawa's Felicitation Volume. Edited by SHOUN HINO and TOSHIRO WADA. Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 2004. Pp. x + 903. Rs. 1800.

It is the rare felicitation volume that does justice to its honoree when the latter is a scholar of profound ability and broad range; such works sometimes, in fact, seem more embarrassing than honorific. The present volume is a remarkable exception, both in the scholar it felicitates and in the quality and breadth of its contributions.

Musashi Tachikawa's scholarly contributions range over Tibetan Buddhism in virtually all its aspects, from doctrine to iconography (with a special focus on the mandala), Indian philosophy in various dimensions, Madhyamaka (and to a lesser extent other Buddhist) philosophy, Japanese Buddhism, contemporary Indian ritual, and on and on. The fifty-six contributions in this book of over nine hundred pages are divided by the editors into Ancient Geography (1 paper), Buddhism (11), Madhyamika (5), Iconography (4), Jainism (1), Logic (8), Poetics (1), Vedic Themes (3), Social Practices (2), Tibetan Themes (4), Vedanta and Mimamsa (7), Samkhya and Yoga (3), and Tantrism...