Author affiliations: Centre for Himalayan Studies, CNRS (France)
Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism, by Mark Rowe, University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2011, xv + 258 pp. ISBN 978 0226 73013 4, US$85.00 (cloth); ISBN 978 0226 73015 8, US $29.00 (paper); ISBN 978 0226 73016 5, US$29.00 (e-book)