Book Review: Theravada Traditions: Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka by John Clifford Holt; Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism by Richard M. Jaffe; The Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History, 1910–1945 by Hwansoo Ilmee Kim
1. Theravada Traditions: Buddhist Ritual Cultures in Contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka. By John Clifford Holt. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. xi, 391 pp. ISBN: 9780824867805 (cloth). 2. Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism. By Richard M. Jaffe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. xv, 309 pp. ISBN: 9780226391144 (paper). 3. The Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History, 1910–1945. By Hwansoo Ilmee Kim. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. xiv, 344 pp. ISBN: 9780674987197 (cloth).