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In the Forest of the Blind, another excellent and interesting book by Matthew W. King, calls for new interpretative frameworks from those that dominated social and intellectual history in Western academia. King's idea to trace and follow the reception of Faxian's fifth-century classic, Jean-Pierre Abel-Re musa's interpretation, and its reception in Inner Asia is innovative and fascinating. -- Vesna Wallace, author of <i>The Inner Kalacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual</i>

In the Forest of the Blind, another excellent and interesting book by Matthew W. King, calls for new interpretative frameworks from those that dominated social and intellectual history in Western academia. King's idea to trace and follow the reception of Faxian's fifth-century classic, Jean-Pierre Abel-Re musa's interpretation, and its reception in Inner Asia is innovative and fascinating. -- Vesna Wallace, author of <i>The Inner Kalacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual</i> This beautifully written 'travelogue' of Faxian's Record takes us on the text's journeys from Chang'an to Paris, thence from the French into Buriyati Mongol and into the Tibetan lands. Matthew King, who is as learned a polyglot as the writers he discusses, discloses the different cosmic pasts 'made anew from a history.' -- Prasenjit Duara, author of <i>The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future</i>

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Matthew W. King is associate professor in transnational Buddhism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire (Columbia, 2019), which won the 2020 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies from the American Academy of Religion.

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