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Myriad Worlds: Buddhist Cosmology in Abhidharma, Kalacakra and Dzog-chen. By Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye. Translated and edited by the International Translation Committee founded by the V. V. Kalu Rinpoche. Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1995. Pp. 301.

It is well known that the Buddhist tradition universally rejects the notion of a creator-god. Yet this fact alone does not imply that Buddhists have been uninterested in cosmology. On the contrary, the student of Buddhism ...