Karma Leskshe Tsomo (editor) Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019 (ISBN 978-1-4384-7256-0) Reviewed by Ashby Butnor, 2019 Ashby Butnor is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. Her philosophical work and interests focus on the embodied dimensions of moral perception and action through engagement with a plurality of traditions, including Zen Buddhist philosophy, phenomenology, and feminist theory. Her co-edited volume, Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue: Liberating Traditions (Columbia University Press, 2014), introduces the field of feminist comparative philosophy and the growing dialogue between contemporary feminist theory and the classical texts and philosophical traditions of Asia. Quote: "Tsomo finds Buddhist philosophy to be amenable to women who are struggling for liberation. She highlights some central Buddhist concepts--such as anatman (no-self) and sunyata (emptiness)--that can provide a philosophical underpinning for a Buddhist feminism." With Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities, Karma Leskshe Tsomo has assembled a collection of essays that illustrates the variety of Buddhist women’s lives and communities in relation to both gender injustice and Buddhism itself. Tsomo is careful to explain that this collection includes very specific local and contextual examples of Buddhist women’s communities. Although she explicitly rejects the claim that feminism is a Western enterprise, she is sympathetic to those who find feminism to be "tiresomely analytical and largely irrelevant to women struggling for survival" (2). Tsomo’s task then is to demonstrate how Buddhist women, both historically and currently, have forged their own feminist paths "on their own terms" within the confines of their patriarchal religion and societies.