A highly accurate and encyclopedic compendium of the history of western encounters with eastern religious traditions. One finds herein not just the names of innumerable significant individuals, but a review of their views and their significance. It will long remain a standard reference work. - Rama Kumaraswamy, author of The Destruction of the Christian Tradition and The Invocation of the Name of Jesus: As Practiced in the Western Church Journey East is one of the very few intellectual histories of our age, if we take the intellect to be more than the mind or reason. Journey East is an account of the actual philosophers of the recent past rather than of the poseurs and pretenders to that title who in the same breath call themselves empiricists or post-modern. - Roger Sworder, La Trobe University, Bendigo, author of Mining, Metallurgy, and the Meaning of Life and Homer on Immortality: The Journey of Odysseus as a Path to Perfection Journey East is a very comprehensive exposition of the interaction and influence between West and East from Antiquity to the present day: a very valuable book for the reader who desires to be informed of these encounters from the perspective of the Sophita Perennis, and a very useful and precious ?textbook? for the teacher who needs to have an historical as well as a logical way of organizing so many complex forms of 'Orientalism'. -Jean-Pierre Lafouge, Marquette University
