Those of us who carry our Buddha selves and our psychoanalytic selves in separate compartments have been given a special treat in Mark Epstein's recent book. It offers both the possibility of synthesis and enjoyable reading. “For Buddhism to be understood by our culture, it must be reinterpreted in the psychological language of our time” (p. 3). Mark Epstein states this as his aim, and for him this language is psychoanalytic. This book presents many of his articles, which have been published between the 1980s and the present. He was a practicing Buddhist before he studied psychoanalysis, and he deftly moves between certain Buddhist concepts and their counterparts in psychoanalytic theory. Epstein writes in the same clear and contemplative style in which he wrote his earlier book, Thoughts without a Thinker. The titles of both