It is a welcome and significant development that these poems have been included and acknowledged as part of world literature...Hallisey's book will ensure that this work receives a broader audience. His illuminating introduction gives an admirably distilled historical, literary and metrical history of the verses, placing them both within traditions of Buddhist practice and in the literary forms to which they are notably akin in subsequent Indian poetry.–Sarah Shaw "Religious Studies Review" (9/1/2021 12:00:00 AM)
