Ritual and Symbol: Collected Essays on Lamaism and Chinese Symbolism Book

The writers and material collected in this anthology should make it a 5-star book, except that almost all of it consists of excerpts from longer works rather than well-chosen stories. Book extracts are a waste of everybody's time, and the fact that each piece is not identified as being such in the blurb, on the contents page, in the introduction or even at the start of each piece is dishonest. You only learn what is an extract at the end of each selection. A wasted opportunity.