Oakland. New Harbinger Purblications. 2009. Black and white illustrations, x + 251pp, references, upper cover edge little sunned, good paperback copy. "By combining breakthroughs in neuroscience with insights from thousands of years of mindfulness practice, you too can use your mind to shape your brain for greater happiness, love, and..... More
Yakushiji. 主婦の友社. 1976. Colour illustrations, 22pp, wrappers light wear, a good thin copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 160075. More
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人民出版社.[Ren min chu ban she]. 1974. 1st edition, 1st Zhejiang printing. 92pp, covers little rubbed with occasional soiling, corners little creased, a prior owner's signature upper cover, generally good in paperback. Text in Chinese. 18.3 x 13cm. This book is designed to follow Mao initiated political campaign "Criticise Lin, Criticise..... More
Chicago. The University of Chicago Press, 2002. Maps, plans, black and white photographic illustrations, xxv + 373pp, index, bibliography, notes, little extremities wear to dustjacket, a very good hardback copy, square quarto. "This text explores the large body of sculpture, paintings and other religious imagery produced for China's common classes..... More
Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1964. x + 311pp, bibliography, index, gilt lettering spine, 4.5cm tear cloth upper joint, name of previous owner and date front free endpaper, little light damp staining margins last leaves, stain lower cover, contents sound and clean, overall a good copy. "Based essentially on primary sources..... More
New York. Sterling Publishing. 2002. Reprint. Map, black and white illustrations, 320pp, glossary, index. Very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 174448. More
New York. Vantage Press. 1982. First Edition. xvii + 374pp, index, bibliography, glossary, notes, appendix, spine lightly sunned, dustjacket little browned with small tears but overall still a very good hardback copy. "Here is a scholarly, authoritati8ve study of Islam's contribution to political and administrative theory and practice - it..... More
Jerusalem. Typis PP. Franciscanorum. 1956. 116pp, Pontificium Athenaeum Antonianum, Facultas Philosphica - Theses ad Lauream N. 32, pages evenly browned throughout, wrappers unevenly browned, small stain upper cover, some tears and loss to spine, otherwise a good clean copy. Text in Latin. When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
London. Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., 1996. xii + 287pp, bibliography, corners of a few leaves creased, light shelf wear, good paperback copy. "This is a major work of Islamic mysticism by the great thirteenth-century Persian poet, Farid al-Din Attar. Translated by A J Arberry, Attar's work and thought is..... More
United States. Numata Center for Buddhist Translation & Research. 1992. xii + 147pp, index, selected bibliography, glossary, very good hardback copy. "The Summary of the Great Vehicle is perhaps the most representative text of the Yogacara school of Mahayana Buddhism. It presents the classic argument for the basic Yogacara themes..... More
USA: Columbia University Press. 1974. ix + 143pp, chronological chart, glossary, index, foxing to dustjacket, minor wear and marking, a good copy. "Following an historical discussion of Hinduism as a religious and philosophical system and as a popular cult, Professor Ashby surveys its remarkable diversification in the nineteenth and twentieth..... More
Lahore. Sh. Muhammad Ashraf. 1965. Reprint. viii + 64pp, a good copy in little worn and browned paperback, 12mo. When referring to this item please quote stockid 154513. More
Madras. Ganesh & Co., 1971. Fifth Edition. Portrait frontispiece, xviv + 384pp, a few cellotape marks and browning endpapers and dustjacket blurb, dustjacket worn with few chips. A good hardback in dustjacket. "The Mahanirvana Tantra is in the form of a dialogue on Mount Kailas between Lord Shiva and his..... More
Canberra. Australian National University. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. 1980. 12pp, original wrappers little marked and worn, a good copy otherwise. 21 x 30cm. Working paper (Australian National University. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre), no. 21. When referring to this item please quote stockid 160408. More
London. Kegan Paul. 1987. bibliography, index, 155 pp. A good copy in paperback. "This is the first in-depth study of the religious thought of Mu'ammar al Qadhdhafi and its place in his political, social and economic theories. The work is based on sources inaccessible except in the original Arabic. While..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1986. xiv + 257pp, glossary, bibliography, inscription front free endpaper, a good hardback copy in lightly worn dustjacket. In this comparative study of three modern religious movements, Lawrence A. Babb argues that thematic continuities exist between traditional Hinduism and its widely divergent modern expressions. When..... More
Cambridge. Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers, 2019. 402pp, very good paperback copy. A novel which tells the tale of Kshemapala a monk from the North who has been tasked with an important scholarly mission: fill in the gaps in the history of the monk, Ananda, the Buddha's close companion, about whom..... More
New Delhi. Manohar. 1994. Reprint of the 2rd edition. xii + 591pp, lacks one prelim, otherwise very good in dustjacket. 19 papers on religious movements - such as the Ramakrishna, the Divine Life Society and Ahmadiyah Movements, the Parsi community, Christianity in India, the Singh Sabhas and the evolution of..... More
London. Heinemann. 1974. Black and white photographic illustrations, 256pp, glossary, references, elegant bookplate tipped in front free endpaper, a good copy in little worn and creased dustjacket. Discusses Hinduism, Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Taoism and Sufism. When referring to this item please quote stockid 154818. More
Melbourne. Monash University Press. 2008. Black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 230pp, bibliography, index, small mark on half-title, very good paperback copy. "The energy of the goddess fills every facet of Indian life. To her devotees, the goddess appears in myriad forms: mother, boon-giver, destroyer of evil, divine lover..... More
Madras. Theosophical Publishing House. 1926. Second edition (Fifth impression). Transcribed, compiled and with an introduction by A.T. Barker. Three pages of facsimile signatures, xli + 493pp + 32 page index, edges and endpapers foxed, some occasional light spotting in text, bookplate front pastedown, spine a little sunned, good copy in..... More
UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 383pp, index. Covers lightly worn at edges, a good paperback copy. While Confucian ideals continue to inspire thinkers and political actors, discussions of concrete Confucian practices and institutions appropriate for the modern era have been conspicuously absent from the literature thus far. This volume represents..... More
Chicago. The University of Chicago Press. 2013. Black and white illustrations, 258pp, bibliography, index, paperback. Very good paperback copy. Religious Bodies Politic examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with..... More
London. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. (Circa 1891). 256pp and publisher's 8 page list of printed publications. Original tan coloured cloth stamped and lettered in gilt, lightly sunned on the spine, two library stamps on the preliminaries. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166294. More
Paris. Ecole pratique des hautes études, Ve Section, Centre d'études sur les religions et traditions populaire du Japon. 1981. Black and white illustrations, 377pp, bibliography, index, text in French, foxing upper edge, a good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 156873. More