Pune. Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. 1981. xxix + 152pp, appendices. Top edge and paperback covers patchily foxed, dustjacket margins and spine browned, very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 217721. 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
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
Tuscon. University of Arizona Press. 1968. Second printing. xiv + 97pp, bibliography, index, some foxing and browning endpapers and on cloth, a good hardback copy otherwise. "The central aim of this study of Shinran's thought is to make a systematic presentation of his cardinal ideas which, though well known in..... More
Berkeley. Shambhala Publications. 1976. Two volumes. Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Nyanamoli. Volume I: xlix + 478pp. Name of a prior owner title page, sunned spine, covers lightly soiled. Volume II: 398pp, index, glossary. Name of a prior owner half title page. Both volumes: Top edges foxed, very good..... More
No Publisher. Selling Agent Stechert. New York. 1914. Maps, vi + 106pp, glossary, quarto, paper covered boards worn at corners, head and tail of spine rubbed, neat signature front paste down. 30.5 x 22.5cm. Good copy. An unusual, rather whimsical book which is described in the preface as a "largely..... More
London. Thorsons. 2002. Colour and black and white illustrations, ix + 165pp, glossary, bibliography, a very good hardback copy in slightly worn dustjacket. When referring to this item please quote stockid 156434. More
New York. Dover Publications. Reprint. Two volumes. Volume I: xlix + 320pp, appendix, indices. Volume II: xxvii + 388pp, indices. Vol. XXXV and XXXVI of "The Sacred Books of the East" series edited by F. Max Muller. Both volumes: Name and stamp of a prior owner front free endpaper, top..... More
Leiden. E.J. Brill. 1973. Map, black & white illustrations, xli + 497pp, bibliography. Upper board little bumped at lower corner, otherwise a very good copy. Text in French. When referring to this item please quote stockid 175548. More
London. Thorsons. 1997. Maps, black and white photographic plates, xii + 324pp, index, bibliography, glossary, indention with closed tear upper cover lower extremity, remainder mark, good in paperback. "...This book offers both visionary and historical perspectives on [Tibet], and includes a gazetteer describing the highlights of a tour of [the..... More
New Delhi. Munshiram Manoharlal. 1984. Reprint. x + 172pp, bibliography, index, light browning, small section torn from fore edge of front free endpaper, dustjacket chipped but overall still a good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176431. More
New York. Paragon Book Reprint. Reprint. xxxiii + 453pp, index, very good hardback copy. Facsimile of the revised second edition of this work published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner in London in 1893. When referring to this item please quote stockid 166914. More
Kyoto. International Association of Buddhist Culture. 1993. Volume 1. Black and white illustrations, x + 81pp, a very good paperback copy. Selection of content includes essays such as: Everyday Life of a Nembutsu Follower, Hojun NISHI; A Woman Myôkônin O-karu, Hoyu ISHIDA; Shinran Shonin's View of the Transformed Land, Akira..... More
Ithaca. Snow Lion. 1991. Reprint. Foreword by the 14th Dalai Lama. xix + 158pp, notes. Paperback covers little worn at extremities, otherwise a very good copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 174721. More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1998. Black and white photographic illustrations, x + 207pp, index, appendix: Spellings of Tibetan names and terms, soiled paperback covers, foxed edges, name half title, a sound copy. Demonstrating how the Buddhist revival in Tibet must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1998. First edition. Black and white photographic illustrations, vii+ ix + 203pp, index, paperback in very good condition. Appendix: Spellings of Tibetan names and terms. Demonstrating how the Buddhist revival in Tibet must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations for greater Tibetan..... More
Delhi. Munshiram Manoharlal. 1978. Revised Edition. Colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations and line drawings, xxxi + 141pp, bibliography, index, 27.5 x 21.5cm. Preliminaries and finals foxed but text block and images are clean. First published in 1914 "for the express purpose of giving the student interested in Tibetan iconography..... More
New York. Orion Publishing. 1971. First English language edition. Translated from the French by JA Underwood. Black and white photographic illustrations, vi + 337pp, index, dustjacket (now protected) a little browned and sunned, otherwise a very good hardback copy. An authoritative study on the greatest of the Buddhist Middle ages..... More
Berkeley. Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research. 1995. 164 + 167pp, glossaries, indices, 24 x 16cm. A very good hardback with contrasting cloth spine. BDK English translation of the Tripitaka series. Consists of two separate books. The Essentials of the Vinaya Tradition by Gyonen, translated by Leo M. Pruden..... More
Berlin. Museum für Indische Kunst. 1977. Black and white illustrations, 573pp, footnotes, neat inscription on title-page, otherwise very good hardback copy in trifle worn dustjacket. 26 x 20cm. Text in German. When referring to this item please quote stockid 175132. More
London. The British Library. 1993. Profuse coloured illustrations, 95pp, appendix, glossary, Professor Anthony Reid's signature front free endpaper, shelf worn dustjacket small closed tear upper cover, a very good hardback copy. "In this superbly illustrated book, Patricia Herbert draws on manuscript sources from Burma - one of the most strongly..... More
Wien. Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaftan. 2008. 531pp, paperback. 30 x 21cm. Text in German. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176428. More
Delhi. Motilal Banarsidass. 2004. First Indian Edition. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, colour frontispiece, xx + 903pp, notes, small crease on upper section lower cover of dustjacket, otherwise very good hardback copy. "Three Mountains and Seven Rivers, is a collection of 56 essays to felicitate the sixtieth birthday of..... More
Colombo. The Bauddha Sahitya Sabha. 1950. 27pp, paperback copy in stapled wrappers, good condition. By I. B. Horner, an able exponent of the Buddha-Dhamma, after much research during her time as a librarian of Newnham College in Cambridge. When referring to this item please quote stockid 170469. More
Taiwan: Ch'eng Wen Publishing Company. 1970. Reprint. Translated by J. Takakusu. Folding map, lxiv + 240pp, index, notes, spine of covers slightly faded, edges slightly browned, from the library of Professor Anthony Reid with his name front free endpaper, a good hardback copy. This work provides a "veritable mine of..... More