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
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
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
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
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
London. The Buddhist Society. 1955. Black and white frontispiece, 173pp, bibliography, a little underlining in ink on contents page but otherwise clean, good hardback copy in slightly damaged but now protected dustjacket. 19 x 12.5cm. When referring to this item please quote stockid 213856. 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
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 msot strongly..... 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
United States: Shambhala Publications Inc, 1982. 8 black and white photographs, ix + 301pp, glossary, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. The first of two volumes of collected addresses delivered around the world by Daisaku Ikeda, the president of Soka Gakkai International. The book addresses some of the most..... More
Kandy. Buddhist Publication Society. 1958. 30pp, 18.5 x 12.5cm. Original light blue wrappers little worn and bumped at head of spine, otherwise a very good copy. The Wheel Publication No. 3. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173390. More
Delhi. Sharada Publishing House. 2005. Volume I: xxvi + 254 + unpaginated plates. Volume II: xxvi + 255-516pp + unpaginated plates. Colour and black and white illustrations, little browning margin of endpapers and edges, dustjacket with sunned spine, dustjacket of volume 1 coloured in to show I instead of II..... More
New York. Dover Publications. 1963. xli + 453pp, index, covers slightly worn and spine creased, upper edge trifle browned, contents sound and clean, a good copy. Multilingual, English and Sanskrit text, few French paragraphs. When referring to this item please quote stockid 177260. More
Berkeley. Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research. 1997. Translated by Morris J. Augustine. xii +170pp, index, glossary, 24 x 16cm. A very good hardback with contrasting cloth spine. BDK English translation of the Tripitaka series. When referring to this item please quote stockid 171013. More
Bombay. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. 1995. Profuse black and white and coloured illustrations, Gandhi on Buddha (unpaginated) + 330pp, bibliography, notes, errata inserted into contents, inscription on half title page, some occasional browning, good hardback copy in protected dustjacket. 30 x 25cm. " This album represents..... More
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1992. Black and white illustrations, xviii + 257pp, notes, bibliography, index, some markings on cloth covers, touch of foxing reverse of dustjacket, good hardback copy. In this book the author examines abortion as a window on the culture and ethics of Japan. He addresses the issue..... More