United States. Rimpoche, Lama Kunga and Brian Cutillo (translated), 1978. Black and white line illustrations, 181pp, glossary, small mark on lower cover, extremities a little rubbed, spine a little browned, good paperback copy. 23 x 17cm. "Milarepa's songs are a candid and eloquent record of the everyday activities and inner..... 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
London. Dorling Kindersley. 2017. Profuse colour illustrations, 512pp, hardback. "Take a fresh look at India's great epic with The Illustrated Mahabharata and rediscover the lost kingdoms, dynasties, and characters of the Mahabharata. Follow the tale as it unfolds through 18 parvas with stunning photographs, paintings, sculptures, and historical artefacts. Discover..... 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 Jersey. Chartwell Books. 1979. First Edition. Colour and black and white illustrations, 128pp, index, bibliography, dustjacket shelf wear with loss and spine sunned, edges, initial and final leaves trifle foxed, prior owner's inscription on browned front free endpaper, a good secondhand copy. 28.7 x 22.3cm. When referring to this..... 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
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
Chicago. The University of Chicago Press. 2016. Black and white illustrations, xii + 358pp, index, references, notes, good hardback copy in dustjacket. "Since its arrival in Japan in the sixth century, Buddhism has played a central role in Japanese culture. But the historical figure of the Buddha, the prince of..... 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
London. Skeffington. 1958. Black and white photographic illustrations, 216pp, signature front free endpaper, dustjacket worn with small chips and tears otherwise a good clean hardback copy. Actor Lew Ayres reccounts in this book the long trip he made with a friend through 1950s Asia. His aim was to make a...... More
Chicago. Bhratara: Indonesian Journal of Cultural Studies. January 1973. Wrappers, worn and marked and with the library stamp of Monash University. 85-118pp with bibliography. 25 x 16cm. A scholarly analysis of the work of Dr. Clifford Geertz - The Religion of Java that was published in 1960. When referring to..... 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
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. Collins. 1990. Maps, black and white photographic and line illustrations, ix + 309pp, index, prior owner's signature front free endpaper, good copy in dustjacket. Biography of the Japanese Zen monk Kawaguchi Ekai who in 1900 crossed from Nepal into Tibet. He was already the first Japanese person to visit..... More
