A Glimpse into The Supreme Science of the Buddha
Colombo: The Colombo Apothecaries' Co., 1959. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. 70 pp. Rubbing to edges, sunning to rear cover, staining to spine. More
Buddhism
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Mahayana Purification: The Confession Sutra with commentary by Arya Nagarjuna ; The practice of Vajrasattva, with sadhana, supplemented by verbally transmitted commentaries from Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, Geshe Rabten, Gegen Khyentse, Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
Dharamsala, India: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. 126 pp. Sunning to spine and tail edges, light chafing to extremities. More
A Concise History of Indian Art
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976. Hardcover. 12mo. Orig. brown cloth, 252pp. With 200 illustrations, 30 in colour. Eratta slip laid-in. Light bumping to spine o/w fine in near fine d/w, a small tear to foot of rear jacket corner. Offers insights into the early beginnings of the Indus Valley through..... More
Buddhist Art
Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (imperial). Twenty-fourth loan exhibition, October 1942. Soft cover, hand-lettered title to spine. 93 pp. B&W photos. Some slight sunning to spine end edges, else fine. List of lectures and floor plain of the Detroit Institute of Arts laid in..... More
Japanese Buddhism
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. [xxxiv] 449 p.p. With a memoir of the author by Sir Harold Parlett. Printed fromt he Barnes & Noble sheets, with Routledge cancel to title page. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket a little discoloured, with bumping to spine head and..... More
Studies in Abhidharma Literature and the Origins of Buddhist Philosophical Systems [SUNY Series in Indian Thought]
Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press, 1995. Soft cover. 8vo. Translated from the German by Sophie Francis Kidd, under the supervision of Ernst Steinkellner. xviii, 247 pp. Heavy bumping to top rear corner. Light cracks to spine. Light rubbing to spine ends. Light scratches at front cover. Light..... More
Pure Land Of The Patriarchs: Zen Master Han-Shan on Pure Land Buddhism
New York, San Franscisco and Toronto: Sutra Translation Committee of The United States and Canada, 1997. Soft cover. 12mo (tall). Dharma Series No, 10. Paperback. 60 pp. Near fine. Ex libris stamp of the Cham Shan Temple Library. Some creasing to upper corner of pages near front. THis book is..... More
Becoming Enllightened
New York: Atria, 2009. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter blue cloth, grey paper boards. x, 256 pp. Rear board bowed, else fine. In Becoming Englightened, His Holiness the Dalai Lama powerfully explores the foundation of Buddhism, laying out an accessible and practical approach to age-old questions: How can we live free from..... More
The Sound of One Hand: 281 Zen Koans with Answers
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1975. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xii,322 pp. Fine. More
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. White paper boards. viii, 275 pp. Fine. One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama's work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher..... More
A Few Brief Data on the Early History and Religion of Tibet and Tibetans
Staten Island, NY. Soft cover. 8vo. [n.d.] Yellow illustrated wrappers lettered in blue, 16pp.Ilustrated. Errata slip and brochure laid-in. Some faint smudges on wrapper but o/w about fine. More
The Scripture Of The Golden Eternity
New York: Totem Press in association with Corinth Books, 1960. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 6" x 9" First edition, first state. Cover drawing in purple by Jesse Sorentino. Original printed wrappers, staple bound. Unpaginated, [18] pp. Age toning to edges, else fine. A collection of 66 prose poems by Kerouac..... More
The Lotus and the Robot
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. First printing stated. Full black cloth. 296 pp. Edges are rubbed. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to extremities, soiled to rear, 1" tear to upper rear joint. This book is a record of the author's recent pilgrimage to the..... More
The Sweet Dews of Ch'an: Lectures on Buddhist Meditation Given at Chuang Yen Monastery, N.Y.
Taipei: The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation, 1995. Soft cover. 8vo. The Dharma Banners Series. Soft cover. 94 pp., [3]. B&W illustrations. Sunning to edges, light rubbing to extremities. More
The Teaching of Buddha
Minato-ku, Tokyo: Kosaido Printing Co., 1984. Hardcover. Original jacket and decorative black cloth, (12), 307pp. Rubber stamp of Society for Buddhist Understanding to front free endpaper, some passages marked and underlined with highlighter and pencil, part of a publishers add blacked out with marker after endpapers, light staining to leaves..... More
Elaborations of Emptiness, Uses of the Heart Sutra
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). xii, 264 p.p. Light tear to jacket's spine tail. Light bumping to spine tail. Book and Jacket in Near Fine condition. More
Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides
Edinburgh: Canongate, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Paperback, 69 p.p. English and Scottish Gaelic. Light creasing to joints and scuff to foot of rear cover, else fine. This book marks the arrival of a major new talent in Scottish poetry. Kevin MacNeil's voice and vision, while rooted in the..... More
Tibetan Marches
London: Readers Union, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Creme cloth, xiii, 303pp. With 16 pages of double-sided photographs and illustrations. A small bump to top-edge of rear board, spine a bit faded o/w near fine in d/w. Jacket sunned with tiny tears at spine and extremities. After the Second World..... More
Buddhist Sutras: Origin, Development, Transmission
Tokyo: Kosei Publishing, 1982. 1st English Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 220 pp. B&W map. Spine sunned, else fine. This book offers an engrossing account both of the origin and development of Buddhist sutras from India and of the monks who braved perilous journeys and mastered unfamiliar languages in..... More
Simple Wealth, Invevitable Wealth
s.l. The Nick Murray Company Inc., 2008. Hardcover. 8vo. Revised Third Edition. Light green cloth, 185pp. About fine in d/w. More
Buddha
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1904. Hardcover. 8vo. Full contemporary red leather, gilt titles and borders. A.E.G. 382 pp. Spine sunned and cracked, some rubbing to extremities. Scuffing to rear board. Hinges starting, with subtle repair to front hinge. Bookplate of Charles Cobb Walker. Embossed ex libris stamp of New England..... More
Tantra Vision: An Invitation to Silence
New Delhi: Diamond Pocket Books, 1991. Soft cover. 4.5" x 7" Soft cover. 167 pp. Some slight bumping and delamination starting to corners, else fine. More
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead [English Title]. The Great Liberation by Hearing in The Intermediate States [Tibetan Title]
London: Penguin Books, 2008. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Soft cover. li, 535 pp. Some rubbing to edges and covers, a few creases to spine and covers. More
The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
Washington: Counterpoint, 2001. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. Text and commentaries translated from Sanskrit and Chinese. Full number line. Soft cover. 471 p.p. Bumping to spine ends, worse at head with short tear. Bruising to head and small spot of wear to rear cover. Zen Buddhism has inspired some of..... More
The Life of Jesus
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full contemporary red leather, gilt titles and borders. A.E.G. 402 pp. Professionally rebacked, orig. spine laid down. Spine sunned with some cracking to leather, chipping to spine ends, some rubbing to extremities. Scuffing to front board. Hinges starting. Bookplate of Charles..... More