Category: Buddhism and Buddhist Studies

Buddhism is a subject of absorbing interest to student of comparative religions, ethics, history and social philosophy. Its historical foundations have been discussed by Senart, Oldenberg and C. A.F. Rhys Davids. Printed Pages: 530.
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A Comparative Study of the Pratimoksa (on the Basis of Its Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit and Pali versions)

By: W. Pachow

Price: $21.50

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.:

Seller ID: 029558

ISBN: 8120815726

Condition: New

Kuan-si-im Pusar: Eine Tuerkische Uebersetzung Des XXV. Kapitels Der Chinesischen Ausgabe Des Saddharmapundarika

By: W. Radloff (Herausgegeben Und Uebersetzt)

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Osnabruck, Germany, Biblio Verlag: 1970

Seller ID: 018946

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Printed Pages: 119 mit vier Beilagen und zwei Tafeln.
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Culladinnesa

By: W. Stede

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Oxford, UK, The Pali Text Society: 1988

Seller ID: 007161

ISBN: 0860132773

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 322.
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The Life of the Buddha And The Early History of His Order

By: W. Woodville Rockhill (Tr.)

Price: $3.95

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Low Price Publications/D.K. Publishers Distributors Pvt. Ltd.: 2013

Seller ID: 107335

ISBN: 8175365374

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 284.
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Introduction Mahayan Buddhism

By: W.M. Mgovern

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Delhi, India, Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan: 1985

Seller ID: 103730

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

The Tibetan Book of Great Liberation

By: W.Y. Evans-Wentz

Price: $4.50

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 2000

Seller ID: 015100

ISBN: 812150970X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The paramount teachings of the most illustrious teachers of Tibet and India, who have transmitted their teachings to the peoples of Occident, are the base of this book. In Book I, hereof, an account of the marvellous superhuman life and secret doctrines of the Great Guru Padmasambhava, who in the eighth century on an invitation of the Tibetan King, travelled to Tibet and converted Tibet into Tantric Buddhism. Book II expounds the quintessence of the Supreme Path, the Mahayana, and reveals the yogic method of attaining the Great Liberation of Nirvana by means of knowing the one mind, the cosmic...
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead or the after Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, According to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering

By: W.Y. Evans-Wentz

Price: $16.95

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 2017

Seller ID: 039855

ISBN: 812150984X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The Tibetan Book of the Dead, has taken it to be a very free translation of Bardo Thodol ('Liberation by Hearing on the After-Death Plane'), is among the sacred books of the world. The book is pre-eminent insight into interpretations of higher 'lamaic' teachings and of the subtle esotericism underlying the Bardo Thodol. In this Oriental ideas have been put forward in a form which is intelligible to the European mind. The Occidental parallels of various mystic or occult doctrines current in Orient are frequently referred in this book, because author's personal experience gathered during years o...
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead or the After-death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, According to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering

By: W.Y. Evans-Wentz; Foreword By Sir John Woodroffe

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Delhi, India, Pilgrims Books Pvt. Ltd.: 1999

Seller ID: 018945

ISBN: 8176240559

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Printed Pages: 292 with b/w illustrations. Rubbed and scratched cover.
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Two Lamaistic Pantheons: From materials collected by the late Baron A. von Stael-Holstein, ed. with Introduction and Indexes, 2 vols.

By: Walter Eugene Clark

Price: $43.95

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 1999

Seller ID: 015130

ISBN: 8121508819

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

With the heightened interest in "the secret language" of symbols-especially in the iconography of the Orient, which is admired and studied both for its artistic beauty and its multi-levels of meaning-we are priveleged to present two of the most important sourceworks of Lamaistic esotericism. Each Pantheon, or collection of icons, is presented in photo-reproductions from the priceless originals, with descriptive indexes in Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit. Each is a treasure-house of Buddhist imagery and allegory, rich in symbolic suggestiveness, profoundly spiritual. The Pao-Hsiang Lou P...
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Pali Literature and Language: Authorised English Translation By Balakrishna Ghosh

By: Wilhelm Geiger

Price: $10.25

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 2012

Seller ID: 011958

ISBN: 8121507162

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

The present English translation of Professor Geiger's Pali Literature und Sprache offers more than the German original, for much new material supplied by Professor Geiger himself has been incorporated into it. Printed Pages: 266.
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Culavamsa: Being the More Recent Part of Mahavamsa- 2 Vols.

By: Wilhelm Geiger

Price: $31.00

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Asian Educational Services: 2003

Seller ID: 035907

ISBN: 812060430X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

Printed pages: 808.
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Culavamsa: Being the More Recent Part of the Mahavamsa, 2 Vols.

By: Wilhelm Geiger & C. Mabel Rickmers

Price: $24.95

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Asian Educational Services: 2003

Seller ID: 023172

ISBN: 812060430X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

Set of 2 vols.
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Culavamsa: Being the More Recent Part of the Mahavamsa, Vols. I & II (Pali Text Society Text Series Nos. 20, 21)

By: Wilhelm Geiger (ed.)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Oxford, UK, The Pali Text Society: 1980

Seller ID: 007104

ISBN: 0710005547

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 692. Set of 2 vols.
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The Mahavamsa or the Great Chronicle of Ceylon

By: Wilhelm Geiger (trs.) Assisted By Mabel Haynes Bode with an Addendum By G.C. Mendis

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oxford, UK, The Pali Text Society: 1980

Seller ID: 007190

ISBN: 0710006551

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Printed Pages: 366.
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Culavamsa (Being the More Recent Part of the Mahavamsa), 2 Parts in One

By: Wilhelm Geiger and C. Mabel Rickmers

Price: $10.50

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 1996

Seller ID: 030100

ISBN: 8120813006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 365.
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An Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism

By: William Montgomery McGovern

Price: $11.95

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 2013

Seller ID: 032994

ISBN: 8121507669

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Buddhism is divided into two great schools, Mahayana and Hinayana. Both systems originated in India, but since the former predominates in China, Japan, Nepal and in a modified form, in Tibet and Mongolia, while the latter is confined almost exclusively to Ceylon, Burma, and Siam; they are often and rather incorrectly known as Northern and Southern Buddhism. Mahayana is again divided into unreformed and reformed branches, the unreformed branch being found all over Eastern Asia, while the reformed branch has its centre in Japan. Roughly, we may compare these divisions of Buddhism to those of the...
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Buddhist Praying Wheel

By: William Simpson

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Delhi, India, Nag Publishers: 1979

Seller ID: 103862

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 312.
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The Land of Lamas: Notes of a Journey Through China, Mongolia and Tibet

By: William Woodville Rockhili

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Sri Satguru Publications:

Seller ID: 034224

ISBN: 8170307953

Condition: New

The Life of Buddha and the Early History of His Order

By: William Woodville Rockhili

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Sri Satguru Publications:

Seller ID: 034225

ISBN: 8170307937

Condition: New

The Land of the Lamas: Notes of a Journey Through China Mongolia and Tibet

By: William Woodville Rockhili

Price: $11.50

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 2005

Seller ID: 102378

ISBN: 8177690043

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Originally published in 1891. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.Printed Pages: 399.
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Personal Salvation and Filial Piety: Two Precious Scroll Narratives of Guanyin and Her Acolytes

By: Wilt L. Idema (translated and with an introduction)

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 2009

Seller ID: 029168

ISBN: 8121512131

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara was a handsome prince when he entered China. As Guanyin, the bodhisattva was venerated from the eleventh century onward in the shape of a beautiful woman who became a universal savior. Throughout the last millennium, the female Guanyin has enjoyed wide and fervid veneration throughout East Asia and has appeared as a major character in literature and legend. In one tale, Guanyin (as the princess Miaoshan) returns from the dead after being executed by the king, her father, for refusing to marry. The most popular version of this legend is The Precious Scroll of Ince...
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Wisdom Energy 2

By: Wisdom Culture

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Cumbria, England, Wisdom Culture: 1979

Seller ID: 010511

ISBN: 0861710010

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Printed Pages: 94 with numerous b/w illustrations. Slightly rubbed and scratched cover.
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The Buddha Image: Its Origin and Development

By: Y. Krishan and Kalpana K. Tadikonda

Price: $44.25

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 2012

Seller ID: 037048

ISBN: 8121505658

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This is a revised edition of the book, first published in 1995. It deals with crucial though controversial questions in buddhist art: the origin of the buddha image-its transformation from aniconism to anthropomorphism-and the iconography of the Buddha Images. The earliest Buddhist Art of Sanchi and Bharhut is aniconic : The Buddha is represented in symbols only. In the later Buddhist art of Gandhara and Mathura, the Buddha is represented in human form: he is the Principal subject of Sculptural art. The book seeks to explore the geographical area in which the image of the Buddha first emerged ...
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Index to the Vinaya-Pitaka

By: Y. Ousaka, M. Yamazaki, and K.R. Norman

Price: $105.00

Publisher: Oxford, UK, The Pali Text Society: 1996

Seller ID: 038864

ISBN: 0-86013-338-9

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 707.
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Mahayanasutralankara: A Study in Vijnana-Vada Buddhism

By: Y.S. Sastri

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Sri Satguru Publications/Indian Books Centre:

Seller ID: 034066

ISBN: 81-7030-195-2

Condition: New

Hinduism and Buddhism in Perspective

By: Y.V. Dahiya

Price: $14.25

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 2008

Seller ID: 025286

ISBN: 8121511798

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The book Hinduism and Buddhism in Perspective is divided in seven chapters. So far many things with the emphasis on philosophical thought have been discussed and viewed throughout this book. Both Hinduism and Buddhism are primarily concerned with the practical problems of human life. Their direct aim is to offer solutions for the proper guidance of Human conduct. They try to suggest practical ways and means of solving the pressing problems of life to attain the state of Supreme perfection. However, the approach of Hinduism is mainly para-psychological and it offers solutions mostly on the basi...
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Mahayanasutralankara of Asanga: A Study in Vijnanavada Buddhism

By: Yajneshwar S. Shastri

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Delhi, India, Sri Satguru Publications: 1989

Seller ID: 101122

ISBN: 8170301955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Asanga is one of the outstanding philosophical personalities in teh line of Buddhist writers. His work Mahayanasutratankara is a landmak in (he development of Vijanavada Buddhism. In fact it deals with almost all the topics of the Buddhism. But this work hasn't got it's due place in the field of research. Asanga himself is neglected thinker, though he has influenced the great thinkers like Vasubandhu and others. The present monograph is an attempt to bring out significant contribution made by Asanga to the Buddhism in general and Vijnanavada in particular.This Monograph registersa deviation fr...
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Systems of Buddhistic Thought

By: Yamakami Sogen

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Delhi, India, Eastern Book Linkers: 2008

Seller ID: 024927

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

The Essence of Nector

By: Yeshe Tsondru

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Paljor Publications/Library of Tibetan Works & Archives: 1994

Seller ID: 103574

ISBN: 8185102023

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

The Essence of Nectar, an extensive prayer written by Yeshe Tsondru, an incarnate Lama of the Gelug tradition, is a poetic supplement of the Great Exposition of the Graded Path written by the founder of the Gelug tradition , Je Tsong-K-pa. Such teachings were promulgated by Buddha Shakyamuni in the 5th century B.C. and subsequently transmitted through a succession of realized Indian and Tibetan masters. In this work, Yeshe Tsondru eloquently synthesizes tall the cogent points of the progressive meditations leading to the awakening of a Buddha: The complete eradication of suffering and the atta...
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Bodhi Tree Worship in Theravada Buddhism

By: Yohei Shimizu

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York ,USA, Snow Lion Publications: 2010

Seller ID: 038942

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Printed pages: 116 with numerous b/w illustrations.
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Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism

By: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Price: $16.70

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Shambhala Publication/TBI:

Seller ID: 112794

ISBN: 1569570299

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom

By: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Harmony Press/TBI:

Seller ID: 112999

ISBN: 0307407799

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

Tao-Sheng’s Commentary on the Lotus Sutra (Study and Translation)

By: Young-Ho Kim

Price: $10.20

Publisher: Delhi, India, Sri Satguru Publications: 1992

Seller ID: 101127

ISBN: 8170303060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

(Chu) Tao Sheng stands out in History as a unique and preeminent thinker whose paradigmatic, original ideas paved the way for the advent of Chinese Buddhism, The Universality of Buddha nature, which Tao-Sheng Championed at the cost of excommunication, was to become a cornerstone of the Chinese Buddhist ideology. This Book presents a comprehensive study of the only complete document by Tao-Sheng still in existence. The work was composed toward the end of Tao-Sheng’s life (in 432), a product of his mature scholarship, presumably incorporating the doctrines pronounced earlier. The aim of this s...
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Indo-Muslim Polity (Turko-Afghan Period)

By: Yusuf Husain

Price: $7.25

Publisher: Shimla, India, Indian Institute of Advanced Study: 1971

Seller ID: 037593

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Printed pages: 261.
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The Budha Dhamma and Doctrine

By: Yuwaraj Sontakke

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Delhi, India, Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan: 2010

Seller ID: 103817

ISBN: 8183900593

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A refreshingly splendid work indeed! The author, my friend Dr.Yuwaraj Sontakke, merits unqualified kudos for his brilliantexposition of the teachings of Lord Buddha and Buddhism and theirever-lasting relevance to the world and its multiple problems. Thebook is truly and profoundly enlightening for the scholars as wellas for the interested beginners. Dr. Yuwaraj has purposefully usedthe simple narrative style in order to make it easilycomprehensible even to a layman who is not deeply conversant withthe intricacies of English language. The book will surely be founduseful and original by one and ...
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An Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy in India and Tibet

By: Zahiruddin Ahmad

Price: $36.00

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Aditya Prakashan: 2007

Seller ID: 022705

ISBN: 8177420690

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 406.
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Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with The Dalai Lama On Brain Science and Buddhism

By: Zara Houshmand, Robert B. Livingston & B. Alan Wallace (Eds)

Price: $16.60

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Snow Lion/Shambhala Publications/TBI:

Seller ID: 111506

ISBN: 1559391278

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 183.
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No River to Cross: Trusting the Enlightenment that’s Always Right Here

By: Zen Master Daehaeng (Daehaeng Kun Sunim)

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Boston, USA, Wisdom Publications: 2009

Seller ID: 028080

ISBN: 0861715349

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

It is often said that enlightenment means "crossing over to the other shore," that far-off place where we can at last be free from suffering. Likewise, it is said that Buddhist teachings are the raft that takes us there. In this sparkling collection from one of the most vital teachers of modern Korean Buddhism, Zen Master Daehaeng shows us that there is no raft to find and, truly, no river to cross. She extends her hand to the Western reader, beckoning each of us into the unfailing wisdom accessible right now, the enlightenment that is always, already, right here. A Zen (or seon, as ...
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Refining Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment

By: Zen Master Dogen and Kosho Uchiyama; Translated By Thomas Wright

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, USA, Weatherhill, Inc.: 1983

Seller ID: 018843

ISBN: 0834801795

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Printed Pages: 136. Slightly rubbed cover.
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Star and Cloud: The Biography of Venerable Master Hsing Yun

By: Zheng Wen (adapted and illustrated); Translated from the Chinese By Madelon Wheeler-Gibb

Price: $3.50

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Buddha Light Art and Living Pvt. Ltd.: 2003

Seller ID: 037844

ISBN: 9789382017141

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Printed Page: 152.
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Mastering the Art of War: Zhuge Liang's and Liu Ji's Commentaries on the Classic By Sun Tzu

By: Zhuge Liang & Liu Ji; Translated and Edited By Thomas Cleary

Price: $5.25

Publisher: Boston, USA, Shambhala: 2004

Seller ID: 018807

ISBN: 1569570256

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Brand New

Composed by two prominent statesmen-generals of classical China, this book develops the strategies of Sun Tzu's classic, The Art of War, into a complete handbook of organization and leadership. The great leaders of ancient China who were trained in Sun Tzu's principles understood how war is waged successfully, both materially and mentally, and how victory and defeat follow clear social, psychological, and environmental laws. Drawing on episodes from the panorama of Chinese history, Mastering the Art of War presents practical summaries of these essential laws along with tales of conflict and st...
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Category: Buddhism and Buddhist Studies