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Sarnath A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began
ISBN: PB: 9781606066164, Getty Publications, February 2020
192 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds (...
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£30,00
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Storied Sage Canon and Creation in the Making of a Japanese Buddha
ISBN: HB: 9780226286389, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
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 ancient Indian descent who abandoned his wealth and power to become an awakened being, has...
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£32,00
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Cave Temples of Dunhuang Buddhist Art on the Silk Road
ISBN: HB: 9781606064894, Getty Publications, June 2016
302 pp., 25x15 cm, 25 black&white illus., 190 colour illus.
The Mogao grottoes in northwestern China, located near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world's most significant sites of Buddhist art. In some five hundred caves carved into rock cliffs at the edge of the Gobi dese...
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£45,00
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Illuminating the Life of the Buddha An Illustrated Chanting Book from Eighteenth-Century Siam
ISBN: HB: 9781851242832, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2013
160 pp., 26.7x19.4 cm, 86 colour illus.
This lavishly illustrated book investigates an outstanding eighteenth-century example of a samut khoi, a type of beautiful folding book found in Southeast Asia, which became particularly popular as a repository for the Buddha's teachings. Written in...
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£35,00
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