Divine Stories: Divyavadana, Part 1
The "Divyavadana" is an enormous compendium of Indian Buddhist narratives written in Sanskrit from the early centuries of the Common Era, whose stories have since spread throughout Asia, as both narra...
The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation Of A Buddhist Classic
The Lotus Sutra is one of the central texts of Mahayana Buddhism, both studied and used as a devotional text in virtually all sects and schools of Buddhism throughout East Asia. Its teachings provide ...
A Buddhist Reader: Selections From The Sacred Books
This much-cited scholarly anthology of key Theravada Buddhist documents originally appeared in 1896 as part of the renowned Harvard Oriental Series. An excellent, accessible presentation of the vast r...
The Dhammapada And Sutta-Nipata
This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on th...
Penser Lautorite Des Ecritures: La Polemique De Dharmakirti Contre La Notion Brahmanique Orthodoxe D'Un Veda Sans Auteur
Seven works by the Buddhist philosopher Dharmakirti (ca. 600660 CE) are still nearly completely extant in their original Sanskrit. For the most part they deal with logic, theories of perception and Bu...
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual, And Art
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Budd...
Adhyardhasatika Prajnaparamita: Sanskrit And Tibetan Texts
The Adhyardhasatika Prajnaparamita is one of the most influential and revered scriptures in East-Asian esoteric Buddhism. Known as the Rishukyo, this sktra, in its Chinese version by Amoghavajra, has ...
Rare Texts From Tibet: Seven Sources For The Ecclesiastic History Of Medieval Tibet
A preliminary perusal of a published set of rare and old bKa-brgyud-pa manuscript texts that recently surfaces in Lhasa - collected and published under the cover-title dPal Bri gung bka brgyud kyi cho...
The Kilaya Nirvana Tantra And The Vajra Wrath Tantra: Two Texts From The Ancient Tantra Collection
The (rNying ma'i rgyud'bum) contains many of the oldest examples of Tantric literature in Tibetan. It also contains many of the most important examples of Buddhist Tantric literature surviving in any ...
New Version Gandhari - Cloth
This volume continues the detailed examination of the British Library Kharosthi scrolls - extremely fragile and brittle fragments of manuscript on birch-bark rolls. Although their provenance is uncert...
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