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1973rif. 48536Maui: Maui Zendo 1973. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's white photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; 40pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear and dust-soil else Very Good and sound. Includes Gary Snyder's essays "As for Poets" and "On 'As for Poets'" both of which first appeared in the Japanese periodical "The Rising Generation" October 1 1972. Maui Zendo unknown books
1972rif. 48512Hindhead Surrey: Vipassana Centre 1972. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's white staplebound card wrappers printed in blue and orange; 11pp. Light soil wrapper extremities a bit toned American distributor's rubberstamp at head of upper cover else Very Good. Contents comprised of the article "The Meditative Way of Life" followed by "News and Notes." This serial unrecorded in OCLC or COPAC as of April 2020. Vipassana Centre] unknown books
1972rif. 48518Hindhead Surrey: Vipassana Centre 1972. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's white staplebound card wrappers printed in blue and orange; 16pp.; illus. Light soil wrapper extremities a bit toned else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the contributor V.R. Dhiravamsa on p. 1. Contents chiefly comprised of Dhiravamsa's lecture "The Central Issue in Life" first delivered to the Buddhist Society at the University of Reading in 1971. This serial unrecorded in OCLC or COPAC as of April 2020. Vipassana Centre] unknown books
1985rif. 48597San Francisco: Zen Center 1985. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 39pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Upper cover a bit soiled with small paper flaw slightly affecting text without loss of meaning light wear from handling else Very Good. Contents include membership news and bookkeeping; and poetry by the 8th century Buddhist author Shitou Xiqian translated by Thomas Cleary and others. Zen Center unknown books
1972rif. 48643Hythe Kent: Vipassana Foundation 1972. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; publisher's yellow printed staplebound card wrappers; 16pp. Light wear from handling else Very Good or better. Final issue of the Buddhist Centre's newsletter all contents by and about V.R. Dhiravamsa including his lectures "The Buddhist Weapons" and "The Place of Marriage in Buddhism. Vipassana Foundation] unknown books
1986rif. 48606San Francisco: Zen Center 1986. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 47pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wrinkling and faint soil else Very Good and sound. Contributors including Tenshin Zenkin Reb Anderson; Shunryu Suzuki Roshi; Yvonne Rand; and Thich Nhat Hanh. Zen Center unknown books
1983rif. 48604San Francisco: Zen Center 1983. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 31pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Brief biopredation to upper cover slightly touching illustration but not text light wear and soil from handling else Very Good. Contents chiefly devoted to the Zen Center's Green Gulch Farm the last payment on which had just been made. Zen Center unknown books
1985rif. 48605San Francisco: Zen Center 1985. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 51pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Brief biopredation to upper cover slightly touching text without loss of sense some uneven toning else Very Good. Contents include lectures by Dainin Katagiri-roshi Tenshin Reb Anderson Sojun Mel Weitsman and Shunryu Suzuki-roshi. Zen Center unknown books
1983rif. 48712San Francisco: Zen Center 1983. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 47pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Minor toning else Near Fine. Contributors include Suzuki-roshi and Thich Nhat Hanh. Zen Center unknown books
1970rif. 48658Hindhead Surrey: Vipassana Foundation 1970. Second and Enlarged Edition. Slim octavo 20cm.; publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 72pp. Wrappers a bit creased and rubbed light foxing to extremities else Good to Very Good. Vipassana Foundation unknown books
1986rif. 48711San Francisco: Zen Center 1986. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's tan pictorial staplebound wrappers; 64pp.; photographic illus. throughout. A hint of wear else Fine. Contributors include Suzuki-roshi Dainin Katagiri Yvonne Rand and others. Zen Center unknown books
1960rif. 48752Jiulong: Yuan quan she bian ji bu ca. 1960s. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; publisher's white pictorial wrappers; 618pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Minor wrinkling and a bit of toning else Very Good and sound. Chinese Buddhist magazine text in English and Chinese; imprint provided by OCLC record no. 300482875. Yuan quan she bian ji bu unknown books
1817rif. 2238Paris: Chez Brunot-Labbe 1817. First edition. contemporary morocco over marbled boards. Very Good. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WESTERN BOOK ON BUDDHISM. "Although the Western encounter with Asia's largest religion may be the vastest and most consequential spiritual encounter in human history its protagonists and historical development are still barely known. Thus it comes as no surprise that even specialists have hitherto failed to appreciate the earliest Western book about Buddhism: Michel-Jean-François Ozeray's Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale Paris 1817. ". Ozeray's book represents a landmark in the history of the Western discovery of Buddhism. Published three years after the establishment of Europe's first academic chairs for indology and sinology and just before the organized academic study of Buddhist texts began Ozeray's reliance on images and reports by embassies and European residents in Asian countries rather than missionary literature marks a watershed as does the author's firm advocacy of a single historical founder his unwillingness to engage in etymological and mythological flights of fancy and his insistence on Buddhism's status as the largest of all religions of the Orient or even of the entire world. Though the book did not reach a large pan-European readership it was read by intellectuals interested in Buddhism such as the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer Europe's first professor of Sinology Abel-Rémusat and the linguist Julius Klaproth. Klaproth and Abel-Rémusat were around the time of publication expressing increasing interest in Buddhism and its history. Both were involved in the birth of France's earliest Orientalist journal the Journal Asiatique which from the early 1820s became one of Europe's most important sources of information about Buddhism. Ozeray's book thus stands near the end of the mythological speculation period and near the beginning of organized research on Asia's greatest religion" Urs App The First Western Book on Buddhism and Buddha. Paris: Chez Brunot-Labbe 1817. Octavo contemporary half-morocco marbled boards and endpapers. Complete with half-title. Some scuffing to binding small closed tear to half-title. Text in outstanding condition with large margins. SCARCE. Chez Brunot-Labbe unknown books
1984rif. 002542Los Angeles: Buddhist Books International 1984. Both volumes Fine dustjacket on Vol. 1 has tiny tear at flap fold Else Fine and Vol. II dustjacket is Fine. 3rd Printing published 1984. A lovely set both are clean tight and unmarked. . 3rd Printing. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Buddhist Books International Hardcover books
rif. 008251Bloomington IN: Dogen Institute SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR the noted Dogen scholar Shohaku Okumura at title page. An elegant handmade book in string-tied embossed paper boards with gilt lettering hand-made paper likely a very limited number printed. No date circa 2010-2015 OCLC has no listing for this title. Fine as issued. The Waka are in Japanese and English commentary in English. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR. First Edition. String Tied. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dogen Institute Paperback books
rif. 007060Thailand Original dark green oblong cloth photograph album 12 1/2" h x 16 1/2" W tied with green laces cover title "Photographs" in gilt and gilt embossed mandala center of front cover internal title "Art Objects in the Touring Exhibition of Thai Arts in the United States of America". No date no place circa 1960. Contains 313 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" black and white photographs each individually numbered and labelled mounted on black album pages with gilt corner mounts representing a touring exhibition that opened in 1960. at the Indiana University Art Museum and coincided with the first official visit to the United States of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Near Fine 2 photos missing 6 blank pages at end photos mounted both sides of page with tissue guards in between. . Photograph Album . Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 12 1/2" h x 16 1/2" W. Hardcover books
1987rif. 006901Ahmedabad India: Navajivan Publishing House 1987. Copyright page states "First Edition July 1949 5000 copies. Fourth Reprint April 1987 2000 Copies. Total 18000 Copies". Quite SCARCE in a dust-jacketed early printing. Near Fine prior owner name city and date front end page slight toning to end pages in a Very Good dust jacket 1" triangular chip top edge front panel 1/2" chip at head of spine. . 4th Printing. Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Navajivan Publishing House Hardcover books
1909rif. 006662London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1909. SCARCE. Handsomely bound in half-leather and orange cloth gilt lettering and rules at spine 624 pp. Near Fine a few spots light soiling to edges of page block. . Fourth Impression. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. Hardcover books
1965rif. 006465Monuments Serica 1965. RARE. Reprint from Monumenta Serica Vol. XXIV 1965. Near fine slight soiling rear cover. Paginated 207-272. Addenda sheet laid in. . Reprint. Pamphlet. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Monuments Serica Paperback books
1961rif. 161678Colombo: The Bauddha Sahitya Sabha by arrangement with OUP 1961. xii 215p. publisher's ad leaf first issue of this third edition gilt-titled clothbacked printed boards; casing is slightly rolled and cloth spine is heavily "silverfished" i.e. find scattered losses of sizing to spine panel faint soil to cover binder's paste-creep has browned the free endsheets. An else sound clean copy. "The present edition does not make any noticeable changes in the text apart from supplying a number of untraced references and rectifying some instances of incorrect spelling. The synopses of chapters have been deleted." Wijesekera adds that "To those who would regard Buddhism as merely one of the so-called 'organized religions' Dr. Tachibana" gives a vigorous noogie. The Bauddha Sahitya Sabha (by arrangement with OUP) unknown books
1931rif. 439811931. BUDDHISM. A BRIEF GLOSSARY OF BUDDHIST TERMS. London: The Buddhist Lodge 1931. 8vo. orange paper wraps lettered in black. A very good copy with some light creasing and moderate soiling at the wraps. unknown books
2005rif. 40358NY:: Norton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0393059065 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Norton, hardcover books
2001rif. 26415NY: Riverhead Books. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 1573221872 . First printing. Remainder mark on bottom edge else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Riverhead Books hardcover books
rif. 191076Korea: c. 14th century. An example of ritualized sutra-copying in Korea the Chinese text presenting part of the foundational text of Huayan Buddhism. The calligraphy is balanced and well-composed indicative of the hand of a professional copyist. This fragment comes from a copy of Volume 42 of the sutra. Provenance: Ekky Chung collection Indonesia and Beverly Hills California; acquired by the London bookseller Sam Fogg in May 1998 - Martin Schøyen b. 1940 the Norwegian collector of rare books and manuscripts with his pencilled pressmark on the card sheet. Sheet of white paper 290 x 55 mm ruled into 3 columns in gilt gilt calligraphic characters 17 characters per column. Sheet sometime lined with tissue on verso. Recently tipped to sheet of white card 315 x 158 mm calligraphic label. Traces of old bookseller's sticker at foot of sheet of card. A little black spotting large central stain lighter mark at foot worming touching one character: very good. unknown
1900rif. 185518Tibet: c. 1900. Finely painted on linen A beautiful devotional manuscript the decoration at the head showing Je Tsongkhapa the founder of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism and his two spiritual sons Gyaltsabje and Khedrupje. The three figures at the foot are dharmapalas "hell protectors" who protect Buddhists and the Dharma. This example was deaccessioned by the Samye monastery to pay for damages sustained during the Cultural Revolution 1966-76. It was purchased by Martin Schøyen b. 1940 the Norwegian collector of rare books and manuscripts from the Rhythm of Tibet Gallery Lhasa in June 2006. His black ink annotation including his pressmark MS 5337/2 is on the verso. Manuscript and hand-painting on linen 135 x 53 mm. Black block and cursive Tibetan manuscript on yellowish brown panel colour illustrations and adornments at head and foot red border. Three characters in red script on reverse. Housed in long grey archival box Recent pencilled label at foot. Some soiling and mild discolouration but an attractive example. unknown
