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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. 318 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked, with four colour plates in the center of the book. Text is in ENGLISH, with the foreword in TIBETAN. Page edges are lightly smudged. Quarterbound in dark blue and grey paper. Lightly faded around the edges. Dustjacket in very good condition. Lightly worn around the edges. VG+/VG+. Book.…

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 209, [1]; lexicon in double column; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. "This is the first Tibetan-English verb resource to be published in more than thirty years. It is a verb dictionary containing extensive lexical information. Much more than a mere translation of existing works, this lexicon was compiled employing statistical techniques and data, and draws on sources spanning the 1,200 years of Tibet's classical literature and covering all major lineages. The lexicon contains over 1,700 root verb forms and phrasal verb sub-entries, and incorporates a wide range of information not previously available in dictionary form. The individual entries contain English meanings, Sanskrit equivalents, complete sentences drawn from the corpus of Tibetan classical literature, and related sentence structure information" (publisher's blurb).…

Gr- 8°. XXIII, 587 pp.; 2 ff., 589-1288 pp.; 2 ff., 1289-1783 pp., 1 plate Original cloth with dust-jacket in cloth box Translations and commentaries. - Fine, clean, all three volumes in box.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxii, 549, [3]; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thayé (1813-1900) was one of the most influential figures and prolific writers in the Tibetan Buddhist world. He was a founder and the single most important proponent of the nonsectarian movement that flourished in eastern Tibet and remains popular today . Kongtrul's story is a rich source of information on the religion, culture, and political climate of Tibet during his times" (jacket blurb).…

8vo, pp. xii, [2], 480, [2]; 8 color plates, and a few other illustrations in the text; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "The Buddha from Dölpo is a revised and enlarged edition of the only book about the most controversial Buddhist master in the history of Tibet, Dölpopa Sherab Gyalt-sen (1292-1361), who became perhaps the greatest Tibetan expert of the K?lacakra, or Wheel of Time, a vast system of tantric teachings. Based largely on esoteric Buddhist knowledge from the legendary land of Shambhala, Dölpopa's insights have profoundly influenced the development of Tibetan Buddhism for more than 650 years" (jacket blurb).…

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. 262, [2]; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "This book recounts Guru Rinpoché's historic visit to Tibet and explains his continuing significance to Buddhists. In doing so, it illustrates how a country whose powerful armies overran the capital of China and installed a puppet emperor came to abandon its aggressive military campaigns: this transformation was due to Guru Rinpoché, who tamed and converted Tibet to Buddhism and thereby changed the course of Asian history" (jacket blurb).…

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xlix, [1], 1096; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "A fascinating and even thrilling opening of horizons to understand what is behind appearances.".