Rhys Davids Prof (8 results)

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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. One of the Broadway Translation Series. A little wear to the cloth covered boards. Top and tail of spine a little dusty. Binding tight and contents clean. 325522.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book contains numbers 47 to 60 of the renowned Wheel Publications, originally published as small booklets, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha's teaching. The titles are: WH 47 Buddhism and the God-Idea, WH 48/49 The Discourse on the Snake Simile, WH 50 Knowledge and Conduct, WH 51 Taming the Mind, WH 52/53 Pathways of Buddhist Thought, WH 54 The Mirror of the Dhamma, WH 55 The Five Precepts, WH 56 Ordination in Theravada Buddhism, WH 57/58 A Discourse to Knowers of Veda, WH 59 Stories of Old, and WH 60 The Satipatthana Sutta and Its Application to Modern Life.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Hard cover, 8vo., in half red cloth over tan cloth-covered boards, with a paper labels to the top board and spine, printed in black. lxxx, 256 pp. This work is partially based on the 1880 translations of V. Fausböll of the estimated 550 tales forming the birth-stories, of interest to the western student of the history of Indian literature. Extensive new introductory material includes a number of essays on Buddhist belief, its translation to the West, including the relation of the birth-stories to Greek and Roman myth, and connection to biblical stories. A number of the estimated 550 Jataka Tales, said to form the "Buddhist canonical scriptures," are translated into English by Thomas William Rys Davids, (1843-1922), an expert in the ancient P?li language founder of the London School for Oriental Studies, and Professor at the University of London from1882-1904 and founder of the London School for Oriental Studies. A review of the13-volume Broadway Translation Series is included in the Classical Weekly, Vol. XIX, No. 24 dated May 3, 1926. Condition: Very Good. Slight soiling to boards and top edge. A few marks of wear, however, mostly clean inside. Lacking rear free end paper. A few roughly opened pages resulting in closed tears. Printed in Great Britain by Stephen Austin & Sons, Hertford. "New and Revised Edition," Part of the Broadway Translations Series.

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editor's cloth binding. 220x145mm, 262 pages + VIII - 386 pages - 2 pp. + VII - 327 pges, text in English and Pali, Title, volume, publisher, and date gilt on spine. Very faint foxing at the top edge. Book in very good condition. En cas de problème de commande, veuillez nous contacter via notre page d'accueil / If there is a problem with the order, please contact us via our homepage.