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 27 Jul 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Record Of Buddhistic Kingdoms -Being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hien of his travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline
Translated by James Legge
Printed at The Clarendon Press, Oxford - 1886

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 26 Jul 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Pag Sam Jon Zang
History of the rise, progress and downfall of Buddhism in India
By Sumpa Khan-po Yece Pal Jor
Edited by Sarat Chandra Das
Published by The Presidency Jail Press, Calcutta - 1908

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 26 Jul 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Taranatha's History of Buddhism in India
Translated by Lama Chimpa and Alaka Chattopadhyaya
Published by Motilal Banarsidass Publications - 1970

Born in A.D. 1575, Lama Taranatha wrote this book in 1608. V. Vasilev of St. Petersburg translated it from Tibetan into Russian in A... Read More
 18 May 2015 Rare Paintings
Copy of painting in the caves of Ajanta by Robert Gill, oil on canvas, 1850-1854, India.

This is a copy of a painting in cave 1 at Ajanta. The white patches cover fragile areas that require conservation work. The Ajanta cave paintings are the oldest surviving examples of painting in India. They ... Read More
 16 May 2015 Rare Paintings
Buddha on the threshold of renunciation
By Nandalal Bose

Illustration from the book:
Footfalls of Indian history
By The Sister Nivedita (aka Margaret E. Noble)
Published by Longmans, Green & Co., London - 1915 Read More
 16 May 2015 Rare Paintings
Buddha and the lame kid
By Nandalal Bose

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Footfalls of Indian history
By The Sister Nivedita (aka Margaret E. Noble)
Published by Longmans, Green & Co., London - 1915 Read More
 8 Apr 2015 Sculpture
The Bodhisattva Maitreya
India, Bihar, Gaya District, 11th century
Sculpture
Schist

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 17 Feb 2015 Article/Essay
Religions in the Kushan Empire
By J. Harmatta, B. N. Puri, L. Lelekov, S. Humayun and D. C. Sircar

Extract from the book:
History of Civilizations of Central Asia
The development of sedentary and nomadic civilizations: 700 B.C. to A.D. 250
Published by UNESCO - 1994

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 12 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Prolegomena to a history of Buddhist philosophy
By Beni Madhab Barua (1888-1948)
Published by University of Calcutta, Calcutta - 1918

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Image:
Buddha Shakyamuni
India, Andhra Pradesh, late 3rd ... Read More
 12 Feb 2015 Rare Manuscripts
The Appearance of Shakyamuni (the Buddha) after His Death, Page from a Manuscript of the Majma' al-Tawarikh (Collection of Chronicles) of Hafiz-Abru
Afghanistan, Herat, circa 1425
Manuscripts; folios
Ink, opaque watercolor on paper.

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 11 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Hand-book of Chinese Buddhism, being a Sanskrit-Chinese Dictionary
With vocabularies of Buddhist terms in Pali, Singhalese, Siamese, Burmese, Tibetan, Mongolian and Japanese
By Ernest John Eitel (1838-1908)
Published by Sanshusha, Tokyo - 1904

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 11 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Student's Pali-English Dictionary
By Maung Tin
Published by British Burma Press, Rangoon - 1920

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The Pāli Language and Literature

Pāli is the name given to the language of the texts of The... Read More
 11 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Questions Of King Milinda
By Thomas William Rhys Davids
Printed at The Clarendon Press, Oxford - 1890

The Milinda Panha is an ancient and much venerated book of the Buddhists, indeed regarded so highly as to be included by the Burmese in the Pali Canon. In the Pali book i... Read More
 11 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Milindapanho, being dialogues between King Milinda and the Buddhist sage Nagasena
By Vilhelm Trenckner (1824-1891)
Published by Williams and Norgate, London - 1880
In Pali

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 22 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Literary history of Sanskrit Buddhism
By G.K. Nariman
Published by India Book Depot, Bombay - 1919

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Introduction:
Buddhism rose in India and it is all but dead in India ; but the zeal of the e... Read More
 6 Jul 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
TABAQAT-I-NASIRI
By Minhaj-i-Siraj of Juzjani
Edited by W.Nassau Lees
Printed at College Press, Calcutta - 1864

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Evidence in literature suggests that in 1193, the Nalanda University was sacked ... Read More
 6 Jul 2014 Article/Essay
Article:
How history was made up at Nalanda
By Arun Shourie | June 28, 2014

“The mine of learning, honoured Nalanda” — that is how the 16th-17th century Tibetan historian, Taranath, referred to the university at Nalanda. At the time I-tsing was at the university, there were 3,700 monks. The tota... Read More
 6 Jul 2014 Rare Manuscripts
Manuscript, Asthasahasrika Prajnaparamita, palm leaf, painted, probably Nalanda monastery - ca. 1112

Seated Mahasri Tara. Illustrated palm-leaf folio from the Astasahasrikaprajnaparamita manuscript; from the Vredenburg Manuscript. According to the colophon, this manuscript was donated by a lay ... Read More
 14 Jun 2014 Rare Photographs
Lion capitals, torana beams and other sculpture fragments lying on the ground near the Great Stupa, Sanchi, Bhopal State - 1875

Photograph of lion capitals, torana beams and other sculpture fragments lying on the ground near the Great Stupa at Sanchi, from the Archaeological Survey of India Coll... Read More
 31 Dec 2013 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Trident, the Crescent, and the Cross - A view of the religious history of India during the Hindu, Buddhist, Mohammedan, and Christian periods.
By Rev. James Vaughan
Published by Longmans, Green & Co., London - 1876


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