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Tantra Song: Tantric Painting from Rajasthan
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A revelatory volume on an occluded genre of Indian art, Tantra Song is a convergence of East and West, the spiritual and the aesthetic, the ancien...
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Beyond the House of the False Lama: Travels with Monks, Nomads, and Outlaws
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Beyond the House of the Lama, now in paperback, traces Crane's adventures as a writer, wanderer, and anarchic but still failing student of Zen. It ...
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Freedom in Exile - Reissue
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Some believe him to be a living reincarnation of the Buddha; some despise him as a counterrevolutionary. He has charmed Hollywood celebrities and t...
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Envisioning a Tibetan Luminary: The Life of a Modern Bönpo Saint
PaperbackOriginal price $45.99 - Original price $45.99Original price $45.99$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Envisioning a Tibetan Luminary examines the religious biography of Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1934), the most significant modern figure represent...
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Heart of Buddha, Heart of China: The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth Century Monk
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The Buddhist monk Tanxu surmounted extraordinary obstacles--poverty, wars, famine, and foreign occupation--to become one of the most prominent monk...
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Theos Bernard, the White Lama: Tibet, Yoga, and American Religious Life
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In 1937, Theos Casimir Bernard (1908-1947), the self-proclaimed "White Lama," became the third American in history to reach Lhasa, the capital city...
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A Journey in Ladakh: Encounters with Buddhism
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Now considered a classic among readers interested in Tibetan Buddhism and pilgrimages of the spirit of all kinds, A Journey in Ladakh is Andrew Har...
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My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he desc...
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Are We Not There Yet? Travels in Nepal, North India, and Bhutan
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /A college professor travels with thirteen college students through the Himalayas for four months.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780982354209 Media Type: ...
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Keeping the Dalai Lama Waiting & Other Stories: An English Woman's Journey to Becoming a Buddhist Lama
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /How does an English, Christian girl grow up to be an acclaimed Tibetan Buddhist Lama? It was a search for Truth and a deep wish to understand the m...
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The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: A Complete Translation of the Anguttara Nikaya
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00Original price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00Current price $67.99$67.99 - $67.99Current price $67.99| /Discover with the original teachings of the Buddha in this thorough translation of some of the oldest Buddhist texts in the world. Like the Rive...
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Seven Years in Tibet
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The astonishing adventure classic about life in Tibet just before the Chinese Communist takeover is now repackaged for a new generation of readers....
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Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, d...
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The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first d...
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Buddhism: A Journey Through Art
HardcoverOriginal price $59.95Original price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /A groundbreaking and lavishly-illustrated chronicle of Buddhist art and artefacts from the first century to the present, accompanied by stunning ph...
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The Buddha: A Storied Life
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Retellings of the Buddha's life story have animated and sustained Buddhist thought and practice through some 2,500 years of history. To this day, B...
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Introduction to Buddhist East Asia
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Robert H. Scott is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Georgia. His previous books include The Significance of Indetermina...
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Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political ag...
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The Way of Ch'an: Essential Texts of the Original Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This sweeping collection of new translations paints a brilliant picture of the development of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism, China's most radical philosophi...
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Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In July 1813, a young American couple from Boston arrived in Rangoon to preach the gospel. Celebrated in the Protestant press, which ran dramatic a...
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Early Buddhist Society: The World of Gautama Buddha
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /A richly scholarly yet accessible and imaginative account of society in the time of the Buddha.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781438491226 Media Type: Pa...
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New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism: Institution, Gender, and Secular Society
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Offers alternative approaches to the study of colonial and postcolonial Korean Buddhism, suggesting new directions for scholarship.Product DetailsI...
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The Kings of Buddhism: Power, Religion, and Fury in Myanmar
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /The Kings of Buddhism explores the consequences of state regulation and protection of a country's majority religion. Sterken argues that religious ...
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Eternal Transience, Enlightened Wisdom: Masterpieces of Buddhist Art
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A collection of sixth- to nineteenth-century Tibetan Buddhist bronze statues from Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, and Mongolia. Eternal Transience, Enlight...
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