Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Magic and Mystery in Tibet
HardcoverOriginal price $41.95Original price $41.95 - Original price $41.95Original price $41.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Experiences among lamas, magicians, sages, sorcerers, Bonpa wizards. A true psychic discovery. 32 illus. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781585095650 ...
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The Lotus Sutra
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Since its appearance in China in the third century, The Lotus Sutra has been regarded as one of the most illustrious scriptures in the Mahayana B...
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Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This uniquely contemporary guide to understanding the timeless message of Buddhism, and in particular its relevance in actual human relations, wa...
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Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Buddhist Master Hongzhi
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Cultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch'an master Hongzhi's Extensive Record. First to articulate the medit...
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Zen and Japanese Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen’s influenc...
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Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Originally published in 1976, Leon Hurvitz's monumental translation of the Lotus Sutra is the work scholars have preferred for decades. Hailed by...
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Sources of Vietnamese Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Sources of Vietnamese Tradition provides an essential guide to two thousand years of Vietnamese history and a comprehensive overview of the socie...
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Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism
PaperbackOriginal price $48.00 - Original price $48.00Original price $48.00$64.99$64.99 - $64.99Current price $64.99| /The most influential work on Buddhism to be published in the nineteenth century, Introduction à l'histoire du Buddhisme indien, by the great Fren...
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New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism: Institution, Gender, and Secular Society
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Offers alternative approaches to the study of colonial and postcolonial Korean Buddhism, suggesting new directions for scholarship.Product DetailsI...
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What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This comprehensive, compact, lucid, and faithful account of the Buddha's teachings persistently enjoys great popularity in colleges, universities, ...
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Flight of the Bön Monks: War, Persecution, and the Salvation of Tibet's Oldest Religion
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An inside account of the Chinese invasion of Tibet told through the voices of three persecuted monks - Shares the true story of three monks' heroic...
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Old Lhasa: A Biography
HardcoverOriginal price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /"Brings you closer to the real spirit of Lhasa"-Dr. Lobsang Sangay, President, Tibetan Government in ExileThe most comprehensive account of the fab...
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Old Lhasa: A Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /"Brings you closer to the real spirit of Lhasa"-Dr. Lobsang Sangay, President, Tibetan Government in ExileThe most comprehensive account of the fab...
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Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /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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Introduction to Buddhist East Asia
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Offers a variety of pedagogical and theoretical essays designed to assist professors in introducing undergraduate students to Buddhism in China, Ko...
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Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In 1995, the People's Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identif...
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Engaged Buddhism in Japan, volume 1: An Engaged Buddhist History of Japan from the Ancient to the Modern
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /This volume is the culmination of sixteen years of research and engagement in the growing Socially Engaged Buddhist movement of Japan. Volume I pro...
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The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The Mongols, their khans, and the empire they built and ruled in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries exert an enduring fascination. Caricatured...
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In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Animals play crucial roles in Buddhist thought and practice. However, many symbolically or culturally significant animals found in India, where Bud...
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Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten...
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Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten...
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Living Theravada: Demystifying the People, Places, and Practices of a Buddhist Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An illuminating introduction to the contemporary world of Theravada Buddhism and its rich culture and practices in modern mainland Southeast Asia. ...
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Salvaging Buddhism to Save Confucianism in Choson Korea (1392-1910)
HardcoverOriginal price $109.99 - Original price $109.99Original price $109.99$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Buddhism shaped the development of Korea after its introduction in the fourth century. It influenced culture, politics, and intellectual life, and ...
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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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