Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sac...
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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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Christianity Remade: The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches
HardcoverOriginal price $54.99 - Original price $54.99Original price $54.99$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /If there is one question that haunts Indian Christians, it is this: "What does it mean to be Indian and Christian?" This matter of identity present...
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In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians: A Story of Suppression, Secrecy and Survival
HardcoverOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The story of Japan's hidden Christians is the subject of a major motion picture by director Martin Scorsese, based on Shusaku Endo's famous novel, ...
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Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /From the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil's Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped th...
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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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The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /From the stunning victory at Pearl Harbor to its dramatic reversal at Midway, the Imperial Japanese Navy swept all before it in its numerous victor...
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A Prehistory of Hinduism
HardcoverOriginal price $46.99 - Original price $46.99Original price $46.99$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /This book is a pioneering attempt to understand the prehistory of Hinduism in South Asia. Exploring religious processes in the Deccan region betwee...
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Singing with the Mountains: The Language of God in the Afghan Highlands
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /An illuminating story of a Sufi community that sought the revelation of God.In the Afghan highlands of the sixteenth century, the messianic commu...
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»We Are Here to Stay«: Pashtun Migrants in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
PaperbackOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Drawing primarily on oral sources from the author's own research carried out between 1993 and 1997, this book outlines the settlement history of Pa...
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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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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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The Last Steam Railways: Volume 1: The People's Republic of China
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95Original price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95Current price $64.99$64.99 - $64.99Current price $64.99| /A spectacular, historical perspective and photographic gallery of the last working steam railways in China-the world's largest major concentration ...
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Visions of Salvation: Chinese Christian Posters in an Age of Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $69.99 - Original price $69.99Original price $69.99$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /Between the May Fourth Movement of 1919 and the Communist Revolution of 1949, Chinese Christians had to compete with Nationalist and Communist ideo...
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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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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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A History of Japan in Manga: Samurai, Shoguns and World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The entire fascinating story of Japan told in one exciting manga-style volume! A History of Japan in Manga tells the action-packed saga of Japan fr...
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