‎Professor Paul Williams‎
‎Buddhism‎

‎Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale Précédées de considérations générales sur les premiers hommages rendus au Créteur" sur la corruption de la religion, l'établissement des cultes du solieil, de la lune, des p... - [THE FIRST WESTERN BOOK ON BUDDHISM]‎

‎Paris, Brunot-Labbe, 1817. 8vo. Completely uncut in later, simple paper-wrappers. Light dusting to first and last leaf and only light occasional brownspotting. Overall a magnificent anf fresh copy, on good paper, and completely uncut.‎

‎Scarce first edition of the first Western book about Buddhism and Buddha. ""Although the Western encounter with Asia's largest religion may be the vastest and most consequential spiritual encounter in human history, its protagonists and historical development are still barely known. Thus it comes as no surprise that even specialists have hitherto failed to appreciate the earliest Western book about Buddhism: Michel-Jean-François Ozeray's Recherches ""Sur Buddou ou Bouddou, Instituteur religieux de l'Asie Orientale"" (Paris, 1817)."" (from the review of Urs App's edition of the work from 1917).To commemorate Ozeray's groundbreaking work, an edition of it was published for its 200th anniversary, in 2017, with French-English parallel-text (the translation by Urs App). It is this edition that has made the book famous and re-introduced it as the pioneering classic that it is. ""In his 73-page introduction App presents and analyzes Ozeray's view of Buddhism and its founder. Tracing the author's main sources, he explains why his book deserves to be recognized as a pioneering contribution to Western knowledge about Buddhism and to global-scale comparative religion. Published just before the onset of academic research on Buddhism in Europe, Ozeray's work relied not on Christian missionary literature or romantic speculation but rather on figurative representations and reports furnished by ambassadors, travelers, and long-time residents in Asian countries. Due to its focus on living Buddhism as practised in numerous Asian countries, Ozeray's pioneering study is-in spite of its inevitable flaws-in many respects more congruent with modern field work than the majority of popular books on Buddhism that bend the spiritualism and esotericism shelves in today's bookstores.""‎

‎Guruge A.W.P. From the Living Fountains of Buddhism From the Living Fountains of‎

‎Guruge A.W.P. From the Living Fountains of Buddhism From the Living Fountains of Buddhism. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Guruge A.W.P. From the living fountains of Buddhism Iz zhivykh fontanov buddizma. Colombo MCA. 1984. 478 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbc22dd47701c378ae‎

‎Buddhism in China. In English (ask us if in doubt)/Buddhism in China.‎

‎Buddhism in China. In English (ask us if in doubt)/Buddhism in China.Edited by the Chinese Buddhist Association. Text in English and Chinese. Peking. Nationalities publishing house. 1955. 4 l.. SKUalb60a6bdb02ee323f7.‎

‎Buddhism & Science. Translated from the German by the Bhikkhu Silacara.‎

‎London, Macmillan, 1913, gr. in-8°, XII + 256 p., untrimmed, cloth binding.‎

‎Out of eleven chapters: Faith and a world theory / Buddhism and the problem of physics / Buddhism and the problem of biology / Buddhism and the cosmological problem. ‎

‎T.W. Rice-Davids. Translated by M.E. Gunsburg. Buddhism: An Essay on the Life an‎

‎T.W. Rice-Davids. Translated by M.E. Gunsburg. Buddhism: An Essay on the Life and Teachings of Gautama Buddha. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/T.V. Ris-Devids. Perevod M.E. Gyunsburga. Buddizm: Ocherk zhizni i ucheniy Gautamy Buddy. Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).Its author Thomas William Rees-Davids (1843-1922) is a famous British archaeologist religious scholar researcher of languages and literature of ancient India popularizer of Buddhism. In 1881 Rhys-Davids founded the Society of Palian Texts a Buddhist-oriented educational organization in the United Kingdom. Professor T. W. Rees-Davids's book is a retelling of six lectures he gave in different American cities between 1894 and 1895 at the invitation of the American Committee for Readings on the History of Religions. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbb35f05ee67930821‎