The Reader by A. A. Macdonell is meant to be a companion volume to his Vedic Grammer for Students. It contains thirty hymns selected from the Rgveda primarily for students who while acquainted with…
This new edition of the Collins COBUILD Compact Learner,s Dictionary contains all the words and meanings the intermediate learner needs to know to use English naturally and confidently. The Collins…
1845. Conducted through the press by H.H. Wilson. Bopp, German philologist, conducted research in many languages and earned a great reputation as a scholar by demonstrating the relationship of the …
Providing an introduction to textual analysis, starting from the most basic philosophical foundations that underlie the practice Alan McKee works through the core issues step-by-step, drawing on ex…
Originating in India, Mahayana Buddhism spread across Asia, becoming the prevalent form of Buddhism in Tibet and East Asia. Over the last twenty-five years Western interest in Mahayana has increase…
In this study of the social and psychological implications of literacy, sixteen distinguished scholars provide a sustained and detailed examination of the relations between orality and literacy, th…
What role has writing played in the development of our modern understanding of language, nature, and ourselves? In the historical and developmental account, David Olson offers a new perspective on …
This textbook provides an introduction to pragmatics from the point of view of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. The first part lays down the foundations of a relevance theoretic approach to u…
Through 18 chapters and 60,000 Chinese characters, Chinese Calligraphy gives details on topics of calligraphy such as its history and evolution, the calligraphic strokes for characters, and biograp…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work…
In his lavishly illustrated new study, Henry Ginsburg describes a wide range of Thai manuscripts and other documents in European and North American collections, discussing each in its religious and…
One of the best loved and most hallowed and historic Buddhist shrines in Sri Lanka, the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihatraya is a unique treasure of epic Buddhist art of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twen…
total 181 pages, English translations with color pictures Traditional Chinese painting was fundamentally an abstract art form. Although there were no absolute abstract Chinese painting in its origi…
The Dhammapada is one of the most popular and accessible books of Buddhist scripture. Undoubtedly one of the greatest teachers in history, the Buddha has had an immeasurable influence on the human …
English and Sanskrit; prefatory matter in English.rnVol. 2 has title: Citrakarmaśāstra / ascribed to Mañjūśrī.rnVerse work, with English translation, on the Buddhist monastic architectu…