How did early Buddhists actually encounter the seminal texts of their religion? What were the attitudes held by monks and laypeople toward the written and oral Pali traditions? In this pioneering w…
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are imag…
RARE collection of papers on Pali grammar and lexicography by the eminent Indologist Oskar von Hinüber (b.1939), formerly Professor of Indology at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. This collec…
The find of numerous Buddhist Manuscripts in Prakrit, Sanskrit, Ugers, Tokhania, Sogdian & also in other dialects from Central Asia have opened up a new chapter in the history of Buddhism & Buddhis…
Originally published in 1916. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles …
pt. 1. Critical edition pt. 2. Diplomatic edition / with a manuscript description by Anne MacDonald.
The preservation of manuscripts follows traditional as well as modern methods, which are scientific and preserve documents for further use. In the traditional system of preservation, herbals are us…
Buddhism is a subject of absorbing interest to student of comparative religions, ethics, history and social philosophy. Its historical foundations have been discussed by Senart, Oldenberg and C.A.F…
The present book collects various research papers by Bhikkhu Analayo with translations of Madhyama-agama discourses and a comparative study of their Pali parallels, together with a brief discussion…
This book describes the Buddhism of India on the basis of the comparison of all the available original sources in various languages. It falls into three approximately equal parts. The first is a re…
When P.V. Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh launched India's "Look East" policy, it was only the first stage of the strategy to foster economic and security cooperation with the United States. But "…
“Life of the Buddha” (Buddhacarita) was composed by a Buddhist monk named Ashva·ghosha in the first or second century CE probably in the north-central Indian city of Ayódhya. This text is the…
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the di…