This is a pocket-sized, information-packed and entertaining guide that has been compiled on the basis of long experience in helping people produce documents written in good English, with the underl…
Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Mi…
Ideal for courses in beginning Sanskrit or self-study, this textbook employs modern, tried-and-tested pedagogical methods and tools, but requires no prior knowledge of ancient languages or linguist…
From Library JournalrnPrebish (religious studies, Pennsylvania State Univ.), the author of numerous titles on Buddhism, narrows his dictionary topics to significant persons, places, texts, events, …
The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty dese…
Drawing on the latest research and scholarship, this newly revised and updated edition of€Religions of the Silk Road explores the majestically fabled cities and exotic peoples that€make up€th…
Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-106)
The book is an encyclopaedia of the Sakyan history in which Sakyamuni Gautama Buddha was born. It traces the roots of the Sakyan clan in the perspective of history, ethnography, anthropology, archa…