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…
Since the time of the Upanishads, the Indian tradition of semantic elucidation known as nirvacana analysis has been a powerful tool in the interpretation of Sanskrit texts. By drawing on the approp…
Kachchāyanas grammar, book VI, "On verbs," is an English translation, and in Pali printed in Sinhalse characters, with introduction on the relations of Pali to Sanskrit, appendix, notes, etc.
he "Twenty Verses on Manifestation-Only" of the Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu (c. 350-430?), his Vimsika, is one of the most important treatises of the Yogacara school. Accompanied by the …
The first group of books entitled Sanskrit is Fun (Parts I-III) introduce the learners to the Devanagari alphabets, grouping the letters according to their place of articulation, called Family , wh…
"This book identifies what is meant by sati (smrti), usually translated as "mindfulness," in early Buddhism, and examines its soteriological functions and its central role in the early Buddhist pra…
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…
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 …
Otto Bohtlingk was one of the greatest, it not the greatest Indologists of the nineteenth century. This was Bohtlingk's first publication which appeared in 1839-40 in two volumes. The present editi…
The “Garland of the Buddha’s Past Lives” is a collection of thirty four stories depicting the miraculous deeds performed by the Buddha in his previous rebirths. Composed in the fourth century…
Leopold is delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not…
Divine Stories is the inaugural volume in a landmark translation series devoted to making the wealth of classical Indian Buddhism accessible to modern readers. The stories here, among the first tex…
Sanskrit text; translation in English; prefatory matter in English and Chinese At head of title: China Tibetology Research Center. Asien-Afrika-Institut (University of Hamburg) CIP and colophon i…
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.-- University of Pune)rnIncludes bibliographical references (p. [422]-428).rnIncludes passages in Pali and Sanskrit (pali and Sanskrit in roman).