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Buddhacarita; or Acts of the Buddha in Three Parts
by Johnston, Elgin H. / Asvaghosa
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0895811286
- ISBN 13
- 9780895811288
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Delhi Madras: Motilal Banarsidass, 1984. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Octavo. xxii + 165 pp + xcviii + 232 pp + 130 pp. Part I: Sanskrit text of Cantos I - XIV; Appendix: The Buddhacarita and the Fo pen hsing chi ching; Part II: Cantos i-xiv translated from the original Sanskrit supplemented from the Tibetan version (together with an Introduction and Notes); Part III: CAntos XV to XXVIII translated from the Chinese and Tibetan versions. footnotes throughout. 5.8" x 8.7" black cloth boards, gilt spine letters. Binding tight, front signature protrudes slightly, 10 or so pages with sparse printer's ink smudges, all text legible, else pages clean and paper well-preserved. Exterior VG+. Unclipped lavender DJ with edgewear, wrinkling, handles nicely in acetate protector. .
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008718
- Title
- Buddhacarita; or Acts of the Buddha in Three Parts
- Author
- Johnston, Elgin H. / Asvaghosa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Revised and Enlarged Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0895811286
- ISBN 13
- 9780895811288
- Publisher
- Motilal Banarsidass
- Place of Publication
- Delhi Madras
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Asvaghosa - India -2nd century Buddhist Indian poet and philosopher - Buddhacharita
- Bookseller catalogs
- RELIGION;
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...