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‎Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale Précédées de considérations générales sur les premiers hommages rendus au Créteur" sur la corruption de la religion, l'établissement des cultes du solieil, de la lune, des p... - [THE FIRST WESTERN BOOK ON BUDDHISM]‎

‎Paris, Brunot-Labbe, 1817. 8vo. Completely uncut in later, simple paper-wrappers. Light dusting to first and last leaf and only light occasional brownspotting. Overall a magnificent anf fresh copy, on good paper, and completely uncut.‎

‎Scarce first edition of the first Western book about Buddhism and Buddha. ""Although the Western encounter with Asia's largest religion may be the vastest and most consequential spiritual encounter in human history, its protagonists and historical development are still barely known. Thus it comes as no surprise that even specialists have hitherto failed to appreciate the earliest Western book about Buddhism: Michel-Jean-François Ozeray's Recherches ""Sur Buddou ou Bouddou, Instituteur religieux de l'Asie Orientale"" (Paris, 1817)."" (from the review of Urs App's edition of the work from 1917).To commemorate Ozeray's groundbreaking work, an edition of it was published for its 200th anniversary, in 2017, with French-English parallel-text (the translation by Urs App). It is this edition that has made the book famous and re-introduced it as the pioneering classic that it is. ""In his 73-page introduction App presents and analyzes Ozeray's view of Buddhism and its founder. Tracing the author's main sources, he explains why his book deserves to be recognized as a pioneering contribution to Western knowledge about Buddhism and to global-scale comparative religion. Published just before the onset of academic research on Buddhism in Europe, Ozeray's work relied not on Christian missionary literature or romantic speculation but rather on figurative representations and reports furnished by ambassadors, travelers, and long-time residents in Asian countries. Due to its focus on living Buddhism as practised in numerous Asian countries, Ozeray's pioneering study is-in spite of its inevitable flaws-in many respects more congruent with modern field work than the majority of popular books on Buddhism that bend the spiritualism and esotericism shelves in today's bookstores.""‎

‎Guruge A.W.P. From the Living Fountains of Buddhism From the Living Fountains of‎

‎Guruge A.W.P. From the Living Fountains of Buddhism From the Living Fountains of Buddhism. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Guruge A.W.P. From the living fountains of Buddhism Iz zhivykh fontanov buddizma. Colombo MCA. 1984. 478 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbc22dd47701c378ae‎

‎Buddhism in China. In English (ask us if in doubt)/Buddhism in China.‎

‎Buddhism in China. In English (ask us if in doubt)/Buddhism in China.Edited by the Chinese Buddhist Association. Text in English and Chinese. Peking. Nationalities publishing house. 1955. 4 l.. SKUalb60a6bdb02ee323f7.‎

‎Buddhism & Science. Translated from the German by the Bhikkhu Silacara.‎

‎London, Macmillan, 1913, gr. in-8°, XII + 256 p., untrimmed, cloth binding.‎

‎Out of eleven chapters: Faith and a world theory / Buddhism and the problem of physics / Buddhism and the problem of biology / Buddhism and the cosmological problem. ‎

‎THE BUDDHIST CONQUEST OF CHINA, the Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China (Ouvrage en langue anglaise).‎

‎ E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1959.‎

‎Un volume in 12° (14,5 x21 cm) ; reliure rigide éditeur toilée de couleur beige avec indication ecrites (auteur, titre etc.) en lettres argentées. L’ouvrage compte 468 pages dont 320 de Texte et 168 de Notes. (320 pages of text and 168 pages of Notes), Bibliography and Indexes. La PARTIE TEXTE est composée comme suit:Préface(p.XI), CHAPTER ONE: Introductory , Remarks (p.1), CHPTER TWO: An historical survey from the first to the beginning of the fourth century AD: I Han Buddhism, II The preiod of the three kingdoms (220-265/280), III the Western Chin (265-317 AD)(p.18). CHAPTER THREE: Buddhism at Chienk'ang and in the South-East ca 320-420 (p.81). Introductory Remarks(p.81). The First Phases (ca 310-346). The secondPhase (ca 346-402). The Last Phase: Huan Hsuan's usurpation and the rise of LIU YU (402-420 AD) Appendix A, Appendix B et Appendix C. (p.177). CHAPTER FOUR: The centre at Hsiang-yang, Chiang-Ling and Lu-shan, and the influence of Northern Buddhism. CHAPTER FIVE : "In the defense of faith", anti-clericalism and Buddhist apologetic in the fourth and early century. Appendix: The Chou-shu i-chi and the original Chu-shu-nien (p. 286). CHAPTER SIX: "The Conversion of the barbarians", the early history of a buddho-taoist conflict (p.288).La PARTIE NOTES comprend 120 pages de notes relatives à chacun des six chapitres de texte (p.321). On trouve ensuite la Bibliographie (p.447), puis un Index of chinese names and terms (p.360). Et un index of names and terms other than chinese (p.468).On trouve en fin de volume, collé au revers du 4ème plat, le tirage à part d’un texte de Paul DEMIEVILLE relatif à au présent ouvrage (THE BUDDHIST CONQUEST OF CHINA). “C’est donc une histoire complète du bouddhisme chinois depuis les origines jusque vers la fin du IVème siècle que nous présente M. ZURCHER, et je ne sache pas qu’il en existe de meilleure non seulement en Occident, mais même au Japon sinon en Chine; celle de T’ang Yong-t’ong est peut-être plus abondante, je ne pense pas qu’elle soit plus sûre ni mieux construite”...L’opinion de Paul DEMIEVILLE, très grand spécialiste et connaisseur de la CHINE, est particulièrement intéressante. Exemplaire toujours muni de sa jaquette, portant quel ques marques discrètes d’usage, mais en Bon état‎