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1. Akishige, Yoshiharu, ed.

Psychological Studies on Zen. Kyushu Psychological Studies No. V. Bulletin of the Faculty of Literature of Kyushu University No. 11. Fukuoka, Japan: The Faculty of Literature of Kyushu University, Japan, 1968. 1st Edit ion. 280pp. Small 4to. Printed cream stiff wrappers with black lettering. Name blotted from upper rear cover, else a very good copy with slight cover spotting. Uncommon. 9 papers including Akishige's "A Historical Survey of the Psychological Studies on Z en." 1 pound 6 ounces = 638 grams. 10.2 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches = 25.5 x 16 x 1.8cm. Inquire | Order$110.00

2. Anderson, Walt.

Open Secrets: A Western Guide to Tibetan Buddhism. New York: The Viking Press, [1979]. 1st Edition. [xxii]+230+[2]pp. Small 8vo. Orange cloth-backed buff boards. Small stain to front cover, embossed owner's stamp to front flyle af, else very good in edgetorn dust jacket. (OP). 1 pound 2 ounces = 522 grams. 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.0 inches = 21.5 x 14.5 x 2.5cm. Inquire | Order$12.50

3. Cheng, Chung-ying.

Tai Chên's Inquiry into Goodness. A Translation of the Yüan Shan, with an Introductory Essay. Honolulu: East-West Center Press, [1971]. 1st Edition. [ii]+[xii]+176+[2]pp. 8vo. Orange cloth with black and white s pine lettering. A very good copy in lightly worn and price-clipped dust jacket. (OP). 1 pound = 464 grams. 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches = 22 x 14.3 x 1.8cm. Inquire | Order$27.50

4. Chuang Tsu.

Inner Chapters. Translated by Gia-Fu Feng (born 1919) & Jane English (born 1942). New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, [1974]. 1st Edition of this translation, 1st Paperback printing. [viii]+161+[5]pp. 4to. Printed pictorial card covers. Upper front corner curled, else a very good copy. 1 pound 10 ounces = 754 grams. 11.1 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches = 27.7 x 21.4 x 1.4cm. Inquire | Order$7.55

5. Chun Shin-Yong, ed.

Buddhist Culture in Korea. Korean Culture Series 3. Seoul, Korea: International Cultural Foundation, [1974]. 1st Edition. 289+[3]pp. + 18 pages of half-tones. 8vo. Dark blue cloth. Light cover staining and scratching, else very good in chipped dust jacket. Six papers rendered in both English and Korean. Inquire | Order$24.95

6. Dawson, Raymond.

The Chinese Experience. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1978]. 1st American Edition. [xxvi]+318pp. + 24 pages of half-tones. 8vo. Green cloth. A very good copy in chipped pictorial dust jacket. (OP). Inquire | Order$9.95

7. Fung, Yu-Lan.

A History of Chinese Philosophy: The Period of the Philosophers (From the Beginnings to Circa 100 B.C.). Translated by Derk Bodde. Peiping: 1937. 1st Edition in English. [First published 1931 in in Shanghai by Shen Chou Pub. Co.] xx+455+[1]pp. + folding map + 28 page publisher's catalog. 4to. Printed brown stiff wrappers with printed flaps. Spine a bit wrinkled, light wear to the front joint but a pretty copy in original condition. Quite uncommon. 2 pounds 10 ounces = 1.2 kg. 10 .6 x 7.5 x 1.4 inches = 26.5 x 18.7 x 3.5cm. Inquire | Order$95.00

8. Guenther, Herbert V.

The Life and Teaching of Naropa. Translated from the Original Tibetan with a Philosophical Commentary Based on the Oral Transmission. Boston/London: Shambhala, 1986. 1st Edition by this publisher. [First published 1963 in Oxford]. xvi+292+[4]pp. 8vo. Trade paperback. Text block a bit bent, else very good. (OP). With a new brief preface for the Shambhala reprint. 14 ounces = 406 grams. 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches = 21.5 x 14 x 2.2cm. Inquir e | Order$7.95

9. Haas, William S.

The Destiny of the Mind: East and West. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956. 1st American Edition. [First published the same year in London]. 327+[1]pp. 8vo. Gray cloth with painted spine label. Very slight pencilling, else very good in edgetorn dust jacket. (OP). Inquire | Order$17.50

10. Jacobs, Hans.

Western Psychotherapy and Hindu Sadhana: A Contribution to Comparative Studies in Psychology and Metaphysics. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1961]. 1st Edition. 231+[1]pp. + 8 pages of half-tones + 4 pages of color plates. 8 vo. Rose cloth. Spine faded, else a very good copy. (OP). Inquire | Order$13.95

11. Japanese National Commission for Unesco, comp.

Philosophical Studies of Japan. Tokyo: Published by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, [1962]. 1st Edition. [vi]+149+[3]pp. 8vo. Printed gray card covers. Small stain to lower gutter of first few gatherings, else a very good copy with the Library of Congress's duplicate stamp to the front cover. Contains Goichi Miyake's "Ontological Study of History"; Hideo Kishimoto's "The Immediacy of Zen Experience and Cultural Backgound"; Shokin Fur ata's "The Development of Zen Thought in Japan"; Masaaki Kosaka's "The World and Meiji Japan"; Toshio Shigizawa's "Development of Rationalism in Ancient China"; Takezo Kaneko's "Die Freiheit als Geschenk." Inquire | Order$35.00

12. Journal of the Pali Text Society.

1882-1905. Edited by T. W. Rhyss Davids. [Delhi, India]: Caxton Publications, [1985]. 14 volumes. Reprint Edition. 8vo. Printed red boards with white lettering. Very good copies. Comprises texts and studies o n Buddhism and Pali literature; includes reports of the Pali Text Society. 9 pounds 2 ounces = 4.2 kg. 8.6 x 5.6 x 8.4 inches = 21.5 x 14 x 21cm. Inquire | Order$125.00

13. [Jung, C[arl] G[ustav] (1875-1961)].

The I Ching or Book of Changes. Translated by Cary F. Baynes (1883-1977). Foreword by C[arl] G[ustav] Jung (1875-1961). Introduction by Hellmut Wilhelm. Bollingen Series XIX. [Princeton, NJ]: Princeton Uni versity Press, [1969]. 3rd Edition in English, 7th printing. lxii+740pp. + frontis & rear folding chart. Small 8vo. Yellow cloth with painted black spine label. A very good copy in lightly worn dust jacket. As with all the Bollingen books, a handsomely p roduced volume. English translation of Richard Wilhelm's classic German version. First published in two volumes in 1950; 2nd edition 1961 (in one volume); 3rd edition reset in a new format and with added index 1967. Ress 1950d p.81. 1 pound 8 ounces = 69 6 grams. 8.2 x 5.0 x 1.4 inches = 20.5 x 12.5 x 3.5cm. Inquire | Order$12.50

14. Koestler, Arthur (1905-1983).

The Lotus and the Robot. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961. 1st American Edition. 296pp. 8vo. Black cloth. Somewhat cocked, edges of text block soiled, a good copy in worn dust jacket. (OP). With the signatur e to the flyleaf of William McGuire, the second and last editor of the Bollingen Series. Inquire | Order$25.00

15. Lao Tsu.

Tao Teh Ching. Translated by Gia-Fu Feng (born 1919) & Jane English (born 1942). New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, [1972]. 1st Edition of this translation, 1st Paperback printing. [174]pp. Unpaginated. Lavishly ill ustrated throughout. 4to. Printed decorative cream card covers. Corners curled and a bit shelfworn, else a very good copy. 1 pound 9 ounces = 725 grams. 11.0 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches = 27.5 x 21.3 x 1.4cm. Inquire | Order$15.00

16. Mookerjee, Satkari.

The Buddhist Philosophy of Universal Flux: An Exposition of the Philosophy of Critical Realism as Expounded by the School of Dignaga. Delhi, Varanasi, Patna [India]: Motilal Banarsidass, [1980]. 2nd Edition, 2nd printing. [First published 1935 by Univ. of Calcutta Press]. L+448pp. 8vo. Blue cloth. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. Inquire | Order$40.00

17. Moore, Charles A. (died 1967), ed.

Essays in East-West Philosophy: An Attempt at World Philosophical Synthesis. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1951. 1st Edition. xii+467+[1]pp. 8vo. Russet cloth with painted labels. Right margin of fir st few gatherings tide-marked, else a very good copy. (OP). Inquire | Order$22.95

18. Moore, Charles A., ed.

Philosophy -East and West. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1946. 2nd printing. [xii]+334pp. 8vo. Cream cloth. A very good copy in worn dust jacket. (OP). Includes contributions by Suzuki, Northrop, Hocking, & Moore. Inquire | Order$12.50

19. Nagarjuna, [Arya] (2nd cent. A.D.)

Madhyamaka'sastram of Nagarjuna. With the Commentaries Akutobhaya by Nagarjuna, Madhyamakavrtti by Buddhapalita, Prajnapradipavrtti by Bhavaviveka, Prasannapadavrtti by Candrakirti Critically Reconstructed. Edited by Raghunatha Pandeya. Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass, [1988]. 2 volumes. 1st Edition. xxxiv+[2]+272+[2]+[182]; [2]+xiv+296+[2]pp. 4to. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very good copies in lightly worn pictorial dust jackets. Parallel title s and prefactory materials in English and Sanskrit, text in Sanskrit and Tibetan. 6 pounds 6 ounces = 3.0 kg. 11.4 x 8.6 x 2.6 inches = 28.5 x 21.5 x 6.5cm. Inquire | Order$100.00

20. Nagarjuna, [Arya].

Nagarjuna's Letter to King Gautamiputra. With Explanatory Notes Based on Tibetan Commentaries and a Preface by His Holiness Sakya Trizin. Translated by Lozang Jamspal, Ngawang Samten Chophel, & Peter Della Santina. Delhi, V aranasi, Patna [India]: Motilal Banarsidass, [1983]. 2nd printing. [First published 1978]. xxii+118pp. + 5 inserted plates. 8vo. Black cloth. Slight spotting to cloth, else a very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. (OP). Inquire | Order$12.50

21. Radhakrishnan, S[arvepalli] (1888-1975).

Eastern Religions and Western Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press/London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1951 [this edition 1st issued 1940]. 2nd Edition, 5th printing. [First published 1939]. [ii]+[xiv]+39 6pp. 8vo. Blue-gray cloth. Slight marginal pencil lining, else a very good copy. (OP). Inquire | Order$10.00

22. Reichelt, Karl Ludvig.

Meditation and Piety in the Far East: A Religious-Psychological Study. Translation by Sverre Holth of Volume 1 of Fromhetstyper og Helligdommer i Ost-Asia, published in Oslo by Dreyers Forlag. New York: Har per & Brothers, Publishers, [1954]. 1st American Edition. [First issued in translation in 1954 in London by Billing & Sons]. 170+[2]pp. 8vo. Blue cloth. Moderate staining to upper rear board, else a very good copy. (OP). Deals with Yoga, Buddhism, Taoism , and Confucianism. Inquire | Order$24.95

23. Rhie, Marylin M. & Thurman, Robert A. F.

Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. Photographs by John Bigelow Taylor. New York: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and Tibet House, New York, in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Pub lishers, [1991]. 1st Edition, Paperback issue. 406+[2]pp. + double-page yellow endleaf maps. Illustrated with color plates throughout. 4to. Printed triple-column format. Printed pictorial card covers with gilt printing. A very good copy. 3 pounds 4 ounce s = 1.5 kg. 11.9 x 9.0 x 1.3 inches = 29.7 x 22.5 x 3.2cm. Inquire | Order$22.95

24. Roy, S. S.

The Heritage of Sankara. Allahabad, India: Udayana Publications, [1965]. 1st Edition. [xvi]+230pp. 8vo. Brown cloth. Corners lightly frayed, a very good seconhand copy with library bookplate and small withdrawn stamp to the title-p age. In edgetorn dust jacket. (OP). Inquire | Order$25.00

25. Samartha, S[tanley] J. (born 1920).

Introduction to Radhakrishnan: The Man and His Thought. Association Press, [1964]. 1st Edition. 127+[1]pp. Small 8vo. Beige cloth. A very good copy in dust jacket. (OP). 8 ounces = 232 grams. 8.0 x 5.4 x 0. 5 inches = 20 x 13.5 x 1.2cm. Inquire | Order$15.95

26. Schilpp, Paul Arthur, ed.

The Philosophy of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Library of Living Philosophers Volume VIII. New York: Tudor Publishing Company, [1952]. 1st Edition. [xvi]+884pp. + 2 plates. Thick 8vo. Tan cloth. A very good copy in chip ped dust jacket. (OP). 2 pounds 12 ounces = 1.3 kg. 9.6 x 6.4 x 2.2 inches = 24 x 16 x 5.5cm. Inquire | Order$25. 00

27. Gampopa [= Sgam-po-pa] (1079-1153).

The Perfection of Wisdom: The Seventeenth Chapter from "The Precious Jewel Ornament of Liberation of the True Dharma which is like a Wish-Fulfilling Gem." Revised translation, an earlier version of which wa s printed in 1981 in an edition of 100 copies. Translated by Zopa David Labinger. Kathmandu, Nepal: Marpa Institute of Translation, [1987]. 2nd Edition of this translation. [5]+iii+[1]+41+[2]pp. Thin 8vo. Printed lightly decorative gray card covers, sadd le-stitched. Corners curled, else very good. Uncommon. Not in OCLC. 4 ounces = 116 grams. 8.4 x 6.2 x 0.2 inches = 21 x 15.5 x 0.5cm. Inquire | Order$30.00

28. Sinha, Jadunath.

Indian Psychology Volume 2: Emotion and Will. Calcutta: Sinha Publishing House, 1961. 1st Edition. xvi+568pp. 8vo. Panelled green cloth. A very good copy in dust jacket. (OP). Volume 1 (Cognition) was published separately. Inquire | Order$30.00

29. Suzuki, Daisetz T[eitaro] (1870-1966).

The Essentials of Zen Buddhism: An Anthology of the Writings of Daisetz T. Suzuki. Edited with Introduction by Bernard Phillips. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1962. 1st Edition. [xlii]+544+[6]pp. 8 vo. Ochre cloth. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. (OP). Includes a biographical sketch of Suzuki. Inquire | Orde r$35.00

30. Taranatha, Jo-nan-pa (born 1575).

The Golden Rosary of Tara. [Introduction, Translation and Notes from the Tibetan by Vajranatha -- John (Myrdin) Reynolds]. Preface by Namkhai Norbu (born 1938). Arcidosso (Gr) [Italy]: Shang-Shung Edizioni, [ 1985]. 1st Edition. 60pp. A few text illustrations. Thin 8vo. Printed pictorial aqua card covers, saddle-stitched. A very good copy. Uncommon. OCLC locates only one copy, at Univ California, Santa Barbara. 3 ounces = 87 grams. 8.8 x 6.1 x 0.2 inches = 22 x 15.3 x 0.5cm. Inquire | Order$30.00

31. Trungpa, Chögyam (1940-1987).

Born in Tibet. As told to Esmé Cramer Roberts. Foreword by Marco Pallis. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1977. 1st printing. [First published 1966 in London]. 280pp. + 16 illustrations on 8 inserted leaves. 7 text figure s. 8vo. Trade paperback. A very good copy. (OP). Third edition with new epilogue and 4 added illustrations. 14 ounces = 406 grams. 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches = 21.3 x 13.8 x 1.5cm. Inquire | Order$7.65

32. Wang, Keping (born 1955).

The Classic of the Dao: A New Investigation. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, [1998]. 1st Edition. [8]+iv+322+[2]pp. 8vo. Printed decorative card covers with folding flaps. A near fine copy. 14 ounces = 406 grams. 8 .0 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches = 20 x 14 x 1.7cm. Inscribed on the front blank to Michael Holquist, President in 2006 of the MLA, signed and dated Beijing, 7-8-2001. Inquire | Order$16.85

33. Watts, Alan [Wilson] (1915-1973).

Tao: The Watercourse Way. Additional caligraphy by Lee Chih-chang. In collaboration with Al Chung-Liang Huang. New York: Pantheon Books, A Division of Random House, [1975]. 1st Edition. xxvi+134pp. 8vo. Embos sed cream cloth with black spine lettering. A very good copy in lightly worn dust jacket. (OP). 1 pound 2 ounces = 522 grams. 9.5 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches = 23.8 x 15.5 x 1.5cm. Inquire | Order$10.00

34. Wayman, Alex.

Buddhist Insight. Edited by George Elder. Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, [1990]. 2nd printing. [First published 1984]. [viii]+470+[2]pp. 8vo. Scarlet cloth. Front hinge cracked, else very good in dust jacket. Inquire | Order$14.95

35. Yeshe De Research Project.

Light of Liberation: A History of Buddhism in India. [Edited by Elizabeth Cook]. Crystal Mirror Series 8. [Berkeley]: Dharma Publishing, [1992]. 1st Edition. [iv]+[xxvi]+ 446+[12]pp. + color frontis. 38 full page ma ps and text illustations. Large 8vo. Printed stiff pictorial blue wrappers. A very good copy. (OP). Inquire | Order$30.00

36. Zimmer, Heinrich (1890-1943).

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization. Edited by Joseph Campbell (1904-1992?) Bollingen Series Volume VI. New York: Pergamon Press, [1946]. 1st Edition. xiii+[1]+248+[2]pp. + 70 figures on 16 inserted plate leaves. 8vo. Black cloth-backed green cloth-covered boards with gilt front cover device and gilt spine lettering. A very good copy. 1 pound 5 ounces = 609 grams. 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches = 23.2 x 15.5 x 2.8cm. In quire | Order$50.00

37. Zimmer, Heinrich.

Der Weg zum Selbst: Lehre und Leben des indischen Heiligen Shri Ramana Maharshi aus Tiruvannamalai. Herausgegeben von C[arl] G[ustav] Jung (1875-1961). Zürich: Rascher Verlag, 1944. 1st Edition. 262+[2]pp. + 4 photographic p ortraits. 8vo. Printed blue-gray cloth with gilt lettering and inset red front label. Spine and edges faded, a good plus copy with some foxing to the front leaves and wear to the lower corners. 1 pound 3 ounces = 551 grams. 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches = 23.5 x 16 x 3cm. William McGuire's copy, signed on the front flyleaf. McGuire was the second and last editor of the Bollingen Series. Inquire | Order$20.00