Taimitsu no Kenkyu: Investigating the Secret, The formation of Esoteric Buddhism and problems in the Chinese Tiantai and Japanese Tendai schools
Tokyo: Sobunsha, 1988. Hardcover. Cloth in slipcase, near fine copy. Text in Japanese, 661, 36, 12 pp.
East Asian Buddhism and Related
Scholarly books on the history of Buddhism in East Asia, mainly in Chinese and Japanese, very uncommon in commerce.
Huayan si xiang shi / History of Huayan Thought
Tokyo: Shuppan, 1945. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth, light wear, very good. Text in Japanese. The Huayan or Flower Garland school of Buddhism is a tradition of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy that first flourished in China during the Tang dynasty.
Kegon to Zen to no tsuro / The passage between Huawei and Zen
Nara: Nanto Bukkyo Kenkyukai, 1956. Hardcover. Cloth in slipcase, very good. 276 pp. Text in Japanese.
Tendai kyogaku to hongakushiso / Tendai Scholarship and True Thought
Kyoto: Hozokan, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in slipcase, near fine, slight soil and wear to slipcase. 356 pp, text in Japanese.
Jikaku Daishi Den: The Biography of Jikaku Daishi Ennin
Tokyo: Sankibo Busshorin, ; ISBN:, 1992. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1992. Cloth hardcover in printed card slipcase, 181 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good+ slipcase, small name-sticker on the front pastedown, light soiling or wear to the book's spine, some soiling and discoloration to the.....
Shina Bukkyo-shi Kowa, Vol. 1 & 2 / Lectures on the History of the Chinese People
Tokyo: Koritsu, 1927-1929. Hardcover. 2 volumes, Exlibrary Columbia University, we hope properly withdrawn. Library cloth, pocket, a few stamps, clean text. 2 volumes, text in Japanese.
The Lotus Sutra and Chinese Buddhism (text in Japanese)
Kyoto: Keirakuji Shoten, 1972. Hardcover. Cloth in slipcase, very good, light spottiness to cloth, slipcase tanned and spotted. Title page and contents in English, the rest in Japanese.
Dacheng Qixinlun, Tibetan narration on the Mahayana Beginnings of Faith
Taibei: Wenfeng Publishing Co., 1970s? Hardcover. Small quarto, cloth, very good, text in Chinese, 500 pp.
Sodai Bukkyo no Kenkyu: Gensho no Jodokyo / Study of Song Dynasty Buddhism: Pure Land Buddhism of Mototeru
Tokyo: Sankibo Busshorin, 2001. Hardcover. Cloth in slipcase, about fine copy. 552, 13 pp, text in Japanese.
Shoki no Zen Shi, Vol. 2 / Early Zen History & Glossary
Tokyo: Chikuma, 1971. Hardcover. Cloth in slipcase, inner hinges a little shaken and cracked, else very good.
Zen no Goroku Yanagida Kiyoshi san Shoki no Zen-shi... / Zen Glossary, Early Zen History
Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1976. Hardcover. Cloth in slipcase, very good, text in Japanese.
Living Images: Japanese Buddhist Icons in Context
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 2001, hardcover with white cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 266pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ VG+ with small closed tear to top rear panel.....
Chugoku Bukkyoshi / History of Chinese Buddhism
Tokyo: Daigaku Shuppankai, 2002. Hardcover. Part of a larger set on Buddhism, but complete in itself. Cloth in slipcase, fine. Later printing of original 1990 edition. 462, 17 pp, text in Japanese.
Shin Chugoku bukkyo-shi / New Chinese Buddhist History
Tokyo: Shuppansha, 2001. Paperback. Text in Japanese. 8vo, wraps, very good. 312 pp.
Daruma no Kenkyu / Daruma Research
Tokyo: Iwanami, 1987. Hardcover. Later printing. Cloth in slipcase. Text in Japanese. VG.
Tendai Shikan no Kenkyu / Tendai Studies
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1969. Hardcover. Cloth in slipcase, light wear, slipcase a bit worn and yellowed. 402, 30 pp. Text in Japanese.
Chugoku Jodo Kyorishi / Chinese Jodo Doctrine History
Kyoto: Hozokan, 1978. Hardcover. Cloth in slipcase, very good, text in Japanese. 548 pp.
Chugoku Nihon Futsu-sei Shiso-shi / History of Chinese and Japanese Buddhist Thought
Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth in slipcase, very good. Text in Japanese. 446, 31 pp.
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Zhongguo Shan Zong Shi / [Zhongguo Chanzong Shi] History of Chinese Zen
Nanchang: Jiang xi ren min chu ban she, 1999. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, 346 pp, text in Chinese.
A Compilation Study of the Fa-Hua-Wen-Chu
Tokyo: Shunju-Sha, 1985. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear. Tien-Tai studies of the Lotus Sutra. Text in Japanese.
Tiantai Zhizhe yan jiu, jian lun zong pai fo jiao de xing qi / Research on Tendai (Tiantai) Wisdom and the Rise of Sect Buddhism
Beijing: Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2003. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, minor wear. 289 pp, text in Chinese.
Kanze onsei o kagiri ni
Tokyo: Sairiyuji, 1995. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, cloth, 81 pp, poetry illustrated with photographs. Later edition.
International Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 1 Part 1, Jan. 2004
Cambridge University Press, 2004. Paperback. Tall 8vo, wraps, very good. 195 pp, in English.
To Godai Zenshu Shi / History of Zen in Tang-wudai Dynasties
Tokyo: Sankibo Busshorin, 1985. Hardcover. Large 8vo, cloth in slipcase, book very good, slipcase good with some rubbing and soil. 6, 14, 574, 49, 16 pp. Text in Japanese.
Chinese Religions: Publications in Western Languages 1981 Through 1990
Los Angeles: Ethnographics Press, 1993. Hardcover. Cloth, very good, a few pen marks to some citations. 288 pp.