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Buddhism and Archaeology

 ALTBUDDHISTISCHE KULTSTATTEN IN CHINESISCH-TURKISTAN

Edited by Albert Grunwedel [Text in German]
337x257mm, cloth binding,380 pages,
678 monochrome illustrations & 1 colored illustration
[Facsmile reprint of first edition published in 1912, Berlin]
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ISBN978-4-653-03490-2

Albert Grunwedel (1856-1935) led the German expedition to Kutcha, Turfan and Karashar between 1905-1907. This is a report on the investigation with topographical maps, plans of the cave temples and sketches of the wall paintings. Visually and intellectually stimulating, this reprint edition offers invaluable sources. Readership:
Students and scholars of Buddhist history, archaeology, and art history.
ALT-KUTSCHA
archaologische und religionsgeschichtliche Forschungen an Tempera-Gemalden aus Buddhistischen Hohlen der ersten acht Jahrhunderte nach Christi Geburt.
Edited by Albert Grunwedel  [Text in German]
*95% reduced size of the original edition
Text: 365x257mm, cloth binding, 244pages
Colored plates: 24 double-page and one folding plate,
cloth case
[Facsmile reprint of first edition published in 1920, Berlin]
SOLD ISBN978-4-653-03305-9
Known as the first book introducing the Caves of Thousand Buddhas. A commentary and collection of drawings which Grunwedel arranged results of his research of the temples in Kutscha, south of the Tian Shan. Featuring full informative text and a number of colored illustrations, this reprint edition gives a comprehensive account of this important archaeological site. Readership:
Students, and scholars of Buddhist history,
archaeology, and art history.
BARABUDUR Edited by N.J. Krom and T.Van Erp
Foreword by Prof. Lokesh Chandra
Plates: 3 tomes in 2 volumes,420×312mm,700 pages
Text: 2 volumes,256x182mm, 882 pages,cloth binding
[Facsimile reprint of English edition published in 1927-31]
4vols. /
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ISBN978-4-653-02529-0
Reprint of monumental work with large sized atlases contains 692 plates. Texts is in two volumes, the archaeological part by Nicholas Johannes Krom and the architectural part by T. Van Erp. Featuring full descriptive text (in English) illuminated with scholarly commentaries and a great number of illustrations
contained in 2 volumes, this reprint edition offers a comprehensive account of this important archaeological monument.
Readership:
Students and scholars of 17th to 18th-century literature, philosophy, and religion.
THE BRIHADDEVATA
Text reconstructed from the manuscripts of the Shorter Recension with introduction, explanatory notes, and indices.
Edited by Muneo Tokunaga
258x182mm, cloth binding, 456 pages
Price 14,300 Yen 
ISBN978-4-653-03481-0
The Brhaddevata is a Sanskrit text, dated around 400 A.D., and supplementary to the Rigveda. This is a new critical edition based on the manuscripts collected by the editor in India.
・Added the verse-number of MacDonnell’s edition.
・Description of the variants are given in critical apparatus.
・Explanatory notes contains translations of text, which differ from MacDonnell’s.
Readership:
Students and scholars of Sanskrit.
 

 

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