THE BUDDHISM
COLLECTION
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A truly stunning and unique collection of over 150 vintage books compiled together for the first time on
USB flash drive covering all aspects of one of the world’s largest and most
fascinating religions – BUDDHISM.
Discover the life of
Buddha – his doctrines, his teachings, his original order and his philosophy. Learn
about practicing Buddhism through the Buddhist scriptures and sacred texts. Uncover
the history and origins of this ancient religion around the Far East, from India and Burma,
to China and Japan. Not only
do these books reveal the ancient stories, legends, customs and traditions of the
Buddha’s followers, they highlight all that it encompasses to be a part of this
captivating religion.
Some of these books are
extremely rare and will provide a valuable reference archive for anyone with an
interest in The Buddha and Buddhism as a religion. The full list of titles
speaks for itself!
This wonderful collection
of 153 rare and out-of-print books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great
content and fabulous illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been
scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on
your laptop, computer, tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also
print entire books or select pages.
The Full List of
Titles Included is as Follows:
31 Planes Of Existence by Jinavamsa (1891)
A Buddhist Bible by D. Goddard (1921)
A Buddhist catechism by H. S. Olcott (1908)
A Buddhist catechism by S. Bhikshu (1920)
A catena of Buddhist scriptures from the Chinese by S. Beal (1871)
A Life Of Buddha by A. Bodhisattva (1883)
A manual of Buddhism, in its modern development by R. S. Hardy
(1860)
A Record Of Buddhistic Kingdoms
by J. Legge (1886)
A record of Buddhistic kingdoms;
being an account by the Chinese monk Fâ-Hien of his travels in India and Ceylon, A.D. 399-414 (1886)
Amitabha - A Story Of Buddhist
Theology by P. Carus (1906)
An introduction to Mahāyāna
Buddhism with especial reference to
Chinese and Japanese phases by W. M. McGovern (1922)
An introduction to Mahayana
Buddhism, with especial reference to Chinese and Japanese phases by W. M.
McGovern (1922)
Buddha - his life and teachings
by P. Carus (1893)
Buddha and Buddhism by A. Lillie
(1900)
Buddha and the gospel of Buddhism
by A. K. Coomaraswamy (1916)
Buddha by E. Hardy (1903) (German
text)
Buddha his life, his doctrine,
his order by H. Oldenburg (1882)
Buddha his life, his teachings by
M. N. Shastri (1901)
Buddha Vandana by Van. Walpola
Piyananda (1903)
Buddhism - being a sketch of the
life and teachings of Gautama, the Buddha by T. W. Rhys Davids (1912)
Buddhism & science by P.
Dahlke (1913)
Buddhism And Buddhists In China by L.
Hodous (1921)
Buddhism and Christianity, a
parallel and a contrast by A. Scott (1890)
Buddhism And Immortality by W. S.
Bigelow(1908)
Buddhism and its Christian
critics by P. Carus (1897)
Buddhism as a religion; its
historical development and its present conditions by H. F. Hackmann (1910)
Buddhism in China by S.
Beal (1884)
Buddhism in Southern
Asia by J. N. Cushing (1905)
Buddhism in the modern world by
K. J. Saunders (1922)
Buddhism In Tibet by E.
Schlagintweit (1863)
Buddhism its historical, theoretical
and popular aspects by E. J. Eitel (1884)
Buddhism, primitive and present,
in Magadha and in Ceylon by R. S.
Copleston (1908)
Buddhist and Christian Gospels
Vols. 1 & 2 by A. J. Edmunds (1914)
Buddhist art in its relation to
Buddhist ideals, with special reference to Buddhism in Japan by M.
Anesaki (1915)
Buddhist China by R. F.
Johnston (1913)
Buddhist essays by P. Dahlke
(1908)
Buddhist literature in China by S.
Beal (1882)
Buddhist Mahayana Texts Pts. 1
& 2 by E. Cowell (1894)
Buddhist Psalms by S. Yamebe
(1921)
Buddhist psychology; an inquiry
into the analysis and theory of mind in Pali literature by C. A. F Rhys Davids
(1914)
Buddhist stories by P. Dahlke
(1913)
Buddhist suttas by T. W. Rhys
Davids (1881)
Chinese Buddhism by J. Edkins
(1880)
Dhammapada And The Sutta Nipata
by F. M. Muller (1881)
Early Buddhism by T. W. Rhys
Davids (1908)
Eastern stories and legends by M.
L. Shedlock (1920)
Esoteric Buddhism by A. P.
Sinnett (1889)
Gleanings In Buddha Fields by L.
Hearn (1897)
Gotama Buddha; a biography (based
on the canonical books of the Theravadin) by K. J. Saunders (1922)
Guide to Buddahood being a standard manual of Chinese Buddhism
by T. Richard (1907)
Jataka tales by H. T. Francis (1916)
Jinacarita by W. Rouse (1905)
Le Bouddha et sa réligion par J.
Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire (1862)
Le Bouddhisme Japonais, doctrines
et histoire des douze grandes sectes Bouddhiques du Japon par R. Fuyishima
(1889)
Lectures on the origin and growth
of religion as illustrated by some points in the history of Indian Buddhism by
T. W. Rhys Davis (1882)
Lectures on the science of
religion by F. M. Muller (1874)
Legends of Indian Buddhism by E. Burnouff (1911)
More Jataka Tales by E. C.
Babbitt (1922)
Nirvâna - a story of Buddhist
psychology by P. Carus (1902)
Outlines of the Mahâyâna as
taught by Buddha by S. Kuroda (1893)
Pamphlets on Buddhism (unknown
author) (1914)
Primitive Buddhism, its origin
and teachings by E. A. Reed (1896)
Principal Teachings Of The True
Sect Of Pure Land by Y. Okusa(1915)
Religious intercourse between Ceylon and Siam in the eighteenth century
Vols. 1 & 2 (1908)
Sakya Buddha - a versified,
annotated narrative of his life and teachings by E. D. Root (1840)
Sánchi and its remains by F. C.
Maisey (1892)
Sasanavamsa by Paññasami (1897)
Sermons Of A Buddhist Abbot Zen
For Americans by S. Shaku (1906)
Sermons of a Buddhist abbot;
addresses on religious subjects by S. Shaku (1906)
Siksha-Samuccaya, a compendium of
Buddhist doctrine by Santi-Deva (1922)
Silavanta Sutra (1897)
Some Buddhist Scriptures by E. J.
Thomas (1913)
Studies in Japanese Buddhism by
A. K. Reischauer (1917)
Sutra of Forty-Two Sections by M.
Matsuyama (1892)
Teachings In Chinese Buddhism by
M. Yun (1907)
The Awakening Of Faith In The
Mahayana Doctrine by P. Ashvagosha (1907)
The Book of the discipline (Vinaya-pitaka) Vols. 2 & 4 by I. B. Horner (1899)
The Buddha and his religion by J.
Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire (1895)
The Buddhas Way Of Virtue by W. Wagiswaru
(1920)
The Buddhism of Tibet, or
Lamaism - with its mystic cults, symbolism and mythology, and in its relation
to Indian Buddhism by L. A. Waddell (1895)
The Buddhist Catechism by H. S.
Olcott (1915)
The Buddhist praying-wheel - a
collection of material bearing upon the symbolism of the wheel and circular
movements in custom and religious ritual by W. Simpson (1896)
The Catechism of the shamans, or,
The laws and regulations of the priesthood of Buddha in China by
Choo-Hung (1831)
The creed of Buddha (1908)
The Creed Of Buddha by E. Holmes
(1919)
The creed of half Japan -
historical sketches of Japanese Buddhism by A. Lloyd (1911)
The Dathávansa, or, The history
of the tooth-relic of Gotama Buddha The
Páli text and its translation into English, with notes by Dhammakitti (1874)
The dhamma of Gotama the Buddha
and the gospel of Jesus the Christ; a critical inquiry into the alleged relations
of Buddhism with primitive Christianity by C. F. Aiken (1900)
The Dhammapada by Suriyagoda
Sumangala Thera (1914)
The Dhammapada, a collection of
verses; being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists (1881)
The dharma, or The religion of
enlightenment; an exposition of Buddhism by P. Carus (1896)
The Diamond Sutra
(Chin-kang-ching), or, Prajna-paramita by W. Gemmel (1912)
The dragon, image, and demon; or,
The three religions of China
Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism by H. C. Dubose (1887)
The dust of desire, or, In the
days of Buddha by E. S. Karney (1912)
The essence of Buddhism by P.
Lakshmi Narasu (1907)
The Gateless Gate by Ekai, called
Mu-Mon (1921)
The gods of northern Buddhism by
A. Getty (1914)
The Gospel Of Buddha by P. Carus
(1917)
The Indian saint, or, Buddha and
Buddhism - a sketch, historical and critical by C. Mills (1876)
The influence of Buddhism on
primitive Christianity by A. Lillie (1893)
The inward light by H. Fielding
Hall (1917)
The Jataka or stories of the Buddha's former births
Vols. 1, 2, 3 & 6 by E. B. Cowell (1895)
The Jataka Tales by E. C. Babbitt
(1912)
The legends and theories of the
Buddhists, compared with history and science, with introductory notices of the
life and system of Gotama Buddha by R. S. Hardy (1866)
The Life And Work Of Buddhaghosa
by B. C. Law (1923)
The Life Of Buddha by A. F.
Herold (1922)
The life of the Buddha and the
early history of his order by W. W. Rockhill (1907)
The life, or legend, of Gaudama,
the Buddha of the Burmese Vol. 2 by P. Bigandet (1911)
The light of Asia by E. Arnold (1894)
The Lotus gospel or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic
teachings by E. A. Gordon (1911)
The Manual Of Zen Buddhism by D.
T. Suzuki (1921)
The Message of Buddhism - The
Buddha, The Doctrine, The Order by S. Bhikku (1922)
The modern Buddhism and its
followers in Orissa, by N. Náth Vasu (1911)
The modern Buddhist; being the
views of a Siamese minister of state on his own and other religions by C. P.
Thikapon (1870)
The new testament of higher
Buddhism by T. Richard (1910)
The noble eightfold path by W.
Tisdall (1903)
The outline of Buddhism by S.
Nagao (1900)
The path of light by Santideva
(1909)
The path of purity; being a
translation of Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga by Pe Maung Tin (1922)
The Questions Of King Milinda
Pts. 1 & 2 by T. W. Rhys Davids (1890)
The Quintessence Of Secret
Esoteric Buddhism by T. Phuoc (1889)
The religions of India -
Brahmanism and Buddhism by A. Menzies (1912)
The religions of India by A.
Barth (1921)
The romantic legend of Sâkya
Buddha, from the Chinese-Sanscrit by Jñānagupta (1875)
The Saddharma Pundarika by H.
Kern (1884)
The soul of a people by H.
Fielding (1902)
The story of Buddhism by K. J.
Saunders (1916)
The story of We-than-da-ya - a
Buddhist legend by L. A. Goss (1886)
The Tree Of Wisdom by Nagarjuna
(1919)
The Udāna, or, The solemn
utterances of the Buddah by D. M. Strong (1902)
The Vimana-Vatthu of the
Khuddhaka nikaya Sutta pitaka. Edited by Edmund Rowland Gooneratne (1886)
The Vinaya Texts Pts. 1 - 3 by T.
W. Rhys Davis (1881)
The Way Of The Buddha by H.
Baynes (1913)
The way to Nirvana by L. de la
Vallée Poussin (1917)
The wheel of the law. Buddhism,
illustrated from Siamese sources by the Modern Buddhist, a Life of Buddha, and
an account of the Phrabat by H. Alabaster (1871)
The word of the Buddha; an
outline of the ethico-philosophical system of the Buddha in the words of the
Pali canon, together with explanatory notes by B. Nyanatiloka (1907)
Ummagga Jataka (The story of a
tunnel) by T. B. Yatawara (1898)
Zen Buddhism And Its Relation To
Art by A. Waley (1922)
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