BUDDHISM: A RELIGION OF INFINITE COMPASSION ~ SELECTIONS FROM BUDDHIST LITERATURE

yellow & orange decorative trade paperback soft cover 8vo. fine cond. binding square & tight. spine has a crease. covers clean. front bottom corner has tiny nick. top edge has faint fox spots, other edges clean. contents free of markings. 6th printing. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~.xxviii+189+ list of library of liberal arts titles. chronology. glossary. bibliography. religion. philosophy. ancient literature. buddhism. history of india. psychology. ~ "As is well known, the Buddhist community arose in India in the 6th century B.C. In time it spread southward into Ceylon, Burma, Siam and Southeast Asia generally, and northward across Central Asia into China, Korea, and Japan, while directly from India it passed into Tibet in a mixed form which also became the Buddhism of Mongolia. In variant versions its literature has been preserved in the Pali language of Ceylon, normative for Southeastern Asia, in the Sanskrit language of India, and in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Tibetan. As full representation of all this is impracticable for a volume of first readings, limitation of materials has been necessary. Selections have been chosen from only the major collections, P?li, Chinese, Japanese, and Tibetan, for these contain dominant traditions still living today.".…