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Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 248. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1885 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: CHI Pages: 248.

13 columns per page, 18 characters per column. 43; 49; 55 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo (279 x 195 mm.), orig. wrappers stained dark brown with fermented persimmon juice to prevent worming (nevertheless wrappers a little wormed, with careful repairs), cont. manuscript title labels, with "Kongen" written on each cover, new stitching. [Japan]: ca. 1630-40. A rare movable type edition, unrecorded by Kawase or WorldCat. Sorimachi, in his wonderful Catalogue 42 (1972) of movable type books, describes a copy (item 419) and gives a date of "mid-Kan'ei" (ca. 1630-40). In his description, Sorimachi states that the full title of this work is Jippunimon Kongensho or Jufunimon Kongensho. He also suggests that it might well be an "Eizan-ban," printed at the Enryakuji monastery complex on Mount Hiei, which specialized in Chinese works as well as Tendai scriptures. This work contains the text in Vols. II and III of The Essentials of the Ten Gates of Non-Duality [Ch.: Shibu'er men], by Jingxi Zhanran (711-82), the putative ninth patriarch of the Tiantai zong and one of the great revitalizers of the Tiantai tradition. Interspersed with Zhanran's text is later commentary by other Tiantai monk-scholars. Vol. I contains further commentaries, including those of Siming Zhili (960-1028), a Chinese monk of the Tiantai tradition. "In 991, [Zhili] became the abbot of Ganfusi, and four years later he began his residence at the monastery Bao'enyuan on Mt. Siming, whence his toponymZhili later found himself at the center of the Shanjia Shanwai or 'Home-Mountain/Off-Mountain' debate that racked the Song-dynasty Tiantai school."Buswell & Lopez, The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, p. 825. Zhili's commentary, written in 1004, was important. "From the Song forward, orthodox Tiantai doctrine has been based upon Zhili's doctrinal elaborations on Tiantai teachings. Zhili was best known for his interpretation of the thought of Zhanranwho commanded great respect and imperial patronage in the Tang Dynasty "Zhili's doctorial elaboration on Zhanran's teachings was generated during debates with other Tiantai monk-scholars over Zhanran's works. The victorious faction, led by Zhili, was retrospectively known as the Home Mountain (shanjia) Teaching in contrast to their opponents, labeled the Off Mountain (shanwai) Teaching. In [the present work], Zhili criticized his opponents' interpolation of Huayan and Chan thought in Tiantai doctrine "Zhili's interpretation was canonized, other interpretations were left in oblivion. Tiantai orthodoxy for the following centuries was defined during the Song Dynasty."Shin-yi Chao, "Chinese Religion in the Song and Alien Dynasties," in Nadeau, ed., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions, pp. 106-07. A very good set, preserved in a chitsu. With some carefully repaired worming throughout, touching characters. In Vol. III, the final 18 leaves have worming that obscures several characters per leaf.