Borobudur, Signed (4 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: vg+. 222 pages. 9" tall; inscribed on the title page to Carol. Signed by author. Paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pages 553-558, illustrations : 24 cm. Summary:The story of Sudhana is one of the most popular of the avadanas of Northern Hinayana Buddhism. There are two main versions of this story, one adopted by the Mahasanghika school and the other by the mula-Sarvastivada school. The former is preserved in the Mahavastu under the title Kinnarijataka , and a similar version of this story is found in a Chinese collection called Liu-tu-chi-ching 'Collection [of tales to illustrate] the six paramitas ', said to have been translated in approximately A.D. 270 ( Taisho Tripitaka , in, no. 152, 44 f.) and accessible to us in Chavannes's Tripitaka (Cinq cents contes et apologues , no. 80). The mula-Sarvastivada redaction is found in a Vinaya text of that school called the Bhaisajya-vastu . It was translated by I-ching and is referred to as Ken pen chouo by Chavannes (iv, 133). Inscribed by Author(s).

4° OLn mit OUmschlag. [148] Seiten überwiegend mit schwarzweiss Fotografien versehen. Widmungsexemplar von Heinz-Günter Prager auf Titelblatt signiert.Texte viersprachig.Gutes und sauberes Exemplar. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1250.

Naarden, the artist, ca. 1926-1928. Original etching (40.0 x 48.8 cm) on large, oblong paper (50 x 63.5 cm) verso blank. Signed by the artist. = The largely self-taught artist Jan Christiaan Poortenaar (1886-1958) went to Indonesia in 1922 and returned to the Netherlands in 1926. "His work was selected for the International Colonial Exhibition in Paris in 1931, which was unfortunately destroyed by fire. in the 'Tropenmuseum' in Amsterdam, there is a large collection of his paintings" (Haks & Maris). In 1929, Poortenaar published a work titled "De Boroboedoer. Zes etsen door Jan Poortenaar, Inleiding van Prof. Dr. N. J. Krom", but the six Borobudur etchings in that work are different and much smaller. Nevertheless, it seems that the "moonlight" etching was made more or less simultaneously. Slight fraying and chipping to the edges, otherwise a fine copy. Haks & Maris, Lexicon: p. 212.