On the Intellectual Vocation / A Rosary of Edifying Texts with an Analytical-elucidatory Essay

Sarnath, Varanasi: Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, 1997. Limited [stated] First Edition, one of 550 copies. Cloth, printed jacket, octavo, 216 pp. + onionskin commemorative poem to departed co-workers. Nicely tissue-guarded color frontipiece of Lord Sri Hanuman. About Near Fine book in About Near Fine jacket, light bumping at corners, some rubbing to jacket, pleasing light toning to the textblock. A very handsome copy of the limited (to 550 un-numbered specimens) hardcover first limited edition of this lengthy and thoughtful essay by A.K. Saran, though it is termed concise by the publisher as a "commentary on a Dinesen Sutra: The great people are judged by what they are" [this is set opposed to western civilization, which is deemed not "bearers of consciousness, but whores of reason"]. Extremely scarce, in any condition, in this limited first edition of 500; here in a nice state of preservation. L-102.