Product Description: This text contains works by scholars of Buddhism, themselves Buddhist, who seek to apply the critical tools of the academy to reassess the truth and transformative value of their tradition in its relevance to the contemporary world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A deluxe edition of the early version of Tropic of Cancer.

Henry Miller : a personal archive : manuscripts, letters, photographs, memorabilia, awards, correspondence, journals, booklets, ephemera, legal documents, furniture and other miscellaneous items / sale catalogue compiled by Roger Jackson & Wm. E. Ashley.

4to. xxiii, 1022 pp, introduction, the correspondence, and the purpose by Lawrence J. Shifreen, introductory note by Roger Jackson, preface by Henry Miller, the sources, appendices, acknowledgments, list of b&w illustrations, index. Signed by Roger Jackson. An 815 copy American Edition published by the compiliers. From this edition 85 copies have been specially bound, signed and numbered. This edition contains two 5x7 inch color photographs: the First Edition of Miller's first published book, Tropic of Cancer (Obelisk Press-1934), and his first foreing translation, Obratnik Raka (Tropic of Cancer), published in 1938 with dust jacket illustration drawn by Matisse. This is no. 50 of 85. Black cloth with gilt lettering.

Product Description: The Kalachakra, or "Wheel of Time," is one of the most profound and sublime of the Buddhist tantric systems. It is an intricate interweaving of astrology, eschatology, physiology, and yoga into a meditational path system that embraces the entire material universe and leads to complete, perfect enlightenment...read more