Product Description: Iran, or Persia as it was formerly known, has been of interest to outsiders for millennia. From the Greco-Persian wars of antiquity, through the rise and flourishing of Islam, to the age of European imperialist expansion in the East, Iran has been a central player in global history...read more

Product Description: "'Le Sutra des contremplations du Budda Vie-Infinie' played a role in the history of the Pure Land, this tradition to this day occupies a major place in Buddhism of the Far East. Typical of the ideal of the Great Vehicle, this text provides a complex method to visualize the Buddha Amida and his kingdom in this life and a more accessible practice: the recitation of the name of the Buddha (nembutsu) to be born with him at the next life...read more

Product Description: This book provides, for the first time in English, a concise and scholarly study of papermaking in the Islamic world derived largely from published sources in English, and informed by the writer's professional knowledge of papermaking.

Product Description: history and culture of Iran

Product Description: The production of bronze vessels in ancient China spans a period of eighteen centuries - from the Shang dynasty, c.17th century BC, to the Han dynasty, 3rd century AD. Cast in large numbers, they were used for ritual ceremonies and in burial...read more