BELL, Sir Charles.

The Religion of Tibet.

Name: The Religion of Tibet.
Brand: BELL, Sir Charles.
SKU: 122925
Price: 350.00 GBP
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Stock Code 122925

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1931.

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Based upon Tibetan xylographs and manuscripts, Bells tells how Buddhism came to Tibet, and its influence on the country. Bell, fluent in Tibetan, spent eighteen years in Tibet including a year in Lhasa, where he was befriended by the Dalai Lama.

First edition; 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm); 69 photographic illustrations including colour frontispiece, 3 maps (two folding), some light spotting to maps; publisher's original dark blue cloth, gilt vignette to upper and lower covers, gilt lettering to spine, faintest of rubbing to spine, a fine copy; [xvi], 235pp.

Yakushi B112a.

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