The Sino-Indian cultural relation began through Buddhism. It was a common ground for intellectual and spiritual interest and intercourse between India and China. The present work is a translation of a seventh-century text Kao-Seng-Chuan (Biographies of Eminent Monks) by the...

This is a study that is intended to speak to, and be relevant for, not only those interested specifically in Buddhism, but also scholars and students in the field of religion at large who are interested in the dialectical ways...

The Symbolism of the Stupa | By Adrian Snodgrass (author) | MLBD Publications The Symbolism of the Stupa , Prof. Craig Reynolds writes "The stupa is a symbolic form that populates throughout South Southeast and East Asia. In its Indian...

The Notion of Emptiness in Early Buddhism investigates the teachings of emptiness in early Buddhism, as recorded in the Pali and Chinese version of the early Buddhist canon. In general, the findings about this book is that these two version,...

The Yogacara Idealism - By A.K. Chatterjee (author) - MLBD Publications The Yogacara Idealism -Vijnanavada was the last great creative synthesis of Buddhism and its position in that tradition is comparable to that of the Advaita Vedanta. In this present...

Sudden and Gradual: Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought (HB) - By Peter N. Gregory (Author) - MLBD Publications This volume examines the historical basis of the debate over sudden versus gradual approaches to enlightenment in Chinese Buddhism seeing it...

Cicadas of Thailand Vol. 1: General and Particular Characteristics (PB) | By Boulard, Michel (Author) | White Lotus. The first of two volumes on Thai cicadas, the most fascinating and also least known representatives of a family of sonorous insects....

Chilli and Cheese Food and Society in Bhutan (PB) | By Choden, Kunzang (Author) | White Lotus. This is a pioneering book offering insight into Bhutanese food culture within its historical and geographical context, as well as looking at food-related...

Cambodia Silenced (PB) | By Mehta, Harish C (Author) | White Lotus. This is the first book on the history of the Khmer press and its struggle for existence under six regimes since the 1930s. The press survived colonial rule,...

Buddhist Temples of Thailand: An Architectonic Introduction (PB) | By Doehring, Karl (Author) | White Lotus This is the first English translation of Karl Döhring’s seminal three-volume photographic study Buddhistische Tempelanlagen in Siam, published in German in 1920. This in-depth...

Buddhist Stupa (Phra Chedi) Architecture of Thailand (PB) | By Doehring, Karl (Author) | White Lotus Karl Döhring has carried out the most exhaustive study ever done by a Western researcher on the Buddhist edifices known in Thailand as phra...

Archaeology of the Mons of Dvaravati (PB) | By Dupont, Pierre (Author) | White Lotus. Pierre Dupont’s L’Archéologie mône de Dvāravatī is a pioneering work on the architecture of the Mon kingdom of Dvāravatī and the evolution of the styles...