Description: The Kāçyapaparivarta: A Mahāyānasūtra of the ratnakūtra Class, Edited in the Original Sanskrit in Tibetan and in Chinese by Baron A. Staël-Holstein. Published by Meicho-Fukyu-kai in Shanghai. 1926, 236pp, 8 x 10", disbound folio. Condition as-is, the folio is disbound, and is heavily marked up from the previous owner. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing. The previous owner left pen writing and underlining and purple-inked faculty stamps throughout the pages. There are some loose pages. This folio needs to be re-bound. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce 1920s book on Mahāyāna Buddhist scripture in the original Sanskrit as well as in Tibetan and Chinese. This specific book once resided in the prestigious library of language scholar Johannes Rahder (1898-1988). Rahder was a Dutch Orientalist and professor of Japanese at the University of Leiden from 1931 through 1946, and at Yale University from 1947 through 1965. He was depicted in the work of the legendary Langston Hughes' (1901-1967) 'I Wonder, I Wander'. After a brief meeting between the two figures on the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1933, Hughes recognized Rahder as being a "...famous authority on obscure Oriental languages". Rahder's purple-inked University of Leiden faculty stamps and pen markings can be found throughout this folio. FORN-SHELF-0549-BB-2406-eb0744
Price: 250 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Disbound
Place of Publication: Shanghai
Language: English, Sanskrit, Tibetan & Chinese
Author: Baron A. Staël-Holstein
Publisher: Meicho-Fukyū-Kai
Topic: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Country/Region of Manufacture: China
Subject: Religion & Spirituality
Year Printed: 1926
