1969 · London
by Thomas, Edward J.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd, 1969. Seventh impression, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 297, [1]; frontispiece portrait and 3 plates; fine copy in original blue cloth stamped in gilt, and in a fine, unclipped dust jacket save for a small spot of sticker residue in the top corner of the front panel on the dust jacket. "Since the appearance of the epoch-making works of Rhys Davids, Kern and Oldenberg, the sources for the history of Buddha and Buddhism have been greatly increased. These new data have never been incorporated with previous results, nor has an estimate been made of the extent to which they modify earlier conclusions. The present work sets forth what (truncated)