The Buddhist Praying Wheel
by SIMPSON, WILLIAM
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Piermont, New York, United States
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About This Item
New Hyde Park: University Books, (1970), 1970. First edition thus. 8vo; pp. xi, 303; forty-eight illustrations from sketches. Tape ghost to front endpaper, else a very good copy or better in original gray cloth in a lightly soiled dust jacket. "A Collection of Material Bearing Upon the Symbolism of the Wheel and Circular Movements in Custon and Religious Ritual". A reissue of Simpson's germinal study of the symbolism of the wheel in eastern religious culture..
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- Bookseller
- Trevian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001985
- Title
- The Buddhist Praying Wheel
- Author
- SIMPSON, WILLIAM
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New Hyde Park: University Books, (1970)
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- WHEEL SYMBOLISM RELIGION EASTERN
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