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Buddha's Light Publishing

Buddha’s Light Publishing offers quality translations of classical Buddhist texts as well as works by contemporary Buddhist teachers and scholars. We embrace Humanistic Buddhism, and promote Buddhist writing which is accessible, community-oriented, and relevant to daily life. Founded in 1996 by Venerable Master Hsing Yun as the Fo Guang Shan International Translation Center, Buddha’s Light Publishing seeks to continue Master Hsing Yun’s goal of promoting the Buddha’s teachings by fostering writing, art, and culture.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich

Verlag Barbara Budrich was founded in 2004 by Barbara Budrich. The publishing house provides high-quality specialized literature in Pedagogy, Gender Studies, Political Science, Social Work and Sociology for researchers, teachers and students. The publications include German as well as English books and journals in print and online with open access being a given.
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December 2019 - December 2023

Buddhist Tales in Ancient China

by Li kehe

The book collects 180 legends about Buddhist scriptures, translated into English, and accompanied by relevant pictures. The content is rich and interesting, and the copyright has been exported to Malaysia ，Sri Lanka，Bengal and India.

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April 2016

World Buddhist Art Illustrated Ceremony

by Master Xingyun

The "World Buddhist Art Illustrated Grand Ceremony" takes Sakyamuni Buddha as the main axis and collects Buddhist art surviving works, including eight major categories of Buddhist art works, including architecture, paintings, figures, calligraphy, cultural relics, sculptures, gold and stone, and collections in various museums. Presented in the form of entries, the collection area covers more than 30 countries and regions. The authors and data collectors of entries come from China, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Europe, Oceania, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions, and are worldwide The first big gathering of Buddhist art is of great significance.

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2008

A Collection of Comic Books of Journey to the West

by Mutiple Anthors

It mainly describes the story of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Shaseng, and the White Dragon Horse who protected Tang Monk to go to the west for Buddhist scriptures during the Taizong Emperor's reign of the Tang Dynasty. During this journey, they conquered difficulties one after another, fought with monsters and devils all the way to the West to get the true scriptures.

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Hexi Corridor China's Wild West

by 《Hexi Corridor China's Wild West》Camera crew

The documentary "Hexi Corridor China's Wild West", with its rich humanistic materials and unique aesthetic perspective, has become a classic of domestic documentary. Hexi Corridor, a documentary book of the same name published by Gansu Education Press, reproduces the film on paper in the form of pictures and illustrations, bringing readers a new reading experience and aesthetic enjoyment. The book's chapters are arranged in the same chronological order as the documentary, with each chapter focusing on a different theme -- from the equestrians of the empire to the quiet Buddhist faces of the grottoes; From the reading of Confucian scriptures to the ringing of merchants' camel bells. In different dimensions, he wrote an epic of the Hexi Corridor, a meeting place of civilizations.

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Chinese Buddhist Culture

by Hong Xiuping

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Journey to the West for Teenagers

by Zhang Jiahua

The Journey to the West is one of the “Four Great Classical Novels”of China. However written in the sixteenth century with ancient words, it is hard for children to read. Zhang Jiahua, a renowned children's literature writer, has repeatedly studied and apprehended the content and spirit of the original work. And thinking from the perspective of children, he cuts the contents that are redundant and some others that are not suitable for children to read, particularly those violent and cruel scenes, creates a brand new Journey to the West for Children. The Journey to the West tells not only a journey to the west to retrieve Buddhist scriptures but also stories about spiritual growth, which is hard for young readers to perceive when they first read the book. The author adds detailed and appropriate explanations, making the intended meaning of the stories further clarified, and also making it more understandable how the Monkey King Wukong strengthens his willpower while defeating demons and ghosts and finally becomes the “Victorious Fighting Buddha”.

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Yungang Grottoes Story Sculpture Arts

by Zhao Kunyu

Buddhist story sculpture is one of the very old express contents and forms of Buddhist arts. The Yungang Grottoes story sculptures show the scenes of stories between gods and folks, men and women, and animals and plants. Though more than one thousand and five hundred years have passed, these art images remain vibrant and appealing. In this book, the author carries out an overall discussion over the existing Buddhist story graphics in the Yungang Grottoes concerning their research history, form of expression, story classification, cultural characteristics. This book is a summative and forward-looking production of the research on Yungang Buddhist story sculptures seen so far, and it is also a graphics archive of Yungang Buddhist stories.

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Fiction

November 2020

The Guys from Mandalay , 1950

by Khet Zaw

The Guys of Manday ,1950s is based in the years just after independence . After Myanmar became independent from English , there were several armed conflicts in Ethnic Areas all over the world. Sein Da Myone ( Golden Dagger) was a leader of a robber gang base in Mandalay ,upper Myanmar . Nobody knows the real life of Mr Golden Dagger and he lived under the face of a gentleman . This book is related to The Guys of Rangoon 1930 as well and they have some links in stories.

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Fiction

May 2020

The Guys of Rangoon 1930

by Khet Zaw

The Guys of Rangoon , 1930 is a record breaking bestseller book from Myanmar . It sold 16000 copies within one day during the pre order period. More than one hundred thousand copies have been sold so far. Film rights, several merchandise rights, comic rights already sold.It was based in Yangon , Myanmar during the colonial period. The main character is Pho Thoke who was a gangster and managed a lot of business by himself and his gang. He is very close with politicians as well and he is involved in several dirty political movements in Myanmar . This story is based on real characters and events.

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August 2021

Traveling Notes of the Western Regions in Great Tang

by Zhou Guolin

Traveling Notes of the Western Regions in Great Tang Dynasty is not only a historical and geographical work about the western regions, but also an important historical work of Buddhism. The author is Xuan Zang, a famous monk, Buddhist theorist and translator in the Tang Dynasty.According to Xuan Zang's travel route, the twelve volumes of the book give a detailed description of the geographical situation, land and water transportation, climate, products, ethnic groups, language, history, politics, economy, religion, culture, customs and habits of the city-state, region and country along the way, especially the situation of local religious temples and Buddhist stories and legends. The content is very rich, which is a rare work for the Chinese people at that time to understand the external world. This book is also a precious historical material for studying the ancient history of India and the history of Indian Buddhism. It is an indispensable and important document for Archaeology in Central and South Asia and has great historical value.

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Children's & YA

Yangon and Englithed Puppets

by Jeff Perce

Base in Yangon. A girl met with a puppet and sharing the experience each other. A heart warm charming stories with beautiful collage illustrations.

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December 2014

Portrait of Summer

by Wang Meng

This is a collection of 20 short stories and 11 mini-novels by Wang Meng. Characterized by its life-based artistry, many of the short stories contain profound connotations with a tendency towards the supernatural, while the mini novels feature obscure Buddhist allegorical words for people to reflect on. These works were written over a period of half a century, so the book constitutes a unique collection.

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January 1992

Catalogue of the Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge

Nachdruck der Ausgabe Cambridge 1883

by Bendall, Cecil / Vorwort von Wezler, Albrecht

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September 2011

Warum ich Buddhist bin und weshalb Sex, Steaks und Whisky dazugehören

by Asma, Stephen T. / Übersetzt von Imgrund, Barbara

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March 2022

Rage!

Resolute for Anger

by Johanna Kuroczik

A stormy emotional disposition is regarded as primitive, evil. Calmness, yoga and a Buddhist-inspired zen state are good and desirable. A person who flies into a rage has lost composure and loses control. Johanna Kuroczik’s book takes a closer look at the facts about anger. What’s good about being enraged, about this fireball inside, which can also motivate changes? What does neuroscience say about the powerful emotion, and how can we deal with it positively as well as use it constructively?

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2017

Children's Art Manual Game Book

by Green Book

Basics of Interesting Paper-cut: Basics of Interesting Paper-cut is a book for guiding children to have fun origami. The strength of DIY ability directly reflects the flexibility of the brain, so improving children's DIY ability is an important way to promote intellectual development, while hand craft is a good way to fully develop children's intelligence.

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Dunhuang Frescoes

by Zhao Xiaoxing, Zhang Bo

Dunhuang Frescoes divides Dunhuang murals into ten categories, including jataka, Buddhist story, karma, historical sites, worshippers, landscapes, architecture and pattern paintings etc., among which 100 representative works are selected as important. From the perspective of the youth, the author introduces the characteristics of murals in different times, the artistic style, and the knowledge of folk customs, cultural communication between Chinese and Western in the story. This book explains the representative works of Dunhuang murals in vivid words, which can arouses the youth's interest in the murals, so that they are willing to read and understand.

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Good luck

by Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House

The book selects 300 works (groups) of painting, sculpture, grottoes, architecture, craft and other art works from the "13th Five-Year Plan" national key publications publishing planning project and the National Publishing Fund funded project "World Buddhist Art Atlas", closely related to auspicious themes in different periods and traditional Chinese cultural elements. Highlighting the development history of Chinese civilization and the radiation spread to neighboring countries and regions. Through appreciating the works of art, the manuscript analyzes their cultural connotation, expresses the auspicious vision of the ancient working people in health, reunion, peace, harvest, wealth and other aspects, reveals the far-reaching influence of Chinese culture, and has the function of art appreciation and cultural popularization.

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Artistic Painted Sculptures in Shanxi Temples

by Yang Ping

The art of painted sculptures is a kind of engraving art with distinctive national features in China. According to the statistical data from previous censuses of cultural relics, Shanxi province owns more than 13,000 painted sculptures, of which the majority are in Buddhist and Taoist temples. The painted sculptures in Shanxi temples are unique across the country, with a great variety of themes, a long time span, diversified styles, and exquisite craftsmanship. This book series makes a multi-angle analysis of the themes, styles, allusions, and evolution of the painted sculptures in Shanxi temples with exquisite pictures and concise words. Not only can it be used as a reference for inheriting and developing ancient Chinese painted sculpture techniques, but also a guide for appreciating the beauty of Chinese sculpture art.

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Superlatives of Dunhuang

by Wang Huihui

This book includes several sections focusing on the superlatives of Mogao Grottoes' cave art, architectural art, polychrome sculpture art, and mural art. The section on the superlatives of cave art introduces the distinctive characteristics of the earliest Mogao Grottoes with documented historical dating and the most prolific cave art creation team. The section on architectural art discusses the artistic value of classic caves such as Cave 16, the largest cave in Mogao Grottoes, and Cave 17, the most renowned cave. The polychrome sculpture art section showcases the artistic style of polychrome sculptures in caves like Cave 45, Cave 96, and Cave 158. The mural art section presents classic Buddhist jataka stories and sutra illustrations depicted in Dunhuang murals.Written in vivid language and rich in content, this book is highly readable and well-suited for teenagers and beginners interested in Dunhuang's art and history.

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