Chandra, Lokesh

The three hundred gods [drop title]

[New Delhi: Lokesh Chandra, 1965]. Two folding broadsides, each 29.5 x 40 in., with accompanying 10 x 15 in. folding list; a few small closed tears at folds, list creased at corners, near fine in original cloth portfolio, the portfolio pocket split. From the list: "The Three Hundred Gods reproduced on the accompanying two charts pertain to a Peking xylograph which has no title in Tibetan, but bears a Chinese ideograph on the right hand margins of the Tibeto-Mongol preface (termed kha-byan on f9b) The preface informs us that it depicts spiritual masters, tutelary deities or istadevata, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Sravakas and pratyekabuddhas, viras, and the dakinis, dharmapalas and other guardian deities." Item #71157

Price: $120.00