Impressions of Mahayana Buddhism

Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuk

Kyoto and London

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The Eastern Buddhist Society and Luzac and Company

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1940

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First Edition.

22cm x 14cm. x, 249 pages, 2 plates. Lettered stiff card french fold wrappers, lettered jacket.

Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki (1878-1939) was an American Theosophist and Buddhist scholar. In 1911 she married Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (D. T. Suzuki), the well known philosopher and Buddhist Scholar who popularized Zen in the west. She wrote extensively on Buddhism and Japanese culture, and following her death her husband compiled this book from her articles in various magazines in Japan, India, England and America.

Minor shelf wear and tanning. Very minor foxing. A couple of the preliminary bolts unopened. Minor tanning and small chips and tears to jacket. Bookseller’s label of Isseido, Tokyo, to front flap. Very Good Condition.