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The Kelmscott Press, founded by William Morris and Emery Walker, published 53 books in 66 volumes [1] between 1891 and 1898. Each book was designed and ornamented by Morris and printed by hand in limited editions of around 300.
The Wood Beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. [1] It was first published in hardcover by Morris's Kelmscott Press, in 1894.
Spitzer Manuscript folio 383 fragment. This Buddhist Sanskrit text was written on both sides of the palm leaf (recto and verso). [1]The Spitzer Manuscript is the oldest surviving philosophical manuscript in Buddhist hybrid Sanskrit, [2] [3] and possibly the oldest discovered Buddhist Sanskrit manuscript of any type related to Buddhism.
Birch bark manuscripts in Brāhmī script were discovered in an ancient Buddhist monastery in Jaulian, near Taxila in the Punjab in Pakistan, and dated to the 5th century CE. [7] The Bakhshali manuscript consists of seventy birch bark fragments written in Sanskrit and Prakrit, in the Śāradā script. Based on the language and content, it is ...
Early writing on mineralogy, especially on gemstones, comes from ancient Babylonia, the ancient Greco-Roman world, ancient and medieval China, and Sanskrit texts from ancient India. [1] Books on the subject included the Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder which not only described many different minerals but also explained many of their ...
Retrieved 25 Nov 2008 from "Ancient Buddhist Texts" J.K. Nariman (1923), Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism , Bombay: Indian Book Depot; pp. 11–18 Tournier, Vincent (2012), "The Mahāvastu and the Vinayapiṭaka of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins" (PDF) , Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology ...
The Vajrasana in the early 20th century. The Vajrasana, together with the remnants of the ancient temple built by Ashoka, was excavated by archaeologist Alexander Cunningham (1814-1893), who published his discovery and related research of the Mahabodhi Temple in his 1892 book Mahâbodhi, or the great Buddhist temple under the Bodhi tree at Buddha-Gaya.
This is a list of writers on Buddhism. The list is intended to include only those writers who have written books about Buddhism , and about whom there is already a Wikipedia article. Each entry needs to indicate the writer's most well-known work.