Precept and Practice

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . 366 pages. Shelf wear, pages lightly yellowed; a good book overall. No jacket. Contents are Sinhalese Buddhism-Orthodox or Syncretistic?; The Basic Vocabulary of Buddhism; The Buddha; A Sketch of the Universe as Seen from Migala; Total Responsibility in Theory and Practice; The Ethic… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x5x1. First edition. ink stamp on front endpaper, minor pencil marginalia throughout text. 1971 Hard Cover. xiv, 366 pp. This is an empirical study of religion - particularly religious change. In it, Gombrich explores all aspects of religious change in belief and practice in Ceylon, not only… Read more about this item

Gombrich, Richard F. Precept and practice: traditional Buddhism in the rural highlands of Ceylon. Oxford: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1971, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index, 366 pp. First edition. Very good hardcover copy with very good dust jacket. Binding is solid, no marks in text. corners are sharp. There is a previous owner's name blind stamped into half title page.

Oxford University Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.