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Bodhisattva : a Gandharan face

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Description: "Gandhara was an historical region situated in what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan, It was located on the route by which Buddhism was transmitted out of India to China, and was also, in 327 B.C., the eastern-most area to which Alexander the Great brought Hellenistic culture. Gandharan art depicts mostly Buddhist subjects but does so in a style that reflects both western and eastern iconographic traditions"--From leaf [4].
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2001]
Call number: 653047
Creator: Adams, Robert (1937-)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 1590050118; 9781590050118

Neumann, Robert G

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Correspondence between Robert G. Neumann, American Ambassador to Afghanistan and Otis Chandler. Topics include having Neumann at an editorial luncheon; hunting permits and the nature of hunting in Afghanistan; and the political situation in Afghanistan.

mssLAT

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The gulistān or Rose garden :

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The volume contains the poetry by the Persian poet Saʻdī. The manuscript was written in Herat, Afghanistan, by Ala'uddin Muhammal al-Katib.

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Da fang guang fu huayan jing juan 45

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Fascicle 45 of the Huayan jing was printed during the Song dynasty in 1085. This particular edition was part of the Great Canon of the Ten-Thousand-Fold Longevity of the Chongning Reign Period 崇寧萬寿大藏經, commonly known as Chongning zang 崇寧藏. The canon was commissioned by the Dongchan si 東禪寺 (Dongchan Temple) in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Most notably, Chongning zang was the third printed tripitaka in Chinese history (at least eight canons were printed during the Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasty) and the first privately commissioned Chinese Buddhist canon. This set was also the first Buddhist canon printed in Southern China, far away from the Song capital, Kaifeng. The project was started by Chongzhen 沖真, abbot at the Dongchan Temple, in 1080 and concluded in 1105. A total of 6,108 fascicles were printed using woodblocks. The Chongning zang was the first Chinese Buddhist canon bound in folded accordion style album, rather than as a scroll in the previous two editions.

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Various photographs, posters, and programs

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Contains enlargements of performance photographs from the set previously known as photCL 327 or Album 327; depictions of Gilmor Brown in character for unidentified play; and a scene from Trelawny of the Halwels, 1920. Also includes programs from Pasadena Community Playhouse and Playbox productions; a hand-drawn poster for When Knighthood was in Flower, 1932, by Corliss McGee; posters for the Gin Game, Charley's Aunt, and El Grande de Coca Cola; and four blueprints of the set design for a Mainstage production of Picnic, 1955.

mssPlayhouse

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Engert, Cornelius Van Hemert. 1 letter (1922) to Lady Agnes Adams, Washington, D.C

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Upon returning to the States he was ordered to Washington. As he was passing through New York he renewed the acquaintance of a woman he had met three years before and they are to be married.. Mr. Engert has just been made First Secretary of Embassy and Assistant to the Chief of the Near Eastern Division of the State Department.

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Series V. Theater performance and related photographs

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Subseries A (Community Playhouse and Mainstage productions), Subseries B (Playbox productions) and Subseries C (Mainstage, Playbox, and Gilmor Brown) are from a collection previously known as photCL 327 or Album 327, compiled from the scrapbook series set described in Series II.

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