THE RELIGIONS OF MONGOLIA
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated from the German edition by Geoffrey Samuel. "In this study Walther Heissig focuses on the existence in Mongolia of religious forms which have more ancient roots even than Buddhism. The forms of Northern Buddhism in Mongolia correspond in the main to those Tibetan forms form which they originated, and which Professor Guiseppe Tucci describes and explains in The Religions of Tibet, a companion volume to this work. Professor Heissig is mainly concerned in the present book with those beliefs and concepts which belong to the non-Buddhist folk religion of the Mongols." Octavo: 146 p. with 17 textual figures and a map. Original red cloth binding, with gilt titles. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Near fine / Near fine. Item #73330
ISBN: 0710002203
Price: $40.00