RARE study and English translation of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra ("The Book of Adamantine Absorption"), a canonical Chinese Buddhist scripture, usually identified with the emergence of the Ch`an (or Zen) school of Buddhism. 245x165mm. XVIII+315 pages. Beige cloth Hardcover with red cloth spine, white pictorial dust jacket. White lettering on spine. Jacket and spine edges slightly bumped. This important work on the origins of Zen Buddhism is otherwise as new!