These remarkable stories, retold here by Eric Cheetham and beautifully illustrated by Roberta Mansell, contain within them an extraordinary degree of warmth and humour and provide a powerful insight into the Buddha's teachings. These stories from the Old Silk Road between India and China became the stock-in-trade of itinerant storytellers, who journeyed with the caravans in both directions. They would entertain the travellers by retelling tales of this kind around the campfires in the desert wilderness or in the caravanserais. This new publication from the Buddhist Society brings together twenty-one stories with over fifty colour illustrations, which are accompanied by a map of the Old Silk Road and an extensive glossary. In Further Stories from the Old Silk Road the reader is transported to a world of flying monks and hidden jewels, where a magical stupa appears and then vanishes and where heroes undertake extraordinary quests across ancient empires.
Further Stories from the Silk Road, Eric Cheetham, The Buddhist Society, Paperback (8.5 x 12 inches), 96 pp, $24.95

Eric Cheetham (author) has been an influential teacher and lecturer on Buddhism for over fifty years. He is the author of a number of significant works, the best-known of which is Fundamentals of Mainstream Buddhism.

After studying Fine Art and Philosophy in California, Roberta Mansell (illustrator) moved to England in 1961. Since 1980 she has been a Zen trainee with Venerable Myokyo-ni and Martin Goodson at the Buddhist Society and the Zen Centre in London.

CONTENTS: Further Stories from the Silk Road
13	Publisher's Foreword
14	Map
16	Foreword
17	Introduction
18	The Prince who Sought the Crest Jewel
24	The Painter Karna
26	The Burning House
28	Bodhisattva Never Despise
29	The Exploits and Punishment of the Arhat Bharadvajra Pindola
34	The Buddha Returns from a Visit to the Gods
38	The Leper and the Statue
40	Vimalakirti's Empty House
44	The Bowl of Perfumed Food
47	The Inexhaustible Lamp
51	The Magical Contest between Sariputra and Maudgalyayana
53	The Pgieon and Sariputra's Shadow
55	The Arhats' Airlift
58	The Appearance of the Great Stupa
62	The Hidden Jewel
64	The Bodhisattva Ever Weeping's Search for Perfect Wisdom
74	The Arhat and the Nun's Jar
76	The Old Woman Who Couldn't See the Buddha
78	The Magic City
82	The Lost Son
88	The Lost Cloud
92	A Simplified Glossary
94	Biographies
95	Acknowledgements