Sankibo Busshorin
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Sankibo Busshorin
Sankibō Busshorin (山喜房佛書林) is a Buddhist bookstore and academic publisher located in front of the red gate (Akamon) of the University of Tokyo, in Hongō, Bunkyō, Tokyo. The press specializes in scholarly Buddhist studies, publishing academic monographs including doctoral dissertations, as well as general works on Buddhism. Its list covers a wide range of Buddhist studies including Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese Buddhism, with particular strengths in Sanskrit and Tibetan philology, Buddhist philosophy, and the history of Japanese Buddhism. Among its landmark publications is the Bonwa Daijiten (梵和大辞典), Japan's only comprehensive Sanskrit-Japanese dictionary.
