The Life of Hsuan-Tsang: Hui-li and Yen-ts’ung
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8188643165
Length
xx+274p., Plates; Map; 19cm.
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Hsuan-tsang stands out as a pilgrim-scholar, master-translator, epic hero of Chienese narrative literature, and as the most outstanding source for the history and archaeology, philosophy and geography of India, Central Asia and China. His ‘Record’ has been translated and annotated in full and several times. His ‘Life’ written byhis direct disciples Hui-Li and Yen-ts’ung was summarized in French by S. Julien in 1853. Its first Samuel Beal in 1888, but ...