SI-YU-KI Buddhist Records of the Western World (2 Volumes, Bound in One)

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The Chinese Buddhist pilgrims visited India during the early centuries of the Christian era. The Buddhist literature of China contains the records of their travels, the authenticity of which is vouchsafed by the fact that they embody the testimony of independent eyewitnesses as to the facts related in them. Fa-hian wrote Fokwo-ki– a work well known in Europe through a translation by M. Abel Remusat. The accounts of Sung Yun and Hwei Sang are derived from the private records of Tao-Yung and Sung-Yun. Hiuen Tsiang, the most famous Chinese traveller, composed the Ta-t’ang-si-yu-ki in twelve books. The records are very interesting as they refer to the geography, history, manners and religion of the people of the countries West China, of India in particular, visited by the pilgrims. The reader of this book will find ample material for study on some important questions: the different manners and customs of separate people, the various products of the different soils and the diverse class divisions of the society; when Buddhism flourished and when Buddhism declined as also how the devoted pilgrims encountered the perils of travel in foreign and distant lands and endured sufferings by desert, mountain and sea.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Samuel Beal

Rev. Samuel Beal (1825-89), graduated in 1847 from Trinity College, Cambridge. Between 1852 and 1887 he worked as a Bishop in the British Navy and after retirement in 1888 became the Rector of Greens-Norton, Towcester. In 18777 he was appointed a lecturer in Chinese in the University College, London. His main contribution was to Buddhist studies and translations of the accounts of the Chinese travelers. His main publications include: Travels of Buddhist Pftgrims (translated from the Chinese, 1869); Catena of Buddhist Scriptures (translated from the Chinese, 1872); Romantic Legend of Buddha (1875); and Dhamma-pada, or Texts from the Buddhist Canon (1878).

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Title
SI-YU-KI Buddhist Records of the Western World (2 Volumes, Bound in One)
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
8120811070
Length
cxiv+242p., 370p., Maps; Index.
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