A Catena of Buddhist Scriptures from the Chinese - Hardcover

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Of tlio translations found in this book, several have already appeared in the Journal of the Kojal Asiatic Society. Having revised these and added others to complete what I conceive to be the cycle of theB uddhist development, I now publish the entire series as a contribution towards a more general acquaintance with Buddhist Literature inC hina. The Buddhist Canon in that country, as it was arrano-ed between the years G7 and 1285 A.n., includes It 10 distinct works, comprising 558G books. But these form only a fractional part of the entire Buddhist Literature which is spread throughout theE mpire. And yet of all this wc have been content, hitherto, to reuuiin profoundly ignorant. It is difficult to understand how we can claim, undcM- these circumstances, to have any precise idea as to the religious condition of the Chinese people, or even to appreciate the phraseology met with in their ordinary books. Our first duty, surely, should be to turn our attention to the study of some portion at least of these extensive Scriptures.
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