Isbn: 9788121501682 - a record of the buddhist religion as practised in india and malaya: ad671-695 (1 Ergebnisse)

Reprint. Translated by J. Takakusu. Folding map, lxiv + 240pp, index, notes, spine of covers slightly faded, edges slightly browned, from the library of Professor Anthony Reid with his name front free endpaper, a good hardback copy. This work provides a "veritable mine of information on Indian literature and Buddhism. I-Tsing had mastered the Vinaya Pitakas of Buddhism before he set out on his travels which lasted for twenty-five years and which covered more than thirty countries. His objective was to secure the authentic texts of the Mulasarvastivada school from India so that the erroneous views of the Chinese scholars of Vinaya Pitakas could be corrected." (Publisher's description).…