Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
This country originally had no human inhabitants, but was occupied only by spirits and nâgas, with which merchants of various countries carried on a trade.... Through the coming and going of merchants... when they went away, the people of their various countries heard how pleasant the land was, and flocked to it in numbers till it became a great nation. -from Chapter XXXVIII: At CeylonLittle is known about the 5th-century Chinese monk Fâ-hien beyond what he himself tells us in the journals of his travels in India and Ceylon from the years 399 to 414 in search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline. But as he follows in the footsteps of the Buddh…
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Weitere Autoren: Faxian
- ISBN: 978-1-945934-68-1
- EAN: 9781945934681
- Produktnummer: 32324021
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B13.2 cm x D1.4 cm 306 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 306
Über den Autor
Scottish scholar JAMES LEGGE (1815-1897) was the first professor of Chinese language and literature at Oxford University, serving from 1876 to 1897. Among his many books are The Life and Teaching of Confucius (1867), The Religions of China (1880), and the 50-volume Sacred Books of the East (1879-1891).
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