The Travels of Fa-Hien

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A RECORD OF BUDDHISTIC KINGDOMS

Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien
of his Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414)
in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline.

Translated and annotated with a
Korean recension of the Chinese text

BY

JAMES LEGGE

1886. The Clarendon Press, Oxford.
4to. Pp. xvi, 123+ 45 with Chinese text.
With one sketch-map and 9 full page illustrations.
Original half cloth on printed boards. Consists of three parts:
the translation of F.-hien's narrative of travels;
copious notes; and the Chinese text.
The illustrations are taken from a Hang-ch.u edition of "A history of Buddha"

1899. The Clradendon Press, Oxford: Second edition.
Issued as Two parts bound in one.

1965. Paragon Book Reprint, New York: xii + 123 + 49 pp. 8vo. 9 plates.

1991, 1998. New Delhi, India: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. Illus., pp. xvi + 184

2000. Etext prepared by John Bickers, jbickers@ihug.co.nz and Dagny, dagnyj@hotmail.com

2005. Reformated from plain text to HTML for LakdivaBooks.
This HTML edition still requires contents and the Maps and Nine Illustrations from the 1886 published translation.

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