India in ancient times has encountered many foreign travellers and invaders. Shakas, Kushanas, Greeks, Persians, Huns, and Indo-Romans had conquered parts of India. Many Greek chronicle writers had written about the description of India. However, the Chinese Buddhist monks had a unique experience with India.
India in ancient times has encountered many foreign travellers and invaders. Shakas, Kushanas, Greeks, Persians, Huns, and Indo-Romans had conquered parts of India. Many Greek chronicle writers had written about the description of India. However, the Chinese Buddhist monks had a unique experience with India.
Samuel Beal (1825-1889) was an Oriental scholar and the first English person to translate Chinese sources into the English. He was appointed in 1872 to examine Buddhist Chinese books in India Office Library, London. He became a professor of Chinese Studies at University College, London in 1877. His Chinese Buddhist works on India include translations of travelogues which were composed from the fifth to seventh centuries ad, which are quite popular. His famous works comprise of Travels of Fah-Hian and Sung-Yun, Buddhist Pilgrims, from China to India (a.d. 400 and a.d. 518); The Romantic Legend of Buddha; Texts from the Buddhist Canon, Dhammapada; Buddhism in China, etc.
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* Book I Begins with the birth of Hiuen Tsiang) in Kow shi, and ends with the account of his arrival at Kau Chang 1 34 * Book II Commencing with O ki ni, and ending with Kie jo she (Kanauj) 35 84 * Book III Asangha's Ascent to Heaven his brother 85 127 * Book IV Arrives at Champa The Fairy Fruit Karnasuvarna 128 165 * Book V Nirgrantha skilled in divination The resolve to return 166 212 * Conclusion * Arrives at the capital 213 218
* Book I Begins with the birth of Hiuen Tsiang) in Kow shi, and ends with the account of his arrival at Kau Chang 1 34 * Book II Commencing with O ki ni, and ending with Kie jo she (Kanauj) 35 84 * Book III Asangha's Ascent to Heaven his brother 85 127 * Book IV Arrives at Champa The Fairy Fruit Karnasuvarna 128 165 * Book V Nirgrantha skilled in divination The resolve to return 166 212 * Conclusion * Arrives at the capital 213 218
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