BUDDHISM

In 16 Volumes

The Life of Hiuen-Tsiang

Samuel Beal

Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World Vol I
Samuel Beal

Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World Vol II
Samuel Beal

Texts from the Buddhist Canon

Samuel Beal

The Life or Legend of Gaudama Vol I
P Bigandet

The Life or Legend of Gaudama Vol II
P Bigandet

The Life of Gotama the Buddha

EH Brewster

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

The Milinda-Questions

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

XIV

XV

The Life of the Buddha

Mrs Rhys Davids

Buddhist Birth Stories

TW Rhys Davids

Life and Works of Alexander Csoma de Körös
Theodore Duka

Early Buddhist Monachism

Sukumar Dutt

Chinese Buddhism

Joseph Edkins

A Manual of Buddhist Philosophy

William Montgomery McGovern

Udânavarga

W Woodville Rockhill

SI-YU-KI

BUDDHIST RECORDS OF
THE WESTERN WORLD

TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE OF HIUEN TSIANG (A.D. 629)

First published in 1884 by
Trübner & Co Ltd

Reprinted in 2000 by
Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

Printed and Bound in Great Britain

1884 Samuel Beal

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Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World
ISBN 0-415-24469-2
Buddhism: 16 Volumes
ISBN 0-415-24286-X
Trübner's Oriental Series

ISBN 0-415-23188-4

TRANSLATEd from the chinese
OF HIUEN TSIANG (A.D. 629).

BY

SAMUEL BEAL,

B.A. (TRIN. COL. CAMB.), R.N. (Retired chaplain and n.i.), proFESSOR OF CHINESE,
UNIVERSITY College, London; RECTOR OF WARK, NORTHUMBERLAND, &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL.

1884.

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