A Record of the Buddhist Religion as Practiced in India and the Malay Archipelago 

(A.D. 671-695)

  I-Tsing

I-Tsing was a Chinese Buddhist monk who, dissatisfied with Chinese interpretations of Buddhism, decided to travel to India to collect authentic Pali Buddhist texts to translate into Chinese. He travelled for 25 years before returning to China, collecting texts, learning languages and translating on his way. In this book he records his experiences of visiting scholars in present day Indonesia, the Malay Peninsula and Indochina. Very Good Hardback in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Reprint. Originally published in 1896. Translated from the original by J. Takakusu. 240 pages with an index and a fold out map. For further details please see the scanned contents page. 

Weight: 0.7 kg Post free within Malaysia

Published by  Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Delhi, 1998.

ISBN: 9788121501682

Condition: The dust jacket is rubbed at the top and base of the spine. The binding is tight, the text clear and there is very mild tanning of the pages.