A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, Being an Account By the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of His Travels in India and Ceylon (AD 399-414)

by Legge, James

First Edition

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Book desription: Oxford: Oxford, 1886. Subtitle continued, "In Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline, translated and Annotated with a Corean Recension of the Chinese Text by James Legge". Very good pictorial yellow front cover with a nice Buddhistic temple in brown, a bit soiled but protected in a clear, mylar dustjacket. Professionally repaired edges, brown cloth spine and new endpapers. Pages xvi, 123 with index plus 44 pages of Chinese text. Very clean and tight inside with paper slightly age toned. Richard Bernstein's book, Ultimate Journey, is a retracing of the path of this Buddhist Monk crossing the deserts and mountains of Asia to seek enlightenment in Buddhist India and Ceylon. What a trip. A rare first edition in a very nice copy. . First Edition. Illus. by Color Sketch Map of Travels and 9 Full Page Plates. 8 Vo.

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