A Record of the Buddhist Religion: As Practised in India and the Malay Archipelago by I-Tsing
Takakusu, J. (Tr.)
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Book ID : 10391
ISBN-10 : 81-307-0293-2 / 8130702932
ISBN-13 : 978-81-307-0293-3 / 9788130702933
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2006
Edition :
Language : English
lxiv, 240p., Tables, Index, 25 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. Regarding the non-observance of the Varsha (or Vassa, Summer retreat); 2. Behaviour towards the honoured; 3. On sitting on a small chair at dinner; 4. Distinction between pure and impure food; 5. Cleansing after meals; 6. Two jugs for keeping water; 7. The morning inspection of water as to insects; 8. Use of tooth-woods; 9. Rules about the reception at the Upavasatha-day; 10. Necessary food and clothing; 11. The mode of wearing garments; 12. Rules concerning the Nun's dress and funeral; 13. Consecrated grounds; 14. The summer-retreat of the five parishads; 15. Concerning the Pravarana day; 16. About spoons and chop-sticks; 17. Proper occasion for salutation; 18. Concerning evacuation; 19. Rules of ordination; 20. Bathing at proper times; 21. Concerning the mat to sit on; 22. Rules of sleeping and resting; 23. On the advantage of proper exercise to health; 24. Worship not mutually dependent; 25. Behaviour between teacher and pupil; 26. Conduct towards strangers or friends; 27. On symptoms of bodily illness; 28. Rules on giving medicine; 29. Hurtful medical treatment must not be practised; 30. On turning to the right in worship; 31. Rules of decorum in cleansing the sacred object to worship; 32. The ceremony of chanting; 33. An unlawful salutation; 34. The method of learning in the west; 35. The rule as to hair; 36. The arrangement of affairs after death; 37. The use of the common property of the Sangha; 38. The burning of the body is unlawful; 39. The bystanders become guilty; 40. Such actions were not practised by the virtuous of old.
DESCRIPTION
Among early Chinese Buddhist travelers to India, the names of three stand out: Fa-Hsien (340?-420; Japanese pronunciation, Kokken), Hsuan-tsang (660-664; J., Genjo), and I-Tsing (635-713; J. Gijo). Both Fa-hsien and Hsuan-tsang were able to use an overland route to India, but by the time I-tsing set out in 671 C.E. that option had been closed by the Arabs. But the detour did have a bonus: had I-Tsing been able to go directly to India, as he would have preferred, he would not have seen the Malay Archipelago and left us this unique record. The Chinese text of I-Tsing’s Nan-hai-chi-kuei-nei-fa-ch’uam (J. Nankai Kiknai hoden) is to be found in vol. 54 of the Taishno Issaikyo, T. 2125. The reader should not be put off by the fact that this is a reprint of a translation which first appeared in 1896. The translator was the famous Japanese scholar Juniro Takakusu (1866-1945), who’s Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy from the perspective of sectarian developments in Japan. The text is packed with notes, and even a sprinkling of Chinese characters, as necessary. The contents are detailed and as might be expected from the title.
