1886 Fâ-Hien’s Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms in India and Ceylon by James Legge

Description: A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fâ-Hien, of His Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414), In Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline, Translated and Annotated With a Corean Recension of the Chinese Text by James Legge, M.A., LL.D. Professor of the Chinese Language and Literature. Published in Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1886, 168pp, 8 x 9", hardcover binding. In good condition with some exterior shelf-wear and internal age-related wear and mark from previous use. Some chipping and tearing to the joints, head and tail of the spine. A good deal of creasing and rubbing to the surface of the boards, only a partial wearing to the illustration on the front board. Additionally, some chipping and tearing to the edges of the boards. The previous owner's black-inked faculty stamps remain on the front and back boards. Some tea-staining to the back board. Internally, there is general age-related toning and foxing to the pastedowns, and pages. The faculty stamps continue throughout the pages, along with stray pen markings and marginalia. Included are a full-page illustrated frontispiece and plates, along with a fold-out map, in the introduction, entitled "Sketch Map of Fâ-Hien's Travels" and that measures 11 x 9". Please see our photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce 1886 folio about Faxian (337 CE-c.422 CE), also referred to as Fâ-Hien, Fa-Hsien and Sehi, was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled by foot from China to India to acquire Buddhist texts. He started his arduous journey at age 60, visited sacred Buddhist sites in Central, South, and Southeast Asia between 399-412 CE, of which 10 years were spent in India. This folio was written by James Legge (1815-1897), a Scottish linguist, missionary, sinologist, and translator who was best known as an early translator of Classical Chinese texts into English. He was also the first professor of Chinese at Oxford University from 1876-1897. This specific book once resided in the prestigious library of language scholar Johannes Rahder (1898-1988). Rahder was a Dutch Orientalist and professor of Japanese at the University of Leiden from 1931 through 1946, and at Yale University from 1947 through 1965. He was depicted in the work of the legendary Langston Hughes' (1901-1967) 'I Wonder, I Wander'. After a brief meeting between the two figures on the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1933, Hughes recognized Rahder as being a "...famous authority on obscure Oriental languages". Rahder's blue-inked Yale University faculty stamp and pen markings can be found throughout this folio. FORN-SHELF-672-0324-eb0629

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