Travels of Fah-hian and Sung-yun, Buddhist Pilgrims, from China to India (400 A.d. and 518 A.d.). Translated from the Chinese by Samuel Beal. Anonymous

Publisher Marketing: Title: Travels of Fah-Hian and Sung-Yun, Buddhist pilgrims, from China to India (400 A. D. and 518 A. D.). Translated from the Chinese by Samuel Beal. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Anonymous; Beal, Samuel; 1869. lxxiii. 208 p.; 8 . 10056.bbb.29. Contributor Bio:  Beal, Samuel Samuel Beal (27 November 1825, Davenport - 20 August 1889, Greens Norton) was an Oriental scholar, and the first Englishman to translate direct from the Chinese the early records of Buddhism, thus throwing light upon Indian history. Samuel Beal was born in Davenport, near Stockport, Cheshire and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1847. He was ordained deacon in 1851, and priest in the following year. After serving as curate at Brooke in Norfolk and Sopley in Hampshire, he applied for the office of naval chaplain, and was appointed to H. M. S. Sybille during the China War of 1856-58. In 1857, he printed for private circulation a pamphlet showing that the Tycoon of Yedo (i.e. Tokugawa Shogun of Edo), with whom foreigners had made treaties, was not the real Emperor of Japan. He retired from the navy in 1877. In 1877, he was appointed professor of Chinese at University College, London. His reputation was established by his series of works which traced the travels of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims in India from the fifth to the seventh century, A. D., and by his books on Buddhism, which have become classics. Asvaghosha Bodhisattva was an Indian philosopher-poet, born in Saketa in northern India to a Brahmin family. . He was the most famous in a group of Buddhist court writers, whose epics rivalled the contemporary Ramayana.